I enjoy racing games and have done so for many years. Although they aren’t my favourite genre of videogame, I like to get behind the wheel of a virtual car and burn some rubber as much as the next person. If you ever speak to me about racing games, you will definitely hear me talk […]
DVD: Small Soldiers (1998) When a toy company gets taken over by a megalomanic new owner, 2 of its employees are tasked with creating a new line of toys that will dominate the market. Pushed for time and under constant pressure from the new boss, protocols are ignored and state of the art military computer […]
True confession time: I’ve never watched the Peaky Blinders TV series, so can’t comment on its use of characters or franchise storylines within this game. With that out of the way, let’s get onto the review. Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is a strategy game set across 10 levels, where you control a variety of characters to […]
VOD: DTF (2020) Some of my favourite documentaries are the ones that initially drew me in with their subject matter and then made unexpected (and usually very dark) tuns which left me open mouthed and exclaiming “WTF!?” (an acronym I do know the meaning of). A prime example being Abducted in Plain Sight, which myself and […]
To the few obsessives in the know, Richard Marks (Never to be confused with Richard Marx), had carved his name into the Southern Soul Monument when he died in 2006. His output confined to the obscure but legendary labels such as Tuska, Shout and Free Spirit. A compilation of his work Never Satisfied was posthumously […]
Good things CAN come out of bad situations. The Iguana was recorded remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic by the all-star BT ALC Big Band. Trumpet maestro Alex Lee-Clark and trombonist Brian Thomas lead the gang of hep-cats through a classic piece of funked up Mod Jazz. Be careful if you play this in the car, the […]
A few years ago, I was complaining to someone about how bad the controls were when I was playing a videogame. I can’t remember the exact game, but that doesn’t really matter. The person I was chatting to said, “go and play QWOP and then complain about controls.” Seeing this as a personal challenge, I […]
The Captain (German: Der Hauptmann) filmed in black and white, made in 2017 and directed by Robert Schwentke, is a film that you think is going to go one way, and hits you over the heads and goes the other. It tells the true story of German war criminal Willi Herold, who assumed the stolen identity of a German […]
Long gone are the days where I used to play golf, but thankfully my even longer history with playing golf in video games continues, and the latest game to have me putting (no pun intended) on my virtual plus fours and hitting the greens (or missing them entirely!) is PGA Tour 2K21, built upon the […]
Blu-ray: The Deep (1977)David Saunders (Nick Nolte) and Gail Burke (Jaqueline Bisset) scuba dive while on holiday together in Bermuda. During the dive Gail finds an ampule of something and David finds a barnacle-encrusted pendant. They seek the advice of resident treasure hunter Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) on the origin of the pendant, and on […]