Leaving the piece of art that was Deus Ex Machina and praying there is no cyber-gift shop on the way out, we can only hope that our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 is a better effort than the previous two servings. With the publisher of Ultimate Play the Game already appearing on […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #81 – Dark Star
After being firmly grounded in the Hyperaction’s mazes, we now take to the stars once again with Design Design’s Dark Star which arrives at No. 81 in the Your Sinclair Top 100. According to the World of Spectrum the game was supposedly inspired by John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon’s film of the same name, though anybody who […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #31 – Lunar Jetman
With a heavy heart we leave Jet Set Willy and continue counting down in the the Your Sinclair Top 100 and it appears we’re in luck as what floats in at No.#31 is another Ultimate Play the Game release – this time it’s Lunar Jetman.Lunar Jetman bobbed into view back in 1983 from Tim and Chris Stamper and was […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #51 – Robotron
From one highly addictive classic to another, we attempt to tear ourselves away from Jumping Jack and load up No. 51 in the Your Sinclair Top 100. Robotron will have you swearing so loudly your surrounding neighbours will be picking up a few new colourful words today.Robotron – also known as Robotron 2084 – was […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #25 – Manic Miner
After the frantic, colourful space shmup that was Light Force our next game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 takes us deep under our own worlds surface. Number #25 is the classic platformer Manic Miner.Manic Miner came from the brain of Matthew Smith in 1983, published by Bug-Byte Software and then Software Projects. It was […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #23 – The Great Escape
Rapidly leaving the rather humdrum Starstrike II behind, we open the box marked classics in the Your Sinclair Top 100 and hope our next game isn’t so disheartening. Taking a glance at the cover of No.#23 I’m sure that The Great Escape – from Ocean Software – will not let us down one bit…I hope.The Great […]
Interview: Everybody Wants Some!! star Tyler Hoechlin talks Richard Linklater, working with Tom Hanks and Fifty Shades sequels
This Friday sees the long-awaited release of Everybody Wants Some!! [read our ★★★★★ review here] the new film from acclaimed writer/director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before trilogy). Promoted as the “spiritual sequel” to Linklater’s 1993 cult classic Dazed and Confused, the new film charts the lives of a group of college baseball players navigate their way through […]
Based on a ‘True Story’: Blonde and the Fallacy of Historical Accuracy in Fiction
In the wake of Netflix’s controversial Blonde, Anghus Houvouras discusses the fallacy of accuracy in historical fiction…Mark Twain famously said “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” It’s a fantastic quote, but here’s something interesting; Apparently Mark Twain never said it. You’ll see the quote attributed to him in countless […]
Re-Bourne: Jason Bourne and the post-Snowden world
Tony Black on Matt Damon’s return as Jason Bourne in the post-Snowden world… Nobody thought Jason Bourne was gone forever. Not even when Tony Gilroy’s misjudged The Bourne Legacy attempted to relaunch the franchise, sans Bourne himself, did people truly believe we’d seen the last of probably the greatest cinematic super spy of the modern […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #39 – Mercenary
Cruising highways are gone and now forgotten as we wave goodbye to Highway Encounter; with our next entry in the Your Sinclair Top 100 our world has become somewhat hollow, somewhat wireframe, and now we sell our cut throat services for cash. At No.#39 is the 3D game of technical wizardry – it’s time to […]
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