Video Game Movie Review – Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) – What a Carrey On
Sonic the Hedgehog is the single earliest memory I have of playing a video game and I’ve always carried a fondness for the Blue Blur. Despite some iffy games in […]
Season of Bond – You Only Live Twice (1967) – Turning Japanese…literally…
007’s fifth motion picture outing, You Only Live Twice, is a perfectly fine Bond movie that has some rather difficult aging issues. On one hand it stays true to the […]
Video Games.
These days it seems like there’s a lot of negativity around video games, despite the fact that they’ve never been bigger in our collective culture. Everywhere you go you can find people from all walks of life who enjoy sitting down in their spare time and spending some time in whatever game they have on at the moment (for me […]
WWE Men’s Royal Rumble 2020 Simulation – WWE 2K20 (PS4)
It’s Rumble time! We have all the inside scoops on tonight’s Royal Rumble match. Who will make their big return? Who will eliminate the most wrestlers? Who will main event Wrestlemania? And more importantly, who booked this stuff? Cos they are a genius.
Season of Bond – Film Review – Thunderball (1965) – Anyway, here’s Thunderball…
And after aaaaaaaaaallll, you’re my Thunderbaaaallll… Which was the first words that came out of my flatmate when I told him I was about to watch the fourth James Bond […]
Season of Bond – FILM REVIEW – Goldfinger (1964) – The Gold Standard?
Dr. No laid down the blueprint, From Russia with Love finely tuned the formula and then came Goldfinger to truly set in stone what a James Bond movie is. The […]
Judging the Super Smash Brothers Ultimate DLC Characters (Based on My Initial Thoughts)
What’s the best part about a new Smash Bros character coming out? It’s not actually playing as this new well designed super fun character, no no no. It’s the reveal […]
Season of Bond – FILM REVIEW – From Russia With Love (1963) – A SPECTRE-ular Film
Dr. No was the blueprint for what a Bond movie would become, but From Russia With Love is the final product. Retaining all the best parts of its predecessor while […]
Season of Bond: FILM REVIEW: Dr. No (1962)
James Bond’s cinematic debut, Dr. No, was the film that launched a multi-billion, multimedia and multi-decade franchise, which is still going strong nearly sixty years later. So, being the first […]
Pokémon Direct – 01/09/2020 – Pokémon Mystery Dungeon and Sword/Shield Expansion Pass
Pokémon Sword and Shield are barely two months old yet Nintendo aren’t resting on their laurels just yet so to all the Laurels out there breathe easy. They announced a […]
The Blake Awards 2019!
They say that when you play the Games, you live or you die. Frankly, I think it’s a bit over the top that they added the feature to actually die […]
The Stu Awards 2019 – Celebrating the Best Games of the Year Of Which He Actually Played This Year
GOOD EVENING FOLKS and welcome to The Stu Awards 2019! Two thousand and nineteen was a year of two halves for me. The first half of the year felt like […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003)
What happens when a mediocre film gets a sequel? Most of the time you get forgettable garbage – albeit the kind of film that you might see on TV quite […]
Pokémon Sword (Switch) – Oh I Say, A Jolly Good Return to Form, Mate
The Great Pokémon Controversy of 2019 threatened to overshadow the release of Sword/Shield – at least on Twitter. The non-inclusion of over half of the pre-existing Pokémon, or Dexit as […]
XtA’s Video Game Movie Festival – Tekken (2009) – Probably Not the Worst Film About Iron Fisting
I love Tekken. If there is one arcade-style fighting series I actually like and have even a small percentage of knowledge about how to win (I boast a 35% win […]
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered – Squall & Rinoa’s Bonkers’ Adventure is still super fun
Final Fantasy VIII is one of the best RPGs on the PS1 – having to follow the phenomenon of VII was no mean feat yet through some experimental gameplay ideas, […]
