Film Reviews: The Lion King

Disney have produced many great and glorious films over the years. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have heard of Toy Story, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and of course the classics like Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Robin Hood and Peter Pan. With a young daughter, you become very familiar with […]

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Game Reviews: Master of Orion II

I’ve always enjoyed strategy games. Four X games (expand, explore, exploit, exterminate) can come in many flavours, ranging from fantasy settings (Warcraft) to historical games (Total War) and settings based on established genres (Star Wars: Empire at War and Star Trek: Birth of the Federation). One of my favourite all-time strategy games is Master of […]

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Film Reviews: Terminator 2 Judgement Day

Hot on the heels of my Terminator review, comes my review of the sequel (the aptly named Terminator 2: Judgement Day). It’s clear from the start of the film that Terminator 2 is a different animal to the first installment. Whereas T1 was made on a relative shoestring (and the technology behind the SFX wasn’t […]

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Film Review: The Terminator

Time for another dose of nostalgia. Having recently taken a trip down memory lane with the Jurassic Park franchise, the release of Terminator: Genisys is as good a time as any to look back at where the Terminator franchise began. With reviews of Genisys being less than complimentary (I haven’t personally seen it yet, so […]

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Film Reviews: Jurassic World

So some 22 years after the original Jurassic Park film reignited the public’s passion for dinosaurs in a huge way, the film franchise revisits its roots – both within the Jurassic Park universe, and thematically, with the fourth installment – Jurassic World. This film has come in (unfairly, in my humble opinion) for criticism of […]

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Film Reviews: Age of Ultron

Age of Ultron has a lot to live up to. The first Avengers film was a smash hit, popular with fans and critics alike, and it fed the fanboy in all of us with scraps between our heroes, a deliciously evil villain, and of course, that moment when they united to become the Avengers. A […]

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Video Game Reviews: Star Fox

Firstly, you might be asking ‘Starwing? I thought you were reviewing Starfox!’ Well, I am, only the game was called Starwing in the UK due to copyright, hence the above image. Starfox was the first SNES game to use the Super FX chip, a new feature that allowed for 3D polygons to be used to […]

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Film Reviews: Star Trek (2009)

My first film review is a film that proved to be quite divisive within the Trekkie fan base. Star Trek was the film that ‘rebooted’ the franchise, several years after Enterprise went off the air. The film takes the franchise back to its roots. The original characters of Kirk, Spock, McCoy and co were recast […]

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