22nd Dec2023

Best of 2023: ‘Dead Space’ Review (PC)

by Chris Thomas

Despite being middle-aged and having a deep love of horror. I am too much of a coward to play horror games. I love the idea of them, but games give you agency, and that dear reader is too much pressure for me. Running in panic as the monsters close in, is too much for me […]

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13th Sep2023

Rewind: ‘Lords of Chaos’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Sky Ferreira, Valter Skarsgard, Anthony De La Torre, Jonathan Barnwell, Sam Coleman, Wilson Gonzalez, Lucian Charles Collier | Written by Jonas Akerlund, Dennis Magnusson | Directed by Jonas Akerlund Rory Culkin, starring in one of the most interesting and weird true stories of all time should be a […]

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05th Sep2023

RETRO-spective: 3DO Interactive Multiplayer

by Chris Thomas

The 3D0 REAL interactive Multiplayer was a piece of technology that was way ahead of its time but also arrived dead on arrival. Let me explain. The 3DO Company lacked the resources or experience in manufacturing their console, so they licensed the design for other companies to manufacture. This meant that the price of the […]

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19th Jul2023

‘Amiga 500 Mini’ Review

by Chris Thomas

The Amiga 500 Mini has been on the market for about a year. A price drop, that saw me able to pick one up for 75 euros finally sucked me in. Growing up, I was an Amiga kid, and a little A500-shaped plastic box is able to trigger some serious nostalgia for me. To me, […]

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18th Jul2023

‘Sisu’ VOD Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila | Written and Directed by Jalmari Helander Our film tells us that Sisu is an untranslatable Finnish word, for extreme courage. I would debate who that word is supposed to apply to, as our protagonist here is an unfeeling mass murderer Perhaps it refers […]

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04th Nov2022

Rewind: ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Noma Dumezweni, Rebecca Ferguson, Mark Bonnar, Angus Imrie, Alexandra Roach, Patrick Stewart | Written and Directed by Joe Cornish As a wise man (or woman) once said, “Good intentions doth butter no Parsnips” Never have truer words been said, and nor […]

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31st Oct2022

‘X’ Review #2

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Mia Goth, Martin Henderson, Brittany Snow, Jenna Ortega, Owen Campbell, Kid Cudi, Stephen Ure | Written and Directed by Ti West People have been trying to remake The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for a long time. Not just the many (mostly awful) sequels, but filmmakers have been trying to catch that lightning in a bottle. […]

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25th May2022

‘The Burning Sea’ VOD Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Anders Baasmo, Bjørn Floberg, Anneke von der Lippe, Ane Skumsvoll, Cengiz Al, Nils Elias Olsen | Written by Harald Rosenløw-Eeg Lars Gudmestad | Directed by John Andreas Andersen The Burning Sea is a Norwegian film with an interesting, albeit depressing conceit… In 1969, the Norwegian government announces their […]

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07th Apr2022

‘World Ends at Camp Z’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Anne-Carolyne Binette, Dean Persons, Michael Czemerys, Osawa Muskwa, Rafaela Salomão, Arthur Bussières Gallant | Written by Diane Janna | Directed by Ding Wang How long would it be until low budget horror films, try to cash in on the COVID pandemic? Well, World Ends at Camp Z is a Canadian film from January 2022. […]

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07th Apr2022

‘Hustle Down’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Tom Sizemore, Bai Ling, Paul Sidhu, Kevin Gage, Raymond J. Barry, Vanessa Angel, Noel Gugliemi, David Fernandez Jr., Victorya Brandart, Luis Gatica, Geoffrey Ross, Brad Potts | Written by Benjamin Budd | Directed by R. Ellis Frazier Like many low budget action films, there is a constant, uneasy tension between ambition and what is […]

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06th Apr2022

‘Godforsaken’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Chad Tailor, Mélie B. Rondeau, Katie Fleming, Domenic Derose, Nicole Fairbairn, Chris Kelly, JoAnn Bundock, Flora Burke, Dan Bieman, Pat Raftis | Written and Directed by Ali Akbar Akbar Kamal Do you remember how great the film [REC] was? Ali Akbar Akbar Kamal does. It looks so easy, to make a brilliant, handycam horror […]

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09th Feb2022

Opinionated: ‘The Walking Dead: All-Out War’ – Everything comes to an end…

by Chris Thomas

It was recently announced by Ronnie Renton, owner, and Head honcho at Mantic games that their skirmish tabletop game The Walking Dead: All-Out War along with the Call to Arms were not going to see further releases or further support. A couple of years ago I reviewed The Walking Dead: All-Out War, which was one […]

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08th Feb2022

‘Werewolves Within’ Review – Second Opinion

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Sam Richardson, Wayne Duvall, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil, Michaela Watkins, Glenn Fleshler, Cheyenne Jackson, Sarah Burns, Harvey Guillen | Written by Mishna Wolff | Directed by Josh Ruben Shaun of the Dead famously launched with the tagline “ZOM, ROM, COM”, as in “zombies”, “romance” and “comedy”. It is fair to say, that is a […]

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17th Jan2022

RETRO-spective: A 2022 look back at the Atari Jaguar

by Chris Thomas

It is Christmas 1993. The Atari brand is a dumpster fire. The age of the 16 Bit games machine, dominated by Sega and Nintendo is coming to an end and Atari think that their 64-bit Jaguar is positioned to take over. In the age of the Bit Wars, where more bits MUST mean a console […]

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17th Dec2021

‘No Time to Die’ Blu-ray Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear | Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga No Time to Die, not to be confused with Too Young […]

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02nd Dec2021

‘The Green Knight’ Blu-ray Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Ralph Ineson | Written and Directed by David Lowery Dev Patel stars as our wastrel noble, Gawain in the time of Arthurian legend. He has notions of being a Knight but is rather too busy fornicating with beautiful ladies and drinking all night long. He […]

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05th Nov2021

‘Deadzone: Third Edition’ Board Game Review

by Chris Thomas

Cards on the table. Since writing my last glowing review for something by Mantic Games I have signed up as a volunteer “Pathfinder” which is their super user program that gets people that love their games to rub them in the faces of as many people as possible. So, before I go on, I do […]

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01st Nov2021

‘Nobody’ Blu-ray Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Alexey Serebryakov, Christopher Lloyd, RZA, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, Billy MacLellan, Gage Munroe | Written by Derek Kolstad | Directed by Ilya Naishuller As a child of the 80s and 90s I was a huge action film fan. In my mind, action was only slightly less amazing than horror. I […]

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05th Oct2021

‘No Time To Die’ Review #2

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Billy Magnussen, Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear | Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga No Time to Die, not to be confused with Too Young […]

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21st Sep2021

‘Dune’ Review (2021)

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Stellen Skarsgaard, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Ferguson, Timothee Chalamet, Jason Momoa, Oscar Isaac, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Josh Brolin, David Dastmalchian, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling | Written by Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth | Directed by Denis Villeneuve As a preteen, Dune was probably the novel that meant more to me. It was my […]

09th Jul2021

‘Agony’ VOD Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Asia Argento, Franco Nero, Jonathan Caouette, Nick Daly, Ninetto Davoli, Giulia Di Quilio, Monica Guerritore, Rade Serbedzija | Written by Michele Civetta, Joseph Schuman | Directed by Michele Civetta Sometimes I feel a little sorry for low budget horror film makers today. Dial it back 30 years, you could make an incompetent piece of […]

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23rd Jun2021

‘Digging to Death’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Ford Austin, Tom Fitzpatrick, Rachel Alig, Ken Hudson Campbell, Richard Riehle, Clint Jung, Sumeet Dang, Bryan Dodds, Debbie DeLisi, Stephan Singh | Written and Directed by Michael P.Blevins Back in the 1990s, when loading up a game, I used to get a little flutter when I saw the Konami logo and heard the little […]

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