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 […]
Live Event: Uli Jon Roth, St Silin’s Church, Llansilin, June 21st, 2019
“Bloody hell!” Probably not the best 2 words to begin a review…especially a review based on an incredible live event held in a church! However, those were the words that immediately fell from my mouth when I discovered a few weeks ago that Uli Jon Roth was playing a special one of a kind charity […]
Music and me
Just a small article about music and the reasons why I love it. Music has always been a big part of my life, from my first radio cassette tape player when I was 13 and recording the top 30 hits every Sunday morning on blank tapes and trying to hit that pause button before the […]
Review: Voodoo Man
Blu-ray & DVD: Voodoo Man (1944) Dr. Marlowe (Bela Lugosi) has grieved over the death of his wife for 22 years, but instead of visiting her grave with flowers and kind words, he has her (still perfectly formed) body in the basement of his house, where he attempts to bring her back to life by […]
Review: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Based on the novel by of the same name by Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne was the final film to be made by director Jack Clayton. It’s 1950’s Belfast and Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith giving one of the best performances I’ve ever seen from her…see also The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie […]
Review: Arcade Club, Leeds
Well this was a pleasant surpise..Rewind a bit. Now I am not a young man, true I am not a fossil of humanity riddled with dust but nor am I a sprightly young buck. Due to being this age I can remember arcades though, proper ones. Well sort of. I am not talking about the […]
Review: Lolita
Lolita (1995) is Vladimir Nabokov’s most famous book, and is also, arguably, one of the most controversial pieces of literature throughout modern history. To summarise the plot of this novel the protagonist, Humbert Humbert, falls in love with 12-year-old Dolores Haze aka Lolita. The novel follows Humbert’s story about his love for Lolita and everything […]
First Impressions – Detroit: Become Human
This is not a full review as I’m still playing through the game. It’s more a first impression of the game. Detroit Become Human is the latest game from Quantic Dreams, and after their previous games, I think they have finally got it spot on. The game is centred around three playable characters. All three […]
