Four years after its original release on the WiiU, Lego City Undercover finally makes its way to PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch. The WiiU gamepad was maligned by many, and even Nintendo barely used its features towards the end of the consoles life cycle. However, there are some examples where the gamepad was […]
Blu-ray and DVD: Property is No Longer a Theft (1973) Total (Flávio Bucci) is a lowly bank teller, living in borderline poverty with his father who was a bank teller before him. Total is frustrated by the way that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is exemplified by The Butcher (Ugo […]
Operation Wolf Released: 1991 Platform: Sega Master System Publisher: Sega Developer: Taito Looking back, I had a strange fascination with guns when I was a child. Watching movies like Commando and Rambo: First Blood Part 2 at the age of 10 probably didn’t help with my obsession with all things that go bang. I know […]
Blu-ray & DVD: The Front (1976) Howard Prince (Woody Allen) works as a cash register, running bets, losing money and in the words of his own brother, is a bum. His friend Alfred Miller (Michael Murphy) is a television writer who has recently been blacklisted as being a communist sympathiser. Alfred approaches Howard and offers […]
TransBot Released: 1986 Platform: Sega Master System Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega If there was an award for a game that wasn’t afraid to hide its influences, to a point where it would face legal action nowadays for copyright infringement, then TransBot would win hands down. Released in 1986 (probably to capitalise on the release of […]
Live Event: Disney on Ice: 100 Years of Magic Venue: Genting Arena, Birmingham Date:12th April 2017 I’m going to try and avoid using the word spectacular too often in this review but, it’s going to be difficult as Disney on Ice: 100 Years of Magic was truly spectacular! My family and I have been to […]
Chris chats about the Magnolia soundtrack album and reveals why it’s such a personal album to him. Thank you for listening and if you enjoy any of the songs played in these shows, please support the artists by buying their music. If you leave a comment on the YouTube video below, please mention that the 60 […]
Z-Exemplar I’ve said many times before (but I’ll say it again) that the ZX Spectrum is an incredibly important part of my life. It was my first home computer and many an hour was spent playing some wonderful games that I still remember some 35 years after my dad brought home my shiny ZX Spectrum […]
DVD & Blu-ray: Bird on a Wire (1990) Rick Jarmin (Mel Gibson) has spent the last 15 years in witness protection, moving from job to job, never staying long in one place for fear of being seen by the former agents whom he helped put in jail. A chance encounter with the woman he loved […]
The inaugural episode in a new format of shows from us entitled ‘Soundcheck’, has Chris behind the mic and chatting about the 1994 album The Mind’s Eye by Stiltskin. In this series of ‘bitesize’ shows (we intended to keep them around 20 – 30 minutes in length) we will be chatting about albums that are […]
