My Most Anticipated Book Adaptations of 2018 — Paperback Cinema

2018 seems like it will be an excellent year for adaptations of books to film. Personally, I can’t hardly wait any longer for Ready Player One. Let’s hope that these all do their source material justice. Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (Feb. 23) – A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don’t […]

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Kirby: Star Allies (preview)

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Kirby Star allies is a co-op Kirby game that come March 16th will allow you to team up with friends in a beautiful Kirby adventure and allow you to work together and combine powers to defeat your enemies and once again save the world. 2018 is shaping up to be another big year for the Nintendo Switch and this game will surly add to that. May the gaming gods bring you glory.

David Jaffe and The State of Twisted Metal — All The PlayStation You’ll Ever Need.

If you’ve been a fan of PlayStation over the past 20+ years, then I KNOW you’ve heard of Twisted Metal. If you’ve heard of TM, then you know the one creator who is synonymous with it: The Man, The Myth, THE LEGEND… David Jaffe! You know, The Brah who helped mold Twisted Metal and some […]

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The World Ends With You (Switch

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A long time ago for the Nintendo DS a game was released called The World Ends with You. Originally in 2007 in Japan and the PAL region in 2008 it quickly became a sort of cult hit. It used the DS in amazing ways such as using the styles and microphone for attacks and combined many aspects of Japanese culture in a way that the world over seemed to love. Now in 2018 a whole new group of people will get to enjoy this game, this time for the Nintendo Switch. How this will turn out I am not sure, but it promises to be an amazing treat. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Sharknado 5 (2017)

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Oh Sharknado. I am pretty sure people mostly watch these movies to see how far off the deep end of what the fuck did I just watch they can go, and Sharknado 5 goes even further off that deep end than ever before. I am talking hit a rock star with a bus so he plays some metal while driving down the road then kills a shark with his guitar style off the deep end. The movie is goofy and silly as hell, just like the last 4. The dialogue is corny, the visuals are pretty much as B movie as they can possibly get. And if you enjoyed the last 4 you will like this one, if you didn’t, this will not change that at all. In fact this one may actually make some fans shy away from continuing the series, and I do mean continuing since the ending pretty much promised a part 6.

However I did enjoy the movie for what it was, and I will watch the next one. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Catch-22 and George Clooney coming to Hulu?

Catch-22 has already been adapted several times over the years as a movie, play, and TV show pilot. It is now being adapted once again, but this time by Hulu with George Clooney set to direct and star in it. It will be interesting to see what George Clooney and Hulu do with Joseph Heller’s groundbreaking satirical […]

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Destroy All Humans (PS4)

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Destroy all humans is kind of like a Sci Fi movies from the 60’s or 70’s in video game form.  After a space ship accidentally gets a bit to close to missile launch and knocked out of the sky, our main character Crypto is sent to help save his race by taking over the human race in the name of the Furon Empire so they can extract DNA hidden deep inside humanity so they can save their own race.

The graphics have been updated nicely and the controls work well. The writing has aged well and is pretty funny in its own right, but do not go into this game expecting a serious experience. The very beginning for example sees Crypto attempting to speak with cows since he feels they may be the dominate species. Turns out not so much obviously, the game however is worth playing for many reasons, but I won’t spoil that on you. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Reboots and Remasters?

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Are we finally hitting the point of too many reboots and remasters?  Recently it was announced that Animaniacs would be getting a season 2 on Hulu ( more info here ) And in the last few months we have gotten remasters of Final Fantasy 9 (PS4) a Star Ocean The Last Hope in HD and that is just off the top of my head and we aren’t even counting movies or games of the past few years. But when is this going to far? Believe it or not Peter Pan, The Grinch and even The Crow are supposedly getting reboots this year.

Now i’m not saying reboots or even remasters are bad, as you can see from my FF9 review I loved it, and when I get the time to finish up Star Ocean unless the 2nd half of the game falls apart that will be getting a pretty positive review as well. And I loved Star trek (reboot) but I would like to see some more original ideas tossed out there. Netflix has had some movies that while not perfect were pretty original for example The Babysitter (2017) or Little Evil

By the away sorry about all the links, I doubt anyone will actually read most of them. They are just kind of there in case you want a reference point. I am actually going to take an odd stance I have no seen many take. When it comes to movies, I am not a fan of the reboots coming so much, but in the games I love all these remasters. Many games are being lost to time and new generations simply don’t get to enjoy many of the classics. These remasters give a whole new class of gamers a chance to play them. That being said, remakes are not something I can get behind. As a huge Final Fantasy 7 fan I have very little faith the remake will be good for example. Anyways enough of my rambling, best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

 

Before I Wake (2016)

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Before I wake is one of those movies people will either love or hate, like most Netflix movies really. It tells the story of a husband and wife that choose to foster a child after the death of their son.They soon discover their new foster son has a weird power where his dreams become reality when he sleeps.

As he sleeps they see visions of beautiful butterflys and even their child that died in an accident happy. more than visions tho they can touch these things. Mom becomes slowly more obsessed with staying up to see them, not in a dangerous way but in an unhealthy way to be sure, which dad calls her out on.

The problem with all this, is his nightmares are also very real, and very dangerous. The first to fall victim to this is the school bully that learns sometimes it doesn’t pay to be a dick, and it pays even less to attempt an attack on a sleeping classmate. The movie is a lot of fun and has some great twist and turns to it, and while I al sure it isn’t for everyone I enjoyed it from beginning to end, tho it may be the saddest horror movie every created. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Marshall (2017) — Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews

Freakin’ white people. A young Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) faced one of his greatest, roughest, and toughest challenges while working as a lawyer for the NAACP. Travelling all the way to the ultra-conservative Connecticut for a case in which wealthy socialite Eleanor Strubing (Kate Hudson) accused her black chauffeur, Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown) of […]

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