I am not sure who this movie is made for. After her sister goes missing, Clover brings her friends on the trail on which she was last seen. But in finding an isolated hotel, the group find themselves trapped for a night that seems to never end. Directed by Peter F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Shazam!)…
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Review: A Minecraft Movie
Everything is not Awesome. Random people find themselves thrown into The Overworld, a magical land where creativity is endless. But they quickly find it threatened by a malevolent force. Directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) and starring Jack Black (Borderlands, The Super Mario Bros Movie) and Jason Momoa (Dune: Part One) the movie……
Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
In a rare turn of fate, the third in a film series is the best one? Sonic, a high speed creature from another world, has a new adversary: Shadow. But even with his friends, he might need to make an unlikely alliance to thwart this new foe. Director Jeff Fowler has had exclusivity of the…
Review: Borderlands
All the progress made for the video game adaptation… undone. Lilith, a bounty hunter, returns to her home planet of Pandora in search of a business CEO’s daughter who has been kidnapped. Little does she know, this girl’s fate is entwined with opening a legendary vault, containing unparalleled power. Borderlands was a hit video game…
Review: Boy Kills World
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…
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…