Artemis Fowl is a science fiction adventure film based on the book series by Eoin Colfer an is directed by Kenneth Branaugh. It stars Ferdia Shaw as the titular character as well as Lara McDonnell, Nonso Anozie, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nikesh Patel, Colin Farrell and Judi Dench.
I admit that I’ve never read the books, I was aware of them based on the title but my review will have to be based on what I’ve seen here.
To sum up, this movie is crap.
Streets of Rage 4 is the latest entry from Sega’s beat ’em up series released way back in the early 90’s and is an excellent throwback to the genre. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m only a slightly good gamer and though I’ve never played any of the previous Streets of Rage games I have pumped my fair share of quarters into beat ’em ups in the past.
So transitioning into this game was fairly simple.
Onward is the latest animated feature from Pixar directed by Dan Scanlon and features the voice talents of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer, Mel Rodriguez and Kyle Bornheimer.
There’s a long held belief that movies and tv shows adapted from video games suck, and honestly, there’s a lot of credence to that. All you have to do is look at stuff like DOA: Dead or Alive, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation or the entire pedigree of Uwe Boll.
This movie almost became another case of this.
Before we begin I’d like to talk a bit about character oversaturation. It’s a recurring thing that often takes place in comics usually when a character starts to become popular, which often leads to the executives demanding that said character appear in as many different books or issues as possible regardless of whether they would fit into the story naturally. This can cause the character they’re trying to shill out to start to overshadow others even within their own story and then you run the risk of making a once popular character into something that’s overdone, tedious and just disliked. Which more often than not will cause those in charge to demand their presence in even more stories, television and movies. At times it feels like they’re slapping you in the face with these characters and demanding that you love them as much as they do.
Both Marvel and DC are guilty of this multiple times, in the 80’s and 90’s you couldn’t seem to get away from Wolverine no matter what corner of the Marvel universe you were in. And Batman would never seem far away from the action regardless of whether it pertained to him or not.
So with that in mind let’s get to the review.
Last time on Gargoyles.
Hudson got his focus episode while playing cat-and-mouse against Demona while carrying a wounded Goliath and juggling flashbacks.
Didn’t know he could multitask.
Continue reading “Review and Analysis: Gargoyles Her Brother’s Keeper”
Happy Halloween everyone! Before we begin the next analysis I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Gargoyles just celebrated it’s 25th anniversary, just last week in fact. Which would make it the Silver Anniversary if I recall correctly. Anyway…
Last time on Gargoyles.
Xanatos and the gargoyles duked it out. Xanatos in a spiffy new battle armor and the gargoyles with just their dukes.
Oh and Elisa got a new partner, a conspiracy theorist named Matt Bluestone.
Continue reading “Review and Analysis: Gargoyles Long Way to Morning”
Now, I feel I should make one thing perfectly clear, I am by no means a professional gamer, or game critic. Heck, I would only say I’m slightly good gamer. But when I heard that not only was the the 1993 sequel to the hit The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past being brought to the Switch but being completely remastered, well I just had to get it. And after playing it I certainly had to write about it.
Continue reading “Game Review: The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening”
Well it’s certainly been a while.
Anyway. Last time on Gargoyles, the clan was forced to leave their ancestral home, Xanatos left prison to return to said home and a new player with his own agenda entered the game.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the sequel to the 2014 film and third in Legendary Pictures’ Monsterverse. It stars Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Bradley Whitford, Thomas Middleditch and Charles Dance with Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins reprising their roles as Dr. Serizawa and Dr. Graham from the 2014 film.
Continue reading “New In Review: Godzilla: King of the Monsters”
