Review: Along the Edge
‘Along the Edge’ is a visual novel set in the European countryside, where your choices impact the main character’s personality and appearance. The game begins with our protagonist, Daphné Delatour, inheriting a huge manor house out in the countryside from her grandmother that she never met. It is from here that players can chose our […]
Review: Blood and Money
Digital HD & DVD: Blood and Money (2020)John Barr’s debut feature film Blood and Money casts Tom Berenger as a lone ageing hunter living in a camper van roaming the snowy wilds in America looking for an elusive buck to shoot.Quite early on it’s revealed that Berenger’s character Jim Reed is ill, and possibly dying as he […]
Review: Happy Gilmore
Blu-ray: Happy Gilmore (1996)Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) wants to be an ice hockey player but…he can’t skate and his temper tends to ruin any chance he has of being successful either in sport and love.After his girlfriend leaves him, he finds out his granny owes a shit ton of money to the IRS and has […]
Review: Air Missions: Hind
Air Missions: HIND is an action combat flight simulator based on the Russian Mi-24 Hind assault helicopter, also known as the ‘Flying Tank’, and covers fifteen missions based on fictional conflicts across four different environments: Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Arctic Ocean and Southeast Asia. Taking advantage of the tutorial section (a must for anyone playing […]
Review: Art of Rally
We’ve been quite lucky with racing games in 2020. First off there was the release of the awesome Hotshot Racing, and now we are treated to the excellent Art of Rally. The big question is, can it take pole position from my favourite top down racer Mantis Burn Racing?The first thing to strike me about […]
Review: Mafia – Definitive Edition
The old saying of “time flies as you get older” certainly holds true, as it seems like only a handful of years ago that I was living the life of Thomas “Tommy” Angelo and running errands for Don Salieri in the video game world of Mafia on my PS2.Now, a quite staggering (and frightening!) 16 […]
Review: Griefhelm
The fighting genre has been one of the cornerstones of videogames, and remains hugely popular to this day. Even though it was over 30 years ago, I still remember being enthralled by the likes of Way of the Exploding Fist, Yie Ar Kung Fu, and Barbarian. Don’t get me wrong, I loved beat-em ups like […]
Review: The Dare
Digital HD & DVD: The Dare (2019)I can’t say too much about The Dare without giving away any of the narrative twists that occur while viewing. What I can say though is if you’re a fan of “torture porn” movies in the same (bloody) vein as Hostel and Saw, then you’ll feel right at home watching […]
Review: Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman
DVD: Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman (2000)I originally reviewed Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman in March 2019, when it was released as a double bill alongside Alvin and the Chipmunks meet Frankenstein. To be honest, my opinion hasn’t really changed much from last year. The one big difference is my daughter […]
Review: I Spit on Your Grave – The Complete Collection
Blu-ray & DVD: I Spit on Your Grave – The Complete Collection (1978 – 2019) Back in the “video nasty” days here in the UK, owning a copy of the 1978 movie I Spit on Your Grave could get you a fine and possibly even a prison sentence…I remember at one point actually dreading knocks […]