Television: Game of Thrones (2011 – ) How Game of Thrones broke the internet. If anything ‘broke the internet’ it definitely was NOT Kim (who?) Kardashian’s arse, it was the last episode of Game of Thrones. No point saying ‘beware spoilers!’ as if you haven’t seen it by now, and you’re a fan, where the […]
Love it or loathe it E3 is a huge deal for gamers around the world. It is a chance for companies such as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo to preview their up and coming games for the future. Of course in this digital age it’s increasingly difficult to keep things secret but there are always one […]
Cinema: Jurassic World (2015) Sat in the ‘sweet spot’ at my new local IMAX 3D cinema, I’m shaking with excitement as I awaited what I hoped would be the ultimate summer blockbuster. But not just me; hundred’s more and millions more around the world whom many of 20yrs ago sat in a cinema wide-eyed as […]
DVD: The Protector (1985) As the camera sweeps across the desolate streets of New York City, Mad Max styled street punks attempt to rob a truck driver that has ended up on the wrong side of the tracks, but we are not in some futuristic nightmare; we are, strangely, in a Jackie Chan film. The Protector […]
Blu-ray: Society (1989) Billy (Billy Warlock) doesn’t really fit in with his rich family, his Mom and Dad prefer his sister, so he resorts to seeing a psychiatrist to try and make sense of his feelings of not fitting in. Hearing a tape recording of his sister’s coming out party, he believes that something very strange is going […]
I reviewed The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in Pixels Volume 1 a little while ago. You can read what I thought about that book here. Volume 2 continues with the same amount of love for the subject matter, attention to detail and massively high standards set in the first book. Volume 2 is […]
Multi-Format: Outlast. Survival horror games are often considered by video game publishers as a risk. Maybe it’s because they are a niche market or because generally speaking they are aimed at adults rather than a mainstream audience. However the recent clamour for P.T. and the success of The Evil Within should mean that horror games […]
Dynamite Dux Released: 1989 Platform: Sega Master System Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Sometimes video games are just plain weird. Take for example Dynamite Dux; you play as a blue duck (obviously) who wears bright red boots and punches enemies such as limbless dogs, a cat on roller skates, a bazooka toting fox and a pig […]
Blu-ray: Double Dragon (1994) Ahhh….the 90’s. Almost feels like yesterday when movies based on video games were the hottest property in movieland. Superhero films were still a rarity, aside from the odd blockbuster, so the big screen hero’s were found in arcade machines or 8 & 16 bit consoles. From 101 Films comes 1994’s Double Dragon on Blu-ray […]
VOD: The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015) Writer/Director Tom Six came to prominence with the movie watching public when The Human Centipede (First Sequence) came crawling and gagging onto our screens in 2009. He followed this up in 2011 with The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) which took a darker (in both visuals and narrative) look […]