A little while ago I reviewed Robocop and started the review with a little joke about how much has already been said about it and how hard it was for me to find something new to add, or how to write stuff you might have read elsewhere in a way that only I could. Fight... Continue Reading →
Ex Machina is another AI think piece that hits all the usual notes you'd expect from such a film: "Do robots have feelings?", "Can robots become like humans?", "Is it ethical to create conscious machines, and if so what the heck do we do with them?" As such it can be easy to dismiss Ex... Continue Reading →
I have a soft spot in my heart for coming of age movies, even though I feel the genre is quite dependant on the interpretation of life events, at a young age, by the writer/director more than any other. I mean you can say a lot of action movies are the same, but there's a... Continue Reading →
The Five Nights at Freddy's movie is a big steaming pile of- The Five Nights at Freddy's movie is a stinking lump of- The Five Nights at Freddy's movie is a gigantic hunk of horse- No, what the Five Nights at Freddy's movie is, is a failure. Based on the first 3 Five Nights at... Continue Reading →
You ever get bored and watch fight scenes from movies on YouTube? I don't know if it's just a me thing, but that's something I sometimes do. I might watch Captain America fight the Winter Soldier for 3 minutes, or James Bond punch Jaws in the chin and shake his fist in pain. Godzilla x... Continue Reading →
Shadows of Doubt is a procedurally generated detective game where you play as a retired detective in a randomised city layout where you can take police jobs, illegal theft and assault jobs, and solve randomly generated murders. The setting is the late 20th century where the industrial revolution never really stopped, resulting in global warming... Continue Reading →
What else is there to say about Robocop that hasn't already been said? Probably not a lot. So let me just get the shorthand list of things most people seem to agree on out of the way: Surprisingly emotional premise, good satire, addictive hyper-violence, has mostly aged well. But no, we're not ending the review... Continue Reading →
Hello, dear readers. Today we're talking about shlock. Good shlock. Bad shlock. All things schlocky. I use the term "shlock" a lot in my reviews, and sometimes I enjoy these types of films a lot because of how committed to being bad they are. And sometimes I dislike them because they either go too far,... Continue Reading →
Here we are again. This time we're playing Island of Fire, which is from the base game. The objective is to kill a group of 40 Arch Devils on a lava island. The map has a mini-narrative about the Devils planning to invade the mainland, so your quest to kill them is like a pre-emptive... Continue Reading →
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