The Winds of Winter Written by: David Benioff and D. B. Weiss Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik In the extra-long finale we’ve witnessed the pieces be moved upon the board both rapidly and violently. Here finally do we see Daenerys set sail towards the West, Cersei deliver vengeance upon all that have crossed her, Jon Snow become […]
Video Game Review – The Technomancer
Tom Powter reviews The Technomancer… It dawned on me fairly quickly that The Technomancer, despite its disappointing presentation and overly-cumbersome gameplay, was actually trying legitimately hard to tell a compelling story. With its intriguing concepts and well-voiced plot, it’s a shame then that the game is let down by a multitude of factors, all of […]
Game of Thrones: Winter has brought the Age of Queens
Tony Black on Game of Thrones’ ‘Age of Queens’ (spoilers for ‘The Winds of Winter’ follow)… It began with Kings. Game of Thrones now looks set to end with Queens. The feminist revolution in Westeros truly blossomed this season and epic finale ‘The Winds of Winter’ cemented the concrete inside the stone, or perhaps more […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story may not feature the iconic opening crawl
This December, Disney and Lucasfilm will release the first Star Wars Anthology movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The spinoff is set to mark a departure from the Saga films: it won’t have John Williams’ familiar score (with Alexandre Desplat composing the music), it won’t have an episode number, and it may not even […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #61 – Eric and the Floaters
We leave the orb stealing, gravity pulling, highly enjoyable but Thrust-rating (hope you caught that?) space adventure and we turn to quite possibly the strangest titled game in the Your Sinclair Top 100, one that in some parts of the UK is really lost in translation. We’ve arrived at No. #61 and in bobs Eric […]
Movie Review – Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition (2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition, 2016. Directed by Zack Snyder. Starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Scoot McNairy, Tao Okamoto, Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ray Fisher, Jena Malone, Ezra Miller and Callan Mulvey. SYNOPSIS: Fearing that the actions of […]
Edinburgh International Film Festival Review – The Colony (2016)
Colonia (a.k.a. The Colony), 2015. Directed by Florian Gallenberger. Starring Emma Watson, Michael Nyqvist, Daniel Bruhl, Richenda Carey, Vicky Krieps, Jeanne Werner and Julian Ovenden. SYNOPSIS: A young woman’s desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from. Every true artist sets out to make […]
Movie Review – Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Independence Day: Resurgence, 2016 Directed by Roland Emmerich. Starring Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, William Fichtner, Jessie T. Usher, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Brent Spiner, Sela Ward, Joey King, Judd Hirsch and Deobia Oparei. SYNOPSIS: Twenty years after their initial invasion of Earth, the aliens have returned. (CONTAINS SPOILERS) Make no mistake, the first Independence […]
More rumours about the X-Men joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Ever since the surprise announcement that Sony and Marvel Studios had reached a deal to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s been frequent rumours suggesting a similar deal with Fox, which would allow the X-Men to join up with The Avengers on the big screen. Well, another rumour is doing the rounds which suggests that […]
Warcraft crosses $400 million worldwide
Following last week’s news that Duncan Jones’ big screen adaptation of Warcraft has become the biggest video game movie of all-time, it has unlocked another achievement. Warcraft never really found its feet domestically, and has dropped out of the Top 10 after just three weeks (earning around $2 million over the weekend), and its domestic […]
