Before Michael Bay spent a gazillion dollars on the Transformers franchise he made a series of somewhat clichéd action movies, but the one that has always stuck out for me is Bad Boys (his first feature film). Give Bay a relatively small budget and a paper thin plot (two cops bust drug dealers and cop [...]
Alan Wake has been a long time coming for me. Given that its major influences are Stephen King (my favourite author), The X-Files (my favourite television show of all time) and Twin Peaks along with a smattering of Lost for good measure, this is the game that could have been designed just for me. After [...]
If certain web forum trends are to be believed then once every few years people who play videogames a lot (or have done for a long time) usually tend to go through an occasional “why do I do this?” phase. Of course I’m no expert on this particular subject, or any other for that matter, [...]
Square Enix is the latest in a relatively short line of Japanese videogame companies who have been aggressively acquiring Western studios to expand their portfolio of titles, and perhaps more importantly customer numbers. If you had told me a year ago that I would have played three Square Enix published games in the space of [...]
John pondered holding up a boombox to save the world Hollywood has a large number of easy targets for vitriol such as Jerry Bruckheimer or Michael Bay who produce loud, visually stunning movies that are devoid of any quality story or character development. As many people sagely state “Michael Bay likes blowing sh*t up!”, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It only seems like five minutes ago I reviewed The Da Vinci Code’s Blu-ray outing as Angels & Demons received its theatrical release. Now, never ones to miss a cross-promotion opportunity, Sony provides the BD release of Robert Langdon’s second theatrical outing just as Dan Brown’s latest cash cow is about to hit book retailers [...]
A short while ago I wrote a post entitled Death of the Cinema, where I talked about how the movie going experience has been somehwat lost to me recently. Rising ticket costs and the fact that the sound and picture quality, combined with the fact I have to do at least a forty mile round [...]
