Best and Worst of 2024

2024 has been a real rollercoaster of movie quality. Sometimes it swings one way or the other, but this time it has been fairly samey with big swings and big misses. For every Monkey Man there was a Borderlands. The samey-ness came from Hollywood just churning out unnecessary stuff. A sequel to Beetlejuice? A sequel…

Video Games of 2024 (with only three being from 2024)

Looking over my list of games… almost none of them are from 2024. So that’s a warning for you! “Epics” have been taking all of my game-playing time this year. From Dragon Age: Inquisition (ahead of this years Dragon Age: Veilguard) and Larian Studio’s Divinity and Baldur’s Gate 3. I definitely feel a bit wiped….

Best and Worst of 2023

2023… It has been a difficult year for me personally, and I welcomed the increase in cinema this year since the pandemic as it was a means of escapism and distraction. But it has also been a difficult year for cinema! The start of the year (in the lead up to award season) saw several…

Video Games of 2023

This year has flown by. Genuinely cannot think of a faster year for me. 2023 wasn’t just packed with movies again, with theatres recovering from the pandemic enough to be open, but also games! It should be said that both industries have been hit very badly during 2023, however… The game’s industry suffering record amounts…