In 2019 Martin Scorsese said to Empire Magazine that he doesn't go to see Marvel movies and thus doesn't go to see them. But the way in which he phrased this - "I tried, you know. But that's not cinema" - proved to be one of the most controversial things said within the mainstream movie... Continue Reading →
The uncreatively named Loki is the third Marvel show to air on Disney Plus. Honestly it had some heavy lifting to do, since WandaVision, quirky as it was, gave up on it's unique premise by the end of it's season and Falcon and the Winter Soldier just turned out to be generic. So, did Loki... Continue Reading →
Age of Empires 2 is a real time strategy game that released in 1999 that is, to this day, alive and kicking with an active online community. In it you take control of a historical civilisation and guide it from the depths of the dark ages into a highly advanced imperial age through the assertion... Continue Reading →
The Phantom Menace is a movie that has long held many different positions in my heart. As a kid I loved it, as a teenager I hated it and as an adult I thought it was so bad it was good. Then, just the other day, about two-three years since my last viewing, I got... Continue Reading →
DOOM Eternal is a game that you turn on and think "okay, it's time to kill some demons", and get killed by demons instead. This is something that will continue to happen repeatedly until you decide to take it seriously and adapt to the changes it has made from DOOM 2016. Personally, I thought DOOM... Continue Reading →
Okay, I admit it... I'm not a fan of zombie movies. For me personally, the idea of a zombie apocalypse is an inherently silly one. Time and time again zombies are depicted as feral beasts who are a force of nature, but who can quite easily be outsmarted and exploited by even small groups of... Continue Reading →
PrologueThe year is 2009. A primary school teacher has just asked a bunch of nose pickers to please return all pencils to to the pencil box at the centre of each table. At the end of the day, only about two have actually made it back. The underpaid teacher, who paid for those pencils for... Continue Reading →
One of the most peculiar games ever made, to my mind, is Life is Strange due to the simple fact that it's individual elements are, when isolated, are nothing noteworthy, but when working together produce a game that is rather captivating. It took the format of a choice based adventure game, borrowing greatly from the... Continue Reading →
Trying to watch this film was a nightmare. I initially found two cuts of it and those were the theatrical and directors cut. To my surprise, although it added never before seen footage, the directors cut was actually shorter than the theatrical cut by a handful of minutes. So I decided to do some research... Continue Reading →
