• 12 of 12 V – February 2010

    We begin this months 12 of 12 (created by scriptwriter and all-round good guy Chad Darnell) with a note to everyone else who participates but isn’t on Twitter, Facebook, et al to ask you all to send a huge amount of love to our girl Janelle in Australia who has had a rather…difficult month and [...]

  • Blu-ray Review: Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

    It is taken as a given that Pixar are the rightful rulers of CG Animated Movieland(TM) and despite numerous imitations none of the other studios can replicate their magical formula.  Dreamworks continue to cram as many pop culture references as is humanly possible into their outings, and previous Sony titles have been a trifle insipid [...]

  • Blu-ray Review: The Taking of Pelham 123

    The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (henceforth to be referred to as Pelham in this review) is something of an oddball movie because at times it isn’t sure quite what it’s meant to be.  Is it an action movie, thriller, character piece?  More on that in a moment.
    This re-imagining (which is Hollywood’s latest word [...]

  • Here We Go Again…

    Yes, I did flip the image so the text would show!
    I’ve performed yet another blog u-turn with this site.
    I know I said it was going…again.  I wasn’t going to continue…again.  Haven’t got enough time to continue….blah blah de blah.  Sorry.  I’ll hang my head a little bit but hopefully my loyal readers (yes there are [...]

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Musings For A Lazy Sunday

Musings For A Lazy Sunday

I’m on another one of my life laundry/declutter your existence rambles today.
Since taking a step off the seemingly never ending treadmill of day to day living for a short while everything has seemed so…so….quiet.  You know what it is like sometimes, one hundred and one thoughts racing through your mind and barely enough time to [...]

Time On My Hands

Time On My Hands

I feel a little bit like a mouse running around in a wheel inside a cage at the moment, the subject of some great experiment.  The experiment would be titled something like “Give Someone Who Never Has Time All The Time In The World”.
As I have previously mentioned, I have just parted company with my [...]

Gaming Conformity vs Reality

Gaming Conformity vs Reality

Like many other people I tend to purchase new media on day one.  A new game is coming out?  Preorder from Amazon or Game.  Much of this is enforced by the wonders of the preorder.  Buy from X and get an exclusive code to unlock something.  Do it in one of those old fashioned brick [...]

Lightbringer, Book Publishing & Other Stories

Lightbringer, Book Publishing & Other Stories

Sometimes writing blog posts is easy, I just sit down in front of the WordPress editor and I’m away.  Other times (like now) it is a painful process that could only be made more unpleasant by being presented with a large bill at the end whether I’ve written something or not.
Perhaps it could be something [...]

Bayonetta: Inspired Insanity

Bayonetta: Inspired Insanity

For the past few years there have been numerous articles written in countless magazines, on gaming web sites and blogs about the state of the Japanese gaming industry.  Where once Japanese companies, games and studios ruled the roost, now we find some of the largest players in the electronic entertainment business are from the US [...]

12 of 12 V – January 2010

Amazingly we are now into the fifth year of 12 of 12, it doesn’t seem possible!  But this is an extra special year, as it is the final year that creator, host and all round nice guy Chad Darnell will be hosting. So I will do my very best to get all twelve done this [...]

New Media Arrives

New Media Arrives

Thanks to the excessively cold temperatures this past week we went without any post until yesterday when this bumper crop arrived.  To be honest I’m amazed it all came at once
Planet Terror and Crank 2 were from the Play.com sale (£9.99 each, the only non-digital sale items I bought this..no wait..last year) and Bayonetta was [...]

SNOW DAY (and a half)

SNOW DAY (and a half)

All of my friends around the world who are used to dealing with snow and ice regularly are more than welcome to point, laugh, giggle and perhaps even guffaw right now.
Yes, England isn’t particularly good when it comes to handling snow.  Winter tyres on cars?  Nope because we roughly seem to get two or three [...]

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