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Movie Review: ‘Vacation’

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Director: John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein Cast: Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Skyler Gisondo, Steele Stebbins Plot: Rusty Griswold, son of Clark and Ellen of the previous Vacation movies, tries to help restore… Continue reading

Why Does Everyone Hate ‘Fantastic Four’?

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Oh boy, here we go again. We had a similarly themed article concerning Pixels a few weeks ago, a movie aimed squarely at the geek market that failed abysmally. Now we have Fantastic Four, another… Continue reading

Tv Review: ‘Minority Report’

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Straight off the bat this seemed like a bad idea. A movie based on Minority Report does have potential as a procedural investigation show, a popular television genre in this era of serialised entertainment, so… Continue reading

Tabletop Tuesday: ‘Exploding Kittens’

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Needless to say, this isn’t the first tabletop game to employ an attention getting title. It’s evocative of the already popular ‘Kittens in a Blender’. Yet this game has become a pre-order smash… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’

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Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki and Hugh Grant Plot: At the peak of the Cold War spy games in Berlin CIA agent and former thief Napoleon… Continue reading

A Long Winded Rant About the ‘Minions’ Movie (and the Trend They Represent)

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The sheer amount of laziness and pointlessness behind this movie pisses me off more than it reasonably should. Yes, it’s just a kids movie and who cares, but I really hate what this… Continue reading

Another 6 Behind-the-Scenes Stories To Ruin Your Favourite Movies

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So a two year old article we wrote just surfaced on Reddit and everyone seems to dig it. And because we love our readers and want to make them happy here’s another round… Continue reading

Tabletop Tuesday: ‘Heroes Wanted’

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Let me start with a story. About a year ago I joined a local gaming collective called WABA (Western Australian Boardgaming Association) in order to meet like minded board gaming enthusiasts and try… Continue reading

Why Does Everyone Hate ‘Pixels’?

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The new Chris Columbus directed Adam Sandler vehicle, an ode to arcade games of the 1980s called Pixels, has been released and the response has been pretty poor. In fact, publishing the most… Continue reading

‘Unfriended’ Is Unexpectedly Great

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Yes, that haunted Skype movie. Where a bunch of friends are tormented by an unseen figure via the internet, leading to murder and whatnot. Let’s get this out of the way now: Unfriended is a… Continue reading