Kurosawa’s ode to Shakespeare’s Macbeth follows the tale beat for beat in a Japanese context, set during the warring states period rife with betrayal and shifting alliances.
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Review: Throne of Blood
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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Slayers: a review & RPG discourse
This is both a semi-review of the original 26 episode first season of Slayers, and an observation of the mopey state of RPGs. The jist of it is: RPGs should be more like Slayers.
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Game review: Final Fantasy XIII-2
FFXIII got a lot of negative feedback upon release. By the time I got round to playing it I was expecting the worse. Instead, what I experienced was a passable and somewhat entertaining story told with style. Its major criticism was its linearity. The ‘corridor shooter’ of RPGs! Well, I’d rather that than an open world game with no story. (hello Dark Souls, ‘sup?)
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Review: Body of Lies
As this film began I wondered how I had missed a Ridley Scott film back in 2008, and by the midway point I remembered: there was nothing unique, compelling or memorable about it from the trailers, and by the end the same could be said for the film as a whole.
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Stop updating shit for the sake of updating shit
Every single website and software falls for the same trap. They decide to make a massive update. Not an essential update relating to security, but an aesthetic one that ruins the experience and sends visitors fleeing for the hills.
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Game blog: Playing after the dust has settled
This is increasingly becoming a tired topic, but worth bringing up to explain why this website’s game reviews are not for timely releases. I have a rule to not buy any game as soon as its released, and the reason for that is simple and painfully obvious when you look at the current gaming landscape.
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Review: The Hidden Fortress
Many things went through my mind as I began to watch Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 chanbara film, set during Japan’s warring states period.
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Review: Side Effects
Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects is a hard pill to swallow knowing it’s his last feature film before his retirement from the cinematic medium.
Review: Identity Thief
Reviewed for film-news.co.uk.
DVD review: People Like Us
Reviewed for film-news.co.uk.
People Like Us features dialogue and plot lines that are trite and predictable, though is elevated by hot young talent and veteran actors. Not knowing anything about the film I was surprised to see the likes of Philip Baker Hall and Michelle Pfeiffer brushing with Chris Pine and Olivia Wilde.
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