[column size=one_half position=first ] Today it is hard to believe there was once not such a thing as reality TV. The genre has been around in some form for nearly as long as television, but mostly took the form of documentaries or talent shows. Reality TV as we know it today got its big break in 1999 with Big Brother, …
[column size=one_half position=first ] The post-apocalypse comes in many forms. You get the dystopian future stuff (Akira, Equilibrium, 1984), the Machine Dawn (Terminator, The Matrix), Extinction (Planet of the Apes), Disease (28 Days Later) and Invasion (Oblivion). But the image it conjures today is inevitably batsh** biker hell-hole, where we are all shanking each other for the last bottle …
After being pestered by several people to watch it, I finally pressed play on this indie science fiction film. Last Updated: August 21, 2015
The world today mourns the passing of Richard Bonehill. At least, the Star Wars crazy parts of the population should be tipping their hats to this man Last Updated: February 6, 2015
Have no doubt, when Star Wars found a new home, it ended up with a company that is even more litigiously inclined than the might Lucasfilm. Disney takes no nonsense, as was demonstrated yesterday. The company got a subpoena against the image-sharing website Imageshack. The offending article: A still from the new Star Wars movie. The Hollywood Reporter writes: The …
The new Star Trek movies are fun. JJ Abrams took the project because he felt more could be done with the concept and he was right. Last Updated: January 22, 2015
[column size=one_half position=first ] The author of the book Jarhead makes an interesting point: war movies are generally pro-war, even anti-war ones. Last Updated: January 5, 2015
[column size=one_half position=first ] By the mid-Eighties animatronic special effects were good enough to make some impressive monsters. This led to Joe Dante and Steven Spielberg’s Gremlins, a movie that imbued into an entire generation to never feed exotic creatures after midnight. Last Updated: December 15, 2014
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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