Written by Max Allan Collins | Art by Marcelo Salaza, Marcio Freire | Published by Hard Case Crime/Titan Comics I’m guessing pretty much everyone has heard of Mickey Spillane, even those not really fans of the hardboiled detective genre, which he practically invented. When Mickey Spillane’s most famous character, Mike Hammer, first hit the stands […]
Welcome to this review of Ring of Honor’s Best in the World 2018 pay per view! I’m Nathan Favel and I say we don’t waste any time with pleasantries. Here comes the action! Match #1: The Kingdom (Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia & TK O’Ryan) beat Los Ingornerbales de Japon (EVIL, Sanada & Bushi) – Ring of […]
Welcome to the debut of the new WWE Week in Review column, only on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and this will be a regular column that occurs each weekend on this site and will provide a best and worst of what happens with the largest wrestling league in the world as well as notable pieces […]
I’m Nathan Favel and welcome to my first Impact Wrestling review for Nerdly. As I recently spoke of in my “Opinionated” column concerning the former TNA Wrestling, I have a genuine interest in seeing this company succeed, even if that is just as a good old wrestling fan. With the WWE being more stagnant than […]
Written by Michael Vaughn | Published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd | Format: Paperback, 352pp The Ultimate Guide to Strange Cinema is a new book from Michael Vaughn which does what it says in the title. Delivering a comprehensive guide to some of the strangest films from around the world, which includes a mixture of the […]
Here’s your Lucha Underground Season 4, episode 3, review for Wednesday June 27th 2018: Match #1: XO Lishus beat Jack Evans Regularly known as Sonny Kiss, this was XO Lishus’s debut. With a vibrant personality and a buoyant move-set, XO took on Jack Evans, one of wrestling’s best aerialists and all-around fighters. Evans was a […]
Stars: Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Isabela Moner, Elijah Rodriguez, Catherine Keener, Matthew Modine | Written by Taylor Sheridan | Directed by Stefano Sollima 2015’s Sicario was the film that elevated its director Denis Villenueve and got him the Blade Runner gig. Relentlessly grim and sometimes frustratingly evasive, it might not have functioned brilliantly as […]
Here is this week’s WWE NXT review for Wednesday June 27th 2018: Match #1: Kona Reeves beat Max Humberto This was a quick squash that made Kona look like the wrong guy to meet in a dark alley. Kona seems to grow more self-assured, more aggressive and more dangerous each time he competes between the […]
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 Cast of Seven Godsends, a 16-bit side-scrolling homage now available on the Nintendo Switch. The Kingdom of Dareca is about to […]
Here is the WWE 205 Live review for Tuesday June 26th 2018: Match #1: Akira Tozawa beat Tony Nese The whole idea here was that two great wrestlers with egos to match tried to show-up each other. Nese was in power for most of the match, with a torture rack as an early high-light from […]
Megacon, the Southeast’s largest fan convention with shows in both Orlando and Tampa Bay, returned to the Orange County Convention Center on Thursday May 24th through Sunday May 27th 2018. This year, Megacon Orlando welcomed more than 100,000 fans throughout the Memorial Day weekend with a long roster of celebrity guests, endless programming and much […]
Once upon a time, fluidly realistic character animation was a new thing in gaming. In 1989, Jordan Mechner’s Prince of Persia gave us a groundbreaking rotoscoped avatar (based on Mechner’s own brother, no less). In 1991, French developer Delphine Software pushed the medium into cinematic territory with the brief but dazzling Another World. The following […]
Welcome to more of our expanded coverage of wrestling here on Nerdly. We’ll be presenting RAW/Smackdown/205 Live/Main Event results and recaps after each episode and we’ll have column at the end of the week where we name the best matches of the week, the worst moments of the week and the biggest news items about […]
Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice is, as the name suggests, a dice game that recreates the chaotic and exciting fun of Mexican Wrestling. Like all dice games, Luchador! includes a huge amount of luck, but thanks to the way different dice rolls interact with each other and due to the inclusion of some advanced rules, there […]
Splatoon 2’s single-player campaign was an enjoyable showcase for the series’ unique art style and paint-swimming mechanics, although at times it did feel like an extended tutorial for the multiplayer main draw. Apparently seeking to address this, Nintendo have now produced their Octo Expansion. And expansive it is: this feels like the adventure we solo […]
Stars: Lola Gove, Axel Holst, Anika Strauss, Matthan Harris, Denis Lyons, Milton Welsh, Désirée Giorgetti, Kristina Kostiv, Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt | Directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, Andreas Marschall Whenever a new underground horror film gets announced; I can get instantly overtaken by doubt. I have had too many underwhelming and tedious experiences. Every now and then, a film comes around […]
Welcome to the first in our expanded coverage of wrestling here on Nerdly. We’ll be presenting RAW/Smackdown/205 Live/Main Event results and recaps after each episode and we’ll have column at the end of the week where we name the best matches of the week, the worst moments of the week and the biggest news items […]
Welcome to this week’s Ring of Honor review. I’m Nathan Favel and we’ve got some great action ahead of us tonight. Let’s jump right into the fray at break-neck speed (not literally, it’s just a television review… I probably didn’t need to say that). Match #1: Jay Lethal vs. Chuckie T (Chuck Taylor) This is […]
The Journey Down is a traditional graphic adventure game with the standard point and click interface but a unique setting and tone. Having been around in various forms since 2010, this final re-vamped version on the Nintendo Switch is easily the most definitive and feels right at home on the platform. The setting of The Journey […]
Stars: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez, Vinny Curran, Peter Cilella, James Jordan | Written and Directed by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead Spring was one of my favourite horror movies of 2015. Mixing Lovecraftian horror with the strangest of love stories and creating an emotional, original and beautiful genre film. Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead […]
Considering that it was designed by Mark Herman and published by GMT Games (both of whom are well known for producing relatively heavy war games) I was both surprised and delighted to discover how light and accessible Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis 1860-61 (Fort Sumter from here on out) actually is. A strictly two player […]
