Review: Before We Leave
If you’ve ever wanted to get into some video game world building and the likes of Cities: Skylines or the Civilisation series were too complicated for you, or maybe at the other end of the gaming complexity, you found Islanders too simplistic, then Before We Leave could well be the game you are looking for.The […]
Review: Shawscope Volume One (Limited Edition)
Hong Kong’s film industry in the 1960s was dominated by Shaw Brothers (the studio founded by real-life brothers Run Run and Runme Shaw), but as the 60s turned into the 70s, other studios began to attract a slice of their audience.Undeterred by this new competition, Shaw Brothers upped their game even more and released hundreds […]
Review: Lawn Mowing Simulator – Ancient Britain DLC
After being pleasantly surprised with Lawn Mowing Simulator (review here), I was very much looking forward to jumping back onto my favourite mower for the new Ancient Britain DLC.There are no new huge additions to the gameplay; no Battle Royale mode where you’re mowing an ever decreasing garden space against other mowers, or no ‘capture […]
Review: Beyond a Steel Sky
Set 10 years after the 1994 game ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’, you are once again placed into the shoes of Robert Foster and have to revisit Union City to try and track down some children after a mysterious machine kidnaps them.A huge graphical upgrade from its predecessor (no surprise there after an almost 30 year […]
Review: ‘Cotton 100%’ & ‘Panorama Cotton’
In my recent review of Gynoug I said despite playing many videogames over the past 40 years, I haven’t played everything that has ever been released. So, I look forward to playing something retro that I’ve never played before. So, like buses, along come Cotton 100% and Panorama Cotton for me to check out.Before I […]
Review: My Stepmother is an Alien
Blu-ray: My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)Widowed astronomer Steve Mills (Dan Aykroyd) pushes the limits of a work experiment too far (way too far), with the unexpected result being a race of highly advanced aliens sending one of their own down to Earth to investigate what has caused the sudden cosmic disruption.Watching television transmissions to […]
Review: Mae West in Hollywood, 1932-43
Blu-ray: Mae West in Hollywood (1932-43)I’m betting that the words “Come up and see me sometime” was the first thing that went through your mind when you saw the title of this review, and to be honest with you, that would have been the same for me too before sitting down with this limited edition blu-ray […]
Review: Gynoug
As many of our listeners/readers will know, videogames have been part of my life for around 40 years. As I’m sure you can imagine I’ve played my fair share in that time, but I always look forward to trying something “retro” which I haven’t played before. This brings me onto Gynoug (AKA Wings of Wor) […]
Review: The Last Matinee
Blu-ray: The Last Matinee (2020)Set in 1993 (so no get outs of using a mobile phone to call for help), this homage to slasher/giallo movies of the past has a handful of characters trapped in a large movie theatre as a killer moves around unnoticed (at least for a little while), picking them off one […]
Review: The Last Broadcast
Blu-ray: The Last Broadcast (1998)Before The Blair Witch Project took the “found footage” genre into the mainstream, there was The Last Broadcast; shot on consumer level video equipment, with a budget that wouldn’t cover the cost of 1 days catering on a mainstream movie.Looking like a low budget television documentary (bordering on ‘mockumentary’) about the […]