Frenetic and extremely gory, but also a little tiring. When his family is killed by a tyrannical family that holds an iron grip over the city, a mute, deaf boy is trained into a killer. His sole purpose is revenge. Directed by relative newcomer Moritz Mohr, Boy Kills World is an extremely bloody, visceral action…
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Review: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
A strong collaboration between Nintendo and Illumination Studios; the film is a lot of fun! The “Super Mario Brothers” are a two-brother team of plumbers in Brooklyn, hoping to take the plumbing world by storm with their skills. But when they are sucked into another dimension, they have a lot more to deal with than…
Video Games of 2022
Another year, another list of video games! I’ve played a lot of games in 2022. The threat of Covid-19 was still very present at the start of the year, and… I am sad to say, still is at the end of the year. I came down with Covid just this week. So lots of games….
Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
After a pretty successful first outing, the sequel has some of the hero’s… overconfidence. Doctor Ivo Robotnik has returned from being marooned on an alien world, hellbent on destroying the blue hedgehog hero that put him there. But he isn’t alone; a new adversary joins him, while Sonic himself gains a new ally. This is…
Review: Mass Effect – Legendary Edition
As a huge, huge fan of the video game series Mass Effect, produced by Bioware, I feel it necessary to go in depth with my thoughts on the games and their recent “remastering”. The trilogy went through a lot, and changed a great deal between games, and today there is still division between fans as…
Review: Final Fantasy VII Remake
As someone who didn’t grow up with the 1997 original that is so beloved by a huge proportion of gamers (and I might say blindly) there’s something to talk about with the remake that released in 2020. So let it be said: the original Final Fantasy VII… is overrated. If you didn’t grow up with…
Review: Mortal Kombat (2021)
Blowing the dust off my review writing abilities… Who’d have thought Cinema Cocoa would come back with a review of the Mortal Kombat remake, of all things? Two realms, Earthrealm and Savagerealm, also known as Outworld, are in a perpetual battle for dominance in a violent tournament called Mortal Kombat. The Outworld inhabitants need only…
Video Games of 2020
With only eight films watched this year, you might be wondering what else I possibly got up to during the year. Well, one of the distractions I provided myself was video games.Having always played games, especially since the early 90s with the Amiga 500, and having studied to work in the games industry, video games…
Review: Sonic the Hedgehog
A definition that “bad press is better than no press”. An alien creature is transported to our world and finds himself hunted by a secret Government organisation. All he has is his wits, speed, and his human friends. It is disappointing that Sonic the Hedgehog beat Detective Pikachu in opening weekend box office, as it…
Review: Black Mirror – Bandersnatch
A little late to the party here, but Bandersnatch is certainly an interesting mix of media. Stefan Butler is a video game programmer prodigy, and he hopes that an adaptation of a Choose Your Own Adventure book called Bandersnatch will be his greatest achievement. But, how to do it? Despite this feature being released in…