Reviews
Humanity’s End Review
Washington’s Wig Review
For what initially seemed a very simple game, a single button game with a single main mechanic, Washington’s Wig has a surprising amount of depth and humour that really helps keep it fresh.
Coming from Team2Bit, who we recently interviewed here on MCM Buzz, Washington’s Wig was the winning game in IGN’s The Next Game Boss video game development talent competition. Teams of game developers were challenged to create a playable game...
Dragon Dynasty Review
When I sat down to watch Dragon Dynasty, I wasn’t sure what to expect. As a film that started life as a Sci-Fi channel original movie, with a budget of around one million dollars, I assumed I should probably go in expecting a cheesy B- movie that was enjoyable in the kind of way that you laugh at how bad it is, rather than as a serious film. As it turns out, the film is most enjoyable when you go in expecting something sort of in between the two.
The...
The Raid review
Sometimes you’ll come across an action film with a stunt that’s so unbelievable that it causes you to gasp in amazement. The Raid will cause the same reaction, except it won’t just happen once, but on numerous occasions throughout the film.
The buzz on The Raid started to build after it played the Toronto Film Festival back in September 2011. For a small film that has come out of Indonesia, with a no holds barred approach to action, it turns...
Safe review
As two police officers receive a call to search for a 12-year old Chinese girl, one of them stereotypically says, “They all look alike to me,” after which Jason Statham suddenly appears to beat him up.
12-year-old Mei (Catherine Chan) is wandering the streets of New York, trying to escape from a group of Russian gangsters. Swooping in to rescue her is Luke Wright (Jason Statham), a former cop turned garbage man, with a shady side as a cage fighter....
Thor: Hammer of the Gods Review
With Marvel’s The Avengers film soon to hit the big screen, one is left with high expectations of any film with “Thor” in the title. However, Thor: Hammer of the Gods was not only just a good film, but when accounting for it being a Syfy low budget TV film, it’s absolutely fantastic.
The premise is simple and yet a new way of telling an age old Nordic story. Thor and his two older brothers Baldur and Ulfrich set sail to a promised land with...
AvX – New Avengers. Issue 24. Comic Book Review
Go Cyclops go!
AvX – New Avengers #24!
It’s odd that Bendis should write such a middling “first” issue of Marvel’s big event for 2012, and then follow up with an absolutely fantastic tie-in issue that the majority of the AvX audience won’t buy.
But he knocks this out of the park.
He also knocks most of the last eight years of Avengers/New Avengers/Mighty Dark Power Avengers comics out of the way, coming out...
Dark Relic Review
I’m going to lead with the fact that Dark Relic been let down by less than low budget CGI, but the overall premise has a lot of potential and the story really does help contribute to make it a worthwhile watch.
The film’s story leads on how a group of crusaders venture home after acquiring a holy relic, a piece of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Adamant to return it to Rome as a gift to his holiness, their journey is constantly hindered...
The Cabin in the Woods review
The Cabin in the Woods is quite a hard film to review. From Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon, it’s the kind of horror film that attempts to show up the big boys by having some kind of surprise stuffed down its pants, and talking about it would only ruin what’s in store. So the less you know, the more you’ll end up saying ‘What the f…’
The simplistic set-up has five friends deciding to take a trip to a secluded cabin in the woods. There’s...
Amazing Spider-Man. Issue 683. Comic Book Review!
Beautiful variant!
ASM #683!
Ends of the Earth, Part Two, appears on the same day as AvX #1. And I can confidently say that ASM #683 has the feel of a unique battle scenario nailed in a way that AvX just doesn’t quite manage.
I think the success of Dan Slott’s run on ASM has to do with how he’s bridging aspects from decades of continuity in a coherent and clever fashion. When you witness Peter Parker using his brain to come up...
