Shaun Munro reviews Tom Clancy’s The Division 2… The “looter shooter” genre is one tailor-made to invite derision from press and players alike, if only for its stereotypical reliance on rote repetition in the pursuit of Shiny Things, while putting basic facets of gaming narrative – that is, story and character – to the back-burner. […]
Movie Review – Triple Frontier (2019)
Triple Frontier, 2019. Directed by J.C. Chandor. Starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund, Adria Arjona, Sheila Vand and Reynaldo Gallegos. SYNOPSIS: Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord. The fourth film from J.C. Chandor (All […]
Movie Review – Juanita (2019)
Juanita, 2019. Directed by Clark Johnson. Starring Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood, Marcus Henderson, Adam Beach, Ashlie Atkinson, Tsulan Cooper, LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kat Smith. SYNOPSIS: Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo. Coming-of-middle-age […]
Video Game Review – ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove
Shaun Munro reviews ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove… There are few video games more emblematic of the 1990s than Mega Drive cult classic ToeJam & Earl, an early entry into the roguelike genre which dropped players into the sneakers of two alien rappers after they crash-land on Earth. This Kickstarter-funded “sequel”, effectively a re-imagining […]
Video Game Review – Ape Out
Shaun Munro reviews Ape Out… It’s nigh-on impossible for any ultra-violent top-down trial-and-error shooter not to be endlessly compared to Hotline Miami these days – especially when it’s also published by Devolver Digital. But beyond this superficial if not entirely insignificant similarity, Ape Out carves out a slickly singular identity that’s very much its own. Agreeably thin on plot, […]
Movie Review – Serenity (2019)
Serenity, 2019. Directed by Steven Knight. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, and Djimon Hounsou. SYNOPSIS: A fishing boat captain juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems. Quietly dumped in a smattering of cinemas and on VOD in the UK this […]
Video Game Review – Trials Rising
Shaun Munro reviews Trials Rising… Trials Rising has been a long time coming for fans of the physics-based racing franchise, with the divisively-received Trials Fusion landing way back in the spring of 2014. And though the latest instalment makes a few peculiar design calls, it is for the most part the addictive, infuriatingly challenging blast fans will […]
Video Game Review – Dick Wilde 2
Shaun Munro reviews Dick Wilde 2… You’d be forgiven for missing southern fried VR shooting gallery Dick Wilde when it launched back in mid-2017 (and you can find our review here). The inauspiciously-monikered shooter was nevertheless an instant cult classic, and remains one of the most impressive uses of PSVR’s Aim controller. Just less than two years later, […]
Second Opinion – Paddleton (2019)
Paddleton, 2019. Directed by Alex Lehmann. Starring Mark Duplass and Ray Romano. SYNOPSIS: An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbours becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer. 2019 has thus far served up mixed results for Netflix’s avalanche of movies released under their Originals label, but mumblecore icon […]
Movie Review – Fighting with My Family (2019)
Fighting with My Family, 2019. Directed by Stephen Merchant. Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Lowden, Nick Frost, Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne Johnson, Kim Matula, Aqueela Zoll, Ellie Gonsalves, Thea Trinidad and Stephen Merchant. SYNOPSIS: The underdog story of WWE superstar Paige, who rose from the ranks of a wrestling family in Norwich to the biggest […]
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