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Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 3 Review – ‘Thin Ice’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 3: Thin Ice… Directed by: Bill Anderson Written by: Sarah Dollard Doctor – “I’m two-thousand years old and I have never had the time for the luxury of outrage.” Doctor Who has been rather good at bringing a number of things to our screens – history, morality, ethical questioning, life and death […]

Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 2 Review – ‘Smile’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 2: Smile… Directed by: Lawrence Gough Written by: Frank Cottrell-Boyce Doctor – “We’re in the utopia of vacuous teens!” In “Smile”, our second episode of Doctor Who Series 10 (written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce who also wrote “In the Forest of the Night” from Series 8) we are taken to one of Earth’s […]

Interview – Julian Chappell of the classic ZX81 publishing house Software Farm

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Villordsutch chats with Julian Chappell of the classic ZX81 publishing house Software Farm… The Sinclair ZX81 was (and still is) a plucky little machine.  RAM packed with 1K of memory this machine came into its element when you crammed a hefty additional 16K onto the back of it, however at the time gaming on the […]

Project ZX review and interview with creator Richard Langford

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Villordsutch reviews Project ZX and chats with creator Richard Langford… Back in 2009 the BBC aired a drama based around the rise of the British home computer market, with its two main players being Sir Clive Sinclair played by Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong and Miller, Danger Mouse) and Chris Curry played by Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, […]

Comic Book Review – Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #5

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Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #5… Plagued by nightmares of a life he never had, Dirk Gently discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past, and they’re about to catch up with him! When is a Dirk Gently comic still brilliant, but in truth not actually a Dirk Gently […]

Exclusive Interview – Rebecca Ford of Digital Extremes talks Warframe: The War Within, developers and PC & Console differences

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Villordsutch talks with Rebecca Ford, ‎Live Operations & Community Producer at Digital Extremes, about Warframe: The War Within… Rebecca Ford is the Live Operations and Community Producer at Digital Extremes and with the recent release of the rather massive update for Warframe titled The War Within arriving on the PS4 and Xbox One, Villordsutch got the chance to speak with Rebecca […]

Book Review – Navigators of Dune

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Villordsutch reviews Navigators of Dune… Navigators of Dune is the third book in the Great Schools trilogy from Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the previous being Mentats of Dune.  Finally, in this book all the threads that have been floating in the Universe, from Venport’s monopoly of both Spice and the Navigators, the fanatical Manford […]

Kurt Russell – A Retrospective

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Kurt Russell is amazing. That’s all there really is to it, quite frankly. Hell, he’s so cool that when he gets cast in a Marvel superhero movie they decide he’s not going to play a superhero. He’s not even going to play a baddie. He’s going to play a planet! That’s right, a planet – in […]

Fear in the Found Footage: A look back at some classics

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The original Blair Witch Project arguably created the found footage genre when it was released back in 1999. Telling the tale of a bunch of students striding out into the Maryland woodlands, the film offered audiences a new way of experiencing terror from the point of view of those being subjected to it, and they […]