Welcome to the WWE Extreme Rules 2018 review! I’m Nathan Favel and we have lots to cover, so we should get right to it. Match #1: Andrade “Cien” Almas def. Sin Cara (Kickoff Match) The following is courtesy of WWE.com: Two wins, no problem for Andrade “Cien” Almas, who repeated against Sin Cara at WWE […]
Stars: Martin Freeman, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter, Caren Pistorius, Kris McQuade, Natasha Wanganeen, Bruce R. Carter, Simone Landers, David Gulpilil | Written by Yolanda Ramke | Directed by Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke In a desperate bid to outrun a violent pandemic, Andy and Kay have holed up on a houseboat with their one-year-old daughter, Rosie. […]
Welcome to this week’s Major League Wrestling: Fusion review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have a good one to talk about. Match #1: Stud Stable defeated Jason Cade, Jimmy Yuta & Rhett Giddins The following includes a recap which is courtesy of MLW.com The Dirty Blondes teamed up with Parrow as […]
Features: Mike Diana, Peter Bagge, Stephen Bissette, Neil Gaiman, Evan Bacon, Stuart Baggish, Luke Ilrot, Christopher Marone | Written and Directd by Frank Henenlotter Filmmaker Frank Henenlotter, himself no stranger to controversy, steps behind the camera for this documentary about Mike Diana, a comic creator whose career was not ultimately marked by his creativity but […]
Welcome to this week’s WWE Week In Review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we should jump right in. Mae Young Classic 2 Participants Announced The following is courtesy of WWE.com: Three international standouts — Japanese phenom Io Shirai, Canadian ring veteran Nicole Matthews and British up-and-comer Jinny — and former “American Ninja […]
Welcome to this week’s Impact Wrestling review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we should just jump right in. Match #1: The OGs (Homicide and Hernandez) beat two jobbers in a Tag Team Match My Take: The OGs beat the hell out of two jobbers until they were dust in the wind. Match […]
Welcome to this week’s Lucha Underground review on Nerdly. This week, we have some excellent action with Joey Ryan and Mil Muertes, to name but a few. I’m Nathan Favel and we should get right to the action! Match #1: Matanza Cueto beat Cortez Castro My Take: This was a quick squash that Matanza won. […]
In DIGITAL SHORTS we review some of the latest video games that are only available digitally (at least in the UK), in a short-form review format. In this edition we take a look at Spiritsphere DX, a retro-themed sports game now available on the Nintendo Switch. I REALLY didn’t know what to expect when installing […]
Stars: Sterling K. Brown, Jodie Foster, Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Charlie Day, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto, Kenneth Choi | Written and Directed by Drew Pearce Head nurse Jean Thomas (Jodie Foster) has been running Hotel Artemis – a sacred place where criminals can come to have their bleeding bodies healed, […]
Written by Andrew Cartmel | Art by Christopher Jones | Published by Titan Comics As far as rehabilitations of characters go, last issue was a pretty good one for The Seventh Doctor. The Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker incarnations were probably the lowest ebb for The Doctor, and personally I have little love for either […]
The last time that I played a puzzle-platformer that required on-the-fly character switching to make use of their separate powers was Lost Vikings and that was many moons ago. I’ve heard of other games in a similar vein recently, such as Trine but I haven’t got around to playing them. As a relative newcomer to […]
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Pablo Schreiber, Noah Taylor, McKenna Roberts, Kevin Rankin, Roland Moller, Byron Mann, Matt O’Leary, Hannah Quinlivan, Beatrice King, Tzi Ma, Chin Han, Paul McGillion, Kathy Wu | Written and Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber Dwayne Johnson reteams once again with director Rawson Marshall Thurber for Skyscraper, after the critically mixed […]
Stars: Masataka Kubota, Fumika Shimizu, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Hiyori Sakurada, Yu Aoi, Shoko Aida, Kenta Hamano, Kunio Murai | Written by Ichiro Kusuno | Directed by Kentaro Hagiwara Live-action anime adaptions have an interesting history to say the least. They can be great (Death Note, the Japanese movies) but some have been rather problematic (Dragonball Evolution). […]
Welcome to this week’s NXT review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and I say we should get right to the action! Match #1: Adam Cole beat Danny Burch The following is courtesy of WWE.com: With Oney Lorcan on the shelf due to injury, Danny Burch set out to defend his team’s honor against […]
Written by Mathieu Bablet | Art by Mathieu Bablet | Published by Titan Comics As far as comic books go, I cant say I’ve read many ‘end of the world-type’ books that didn’t involve zombies. But I have of course watched many films with different ideas, so I was looking forward to see what the […]
Kill the Bad Guy is an odd one, originally released on Steam in 2014, it appears to be one of the many thousands of games that got lost in the shuffle. Now re-released on the Nintendo Switch, I’m not sure if it will find its audience here either, as this feels a lot like a […]
Welcome to this week’s 205 Live review here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we’ve got a Cruiserweight Title match in the main event. Let’s get right into the action, damn it! Match #1: Kalisto (w/ Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado) versus Tony Nese (w/ Buddy Murphy) ended by No Contest The following is courtesy […]
Stars: Kurtis Lowe, Andrew Dunn, Andy Abrahams, Dominic Brunt, Charlie Chuck, Kate Coogan, Simon Corble, Samantha Daniels, Sally Dexter, Howard Ellis, Nicky Evans, Thalia Zucchi, Joanne Mitchell, Mica Proctor, Laurence R. Harvey | Written by Joanne Mitchell, Paul Shrimpton | Directed by Dominic Brunt George (Andrew Dunn) is playing a board game at home with […]
Welcome to this week’s Smackdown Live review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and this is the final Smackdown before we reach Extreme Rules, which features AJ Styles fighting Rusev for the WWE World Heavyweight Title at the PPV. We have a ten-man tag main event to get to, so let’s not waste any […]
Of all the themes in board gaming, one of the most popular to emerge in the past few years is undoubtedly that of the Lovecraftian world of Cthulhu and his demonic/fish creature minions. From Mansions of Madness to Pandemic: Cthulhu, this theme commonly explores the border between what is real and what isn’t, with the […]
Stars: Michael Fausti, Louise Nosbod, Mathew Bayliss | Written and Directed by Michael Fausti Mick (Michael Fausti) works as a hotel maintenance man. He is interested in dead celebrities, wants to be famous and has found a secret which connects the two. Whilst attending a leaky tap with his colleague Joe (Mathew Bayliss) they strike […]
Written by Simon Furman | Art by Marco Turini | Published by Titan Comics Dare I say it, but this book feels a little like it’s treading water. That may be overstating it a little, but although I’m all for teasing out plotlines over several issues, I’m not so keen on big reveals being pushed […]
