‘Goldfinger’ Review
Director: Guy Hamilton Cast: Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallet, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn Plot: Whilst recovering from a mission Bond is introduced to Auric Goldfinger, a bullion dealer and smuggler who has caught the interest of MI:6 and the CIA. During the investigation into Goldfinger’s activities … Read more
Top 10 Classic Point-n-Click Adventures
Back in the good ol’ days when gaming was primitive (the 1990s) there was a large and popular genre called ‘point-n-click’ adventure games. They were simple fare, forsaking action and speed for slower paced, story focused games that were driven my environmental interaction and puzzle solving. In short, you’d direct a character around a location … Read more
Retro ‘Doctor Who’ Reviews – Part 4
Continuing on with the Second Season, we have another missing story, The Crusades, that takes place between The Web Planet and The Space Museum. The only impact this has on the story except that the time travelers are wearing 13th century clothes at the beginning on an episode with explanation. So…away we go! **Woorp Woorp** … Read more
50 Years of Bond: ‘From Russia With Love’ Review
Director: Terence Young Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell Plot: When evil organisation SPECTRE concoct a plan to steal a Russian decoding machine they see an opportunity to lure out James Bond, wanting to kill him in retaliation for his actions against Dr. No … Read more
50 Years of Bond: ‘Dr. No’ Review
Director: Terence Young Cast: Sean Connery, Ursala Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, John Kitzmiller, Bernard Lee Plot: When a British agent is murdered by three assassins known as the ‘Three Blind Mice’ Double-0 Agent James Bond is dispatched to Jamaica to investigate. There he finds a wider conspiracy headed up by the enigmatic Dr. No. … Read more
Retro ‘Doctor Who’ Reviews – Part 3
Continuing on from the last batch of reviews we’ve entered into the second season featuring the First Doctor. We’ve also taken a bit of a jump from the last story (The Sensorites) as the next two stories are yet to be remastered and released on DVD. So we skip past ‘The Reign of Terror’, the … Read more
Retro ‘Doctor Who’ Review – Part 2
Since having gone back in time (in a manner of speaking) to review the first three ‘Doctor Who’ stories the decision has been made to push on through the rest of the series. Putting aside the nagging feeling that there is a downright ridiculous number of episodes and DVDs to work through, we’ve knuckled down … Read more
Games From the Bargin Bin: Saints Row 2
When ‘Saints Row 2′ was leading up to it’s release a couple of years ago it got plenty of attention and positive reviews yet it didn’t grab my attention enough to put down $100 for it. Part of the problem was its print campaign that took the angle of taking the piss out of its … Read more
Science Fiction Retrospective 2: The Handmaid’s Tale
This harrowing tale of theocratic hell was read for you by Hedgie. This novel was actually pretty hard to buy. I mean it wasn’t hard to buy at all actually, I bought it for Kindle in three easy steps but before I remembered that the internet existed I fumbled around with local bookstores like … Read more
‘Doctor Who: The Beginnings’ DVD Review
So here’s my personal history with Doctor Who. In spite of it appearing out of the corner of my eye throughout childhood I never gave it much heed, finding the nifty opening sequence to be the most interesting part. All I knew about the series was that there were multiple Doctors and they traveled through … Read more
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