Review: New Star Manager
You may well have heard on our interview show with Kevin Toms that I was addicted to Football Manager on the Spectrum 48k back in 1982. This obsession with football management games reached its peak with ‘Premier Manager 98’, a series I always preferred over the ‘Championship Manager’ games (before it then went on to […]
Review: Day of the Panther / Strike of the Panther
Blu-ray: Day of the Panther / Strike of the Panther (1988) Director Brian Trenchard-Smith (see my review of his awesome movie ‘The Man From Hong Kong‘) once again delivers onscreen action mayhem with this ‘Panther’ double bill. Day of the Panther and its sequel Strike of the Panther, tell the story of martial arts expert, […]
Review: The Munsters Scary Little Christmas
DVD: The Munsters Scary Little Christmas (1996) “The Munsters or The Addams Family?“ A question often asked in my school playground back in the 1970’s, and one that is still asked by people today. For the record, my answer was always The Munsters, though I enjoyed them both. Herein lies my problem when watching The […]
First Impressions: PSVR
I’ve been banging on about PSVR on my blog for ages and it’s another one of my latest obsessions. If you know me well enough you know that I go through a lot of gadgets. “Monkey see, monkey wants“, that’s me. I’ve owned so many versions of consoles over the years that I’m afraid to […]
Review: The Contra Anniversary Collection
Let me make things clear from the start of this review. Konami are responsible for making some of my all-time favourite video games! My childhood was filled with days playing titles such as Batman Returns, Green Beret, TMNT: Turtles in Time, and Sunset Riders to name a few. Let’s be honest, I could list dozens of […]
Review: American Horror Project Vol. 2
Blu-ray: American Horror Project Vol. 2 Following on from American Horror Project Vol. 1 which was released back in 2016, Arrow Films have unearthed and restored 3 more obscure American horror movies which have more than likely flown under peoples movie radar until now. The superbly packaged box set contains Dream No Evil (1970), Dark […]
Review: Chernobyl
Blu-ray/DVD/Digital: Chernobyl (2019) The world was a very different place indeed back in 1986. There was no World Wide Web, social media involved passing fanzines around friends, and if you wanted to take video or photographs of something, then you sure as hell had better be prepared to carry around the correct equipment all the […]
Review: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Can a video game featuring psychosis and mental health at the core of its story treat the subject matter respectfully yet also be entertaining? I’ve had my eye on Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice since 2015. I attended a presentation at Eurogamer Expo (EGX) featuring developer Ninja Theory. Commercial Director Dominic Matthews chatted about their vision for […]
Review: Flying Tigers
Blu-ray & DVD: Flying Tigers (1942) John Wayne is synonymous with riding the range on a horse and chasing the bad guys, so it was initially a shock to see him as Capt. Jim Gordon, squadron leader of ‘The Flying Tigers’: an American volunteer group who fought the Japanese in China before America’s entry into […]
Review: The Running Man
Blu-ray & DVD: The Running Man (1987) It’s difficult to remember sci-fi being a seriously fun genre, even more difficult for someone born during the mid-90s. There is definitely sci-fi comedy, sure, but examples of sci-fi that isn’t an all-out comedy having fun with the endless capabilities of the genre seem few and far between what withall […]