Cinema: Spectre (2015) Daniel Craig returns for possibly the final time as suave super spy James Bond, but does Spectre leave you shaken and stirred or is 007 losing his licence to thrill? I promise those will be the last Bond related puns in this review! The movie follows on from Skyfall where MI6 and […]
Blu-ray: Eaten Alive (1976) How do you follow up The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? A movie that is widely regarded as one of the best horror films ever made. A movie that still terrifies to this day with its depiction of cruelty, despair and shocking violence. In a era of found footage horror films, Texas Chainsaw Massacre still […]
Blu-ray: Sabotage (1996) Sabotage opens with a tense assault in war torn Bosnia. Mark Dacascos is Mark Bishop, a tough special forces operative who is attempting to rescue a group of hostages before they are brutally executed. Things don’t go according to plan and we cut to three years later where Dacascos has been dishonourably […]
Blu-ray: Crazy Six (1997) I like Rob Lowe, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles and Burt Reynolds so I was quite looking forward to watching Crazy Six. My thoughts after watching the movie are where did it all go wrong? Rob Lowe and his crew steal a bunch of money from gangster Ice-T. Mario Van Peebles plays […]
Eurogamer Expo is one of the largest exhibitions showcasing the latest video games. It gives members of the public an opportunity to get their hands on all manner of titles from small indie developers to the big AAA games. I’ve been going to EGX for the past few years but the main difference being that this year […]
Zombies Ate My Neighbours Released: 1994 Platform: Super Nintendo Publisher: Konami Developer: LucasArts What do you get when you cross Science Fiction and Horror Movies with video games? The answer is one of the best games to appear on consoles from the 90’s. Zombies Ate My Neighbours caused a bit of a stink when it was […]
Robocop versus The Terminator Released: 1993 Platform: Sega Megadrive Publisher: Virgin Interactive Developer: Virgin Interactive Feverish fanboys have often debated which of their favourite characters would win in a fight; Freddy vs Jason, Alien vs Predator, we’ve all done it at some point in our lives. The upcoming movie version of Batman vs Superman shows […]
Desert Strike Released: 1992 Platform: Sega Megadrive Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Electronic Arts Video games sometimes blur the lines between fiction and reality, or at the very least they can take inspiration from the current events of the day. It’s hard to conceive that games would be released based on wars that are still being […]
The Amiga celebrated its 30th anniversary recently so what better way to honour this amazing machine than by taking a look at Commodore Amiga: A Visual Compendium. The Amiga was a huge part of my teenage years and gaming in general. It was my second home computer, the first being the Spectrum 48k and although […]
This is quite possibly the strangest review I’ve written to date. I’m a bit drunk, eating a bowl of chilli and sat wearing a t-shirt that says, “you awake to find yourself in a dark room”. Yes folks, I’ve spent an evening in the company of stand up comedy John Robertson. Let me give you […]
