After the surprise success of the first film, it seemed only natural for Marvel to want to get back into space again for a sequel. And in a very wise move, they kept the majority of the creative talent, including writer/director James Gunn, and let them run riot […]
Andy Weir’s debut novel The Martian was quite the revelation to me. After hearing the hype and then talks of it becoming a movie I thought I had better check it out. With a story that boils down to Robinson Crusoe mashed up with Apollo 13 and written […]
I am a massive fan of Carl Sagan’s work. I own most of his published works and through his words, I have been taken in by the passion he had for science, history and for telling stories in ways that created excitement and awe in people. I was disheartened by my own experiences with […]
I’d imagine that there must have been plenty of Sci-Fi fans in the past hoping that Joss Whedon would have a crack at making a Star Wars movie. He had everything going right in his sadly short lived series Firefly. And now thanks to James Gunn, we have […]
I suppose that the most challenging task faced by the makers of Iron Man 3 was how they could make something that didn’t simply ride on the coattails of The Avengers. Thankfully they chose a path focusing on drama that gives characters a renewed purpose for the future of […]
The hard thing about writing a review for a movie is trying to avoid critical comparisons to material that it borrows ideas from. That’s the problem Star Trek Into Darkness faces in my eyes. Worse still, it’s taking liberties from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, considered […]
For good or ill, a lot of people’s memories of Judge Dredd are not tied to the 2000 AD comic books but to a movie starring Sylvester Stallone. Though it did a good job of it visually, the movie seemed to try too hard by pulling in more references […]
John Carpenter’s Escape from New York set a template for action movies for years. It had impossibly high stakes, unexpected environments and with its main character Snake Plissken, an anti-hero bigger than the movie itself. Though the sequel Escape from LA went a little too far down crazy […]
I know it’s been out for some time now, but I finally plucked up the courage to watch the 3D version of James Cameron’s Avatar, that little known movie about blue aliens that rips off Dances with Wolves. You might be asking why I would need convincing to […]
When news of Ridley Scott returning to Alien hit the Internet, there was a mixture of excitement and cynicism. Could he turn around a franchise that he inadvertently created but lost its way long after his involvement ended? In a nutshell, the plot revolves around a discovery that […]
The story of one person’s attempts to make their Rampage Arcade1Up cabinet do more.
A look back at some of the games we've played on Xbox One over the years.
Our own tips and experiences while trying to make a living out in the black.
The Late Night Session 