It was only a few months ago that I worked my way through Lizardcube’s re-make of Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap. I picked it up at a bargain price for the Switch (from Insane Games in Bridgwater, a haven of retro gold for those interested) and merrily made my way through the adventure. Its hand-drawn […]
It’s been quite some time since team Nerdly attended MCM Comic Con Birmingham, in fact its been 4 years – thanks to the terrible winter weather which put the kibosh on attending the Birmingham event back in March – since we were a part of the last NEC event. And in the intervening years a […]
Made by appSide Down – a team of just two – and published by Sonka Games, who are best known to Switch owners for Astro Bears Party, Escape Doodland is an autorunner platform game with bags of charm and a practically vertical difficulty curve. There’s nothing new about the gameplay conceit of outrunning a pursuing […]
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons, Mark O’Brien, Molly Ephraim, Chris Coy, Alex Karpovsky, Josh Brener, Tommy Dewey, Kaitlyn Dever, Oliver Cooper, Jenna Kanell, RJ Brown, Alfred Molina | Written by Jason Reitman, Matt Bai, Jay Carson | Directed by Jason Reitman Jason Reitman, coming off the incredibly controversial and mixed acclaim of Tully, […]
Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Stephen Chase, John Benson, Olin Howland | Written by Theodore Simonson, Kay Linaker | Directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr Alongside The Fly and The Thing, Chuck Russell’s remake of The Blob was the third in the Holy Trinity of 1980s cover versions of 1950s sci-fi horror. Like David […]
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, John Gallagher Jr., Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck | Written by Emily M. Danforth, Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele | Directed by Desiree Akhavan The Miseducation of Cameron Post is the second feature from rising director Desiree Akhavan. Her latest, a terrifying tale of sexual oppression by religion is based on the book […]
Welcome to this week’s Major League Wrestling review, right on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we’ve got… highhhhhhhhh hopes! You ever seen Antz? That song was in Antz. In the 1990s, it was cool to use a “z” in place of an “s”. What the hell was I talking about? Anyway, I still don’t have […]
Welcome to this week’s Impact Wrestling review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have some wrestling…hopefully…maybe…baby. It rhymed…I couldn’t resist. Match #1: Lucha Bros (Pentagon Jr & Fenix) beat Rich Swann & Willie Mack The following is courtesy of impactwrestling.com: Swann and Fenix are evenly matched in the early going. There’s a […]
Welcome to this week’s NXT review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Bob Crane was beaten to death in 1978… whoops, wrong one. I gotta get that delete button already. NXT looks to be eventful this week, so let’s see how well every-thing goes. Match #1: Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch def. The […]
Welcome to this week’s NXT: UK review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have a new UK Women’s Champion to crown, so let’s get right to it. Match #1: Joe Coffey vs. Tyler Bate ended in a No Contest The following is courtesy of WWE.com: After tasting weeks of defeat, Sid Scala […]
Welcome to this week’s 205 Live review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have more action from what is a fairly consistent division from a league that needs more of that. Match #1: Noam Dar def. Mike Kanellis The following is courtesy of WWE.com: Last week on WWE 205 Live, Gran Metalik […]
Welcome to this week’s Mixed Match Challenge review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have… more of this. I’ll try to be positive and give it a chance. Match #1: Jinder Mahal & Alicia Fox def. Curt Hawkins & Ember Moon The following is courtesy of WWE.com: Just one day after Curt […]
Stars: Cress Williams, China Anne McClain, Nafessa Williams, Christine Adams, James Remar, Marvin Jones III, Damon Gupton | Developed by Salim Akil Apologies to all as a result of a family emergency, I was not able to review last week’s Black Lightning episode so let’s do a quick recap on what we missed last week. […]
War is something we see on television and in films, some of us even play it in games like Call of Duty, but we do so for entertainment. We understand that there are wars out there and people get killed, but most of us are lucky and don’t have to face that. This War of Mine […]
Stars: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Liam Neeson, Jon Bernthal, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Coburn Goss, Alejandro Verdin, Bailey Rhyse Walters, Carrie Coon, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Molly Kunz | Written by Steve McQueen, Gillian Flynn | Directed by Steve McQueen Steve McQueen is four for four in terms of cinematic masterpieces after Hunger, Shame, 12 […]
Features the voices of: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot, Taraji P. Henson, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Alfred Molina, Ed O’Neill, Flula Borg, Ali Wong, Sean Giambrone | Written by Phil Johnston, Pamela Ribon | Directed by Phil Johnston, Rich Moore Taking place six years after saving the arcade from Turbo’s vengeance, […]
Stars: Mike ‘The Miz’ Mizanin, Shawn Michaels, Becky Lynch, Louisa Connolly-Burnham, Terence Maynard, Tim Woodward, Martyn Ford, Anna Demetriou, Michael Higgs, Daniel Adegboyega, Alec Newman, Hester Ruoff | Written by Craig Walendziak | Directed by James Nunn WWE superstar The Miz and director James Nunn re-team for the sixth entry in the Marine franchise, filmed […]
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, […]
If you’re familiar with Fantasy Flight Games catalogue, then you must have encountered one or more of their Lovecraft inspired games by now. Among them are some of the most recognisable lines in FFG’s catalogue, including Mansions of Madness and the Arkham Horror Living Card Game (LCG). There have also been two editions of the […]
Welcome to this weeks Smackdown Live review, right here on Nerdly. And it’s the second week in a row that we have to ask: “will this episode of Smackdown be more of a success than Monday’s Raw” – and without even watching the show, I guessing it will be, after the sh*t show that was […]
The last game I played by publisher COSEN was the quirky Taiwanese puzzler Behind the Screen, which was relatively basic in its execution but had enough character to keep my interest up for the duration of the play-through. Destruction however, definitely feels more at home on a mobile device than the Nintendo Switch as its […]
