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Anna Kendrick Noelle
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Noelle Review

Gary Smith

Originally slated for a theatrical release, Disney made the decision to go with Noelle as the first live-action, original movie for their Disney+ streaming service. With the service launching on November 12th, it was definitely a good decision by Disney because November and December are months when folks like to watch Christmas movies. Also a good decision because Anna Kendrick brings some name value to the service's first original film, and also because Noelle is better suited for at home…

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Wild Card (2015) Review

William McPherson

Nick Wild is a Las Vegas bodyguard with a gambling addiction, and an action movie hero addiction as well. Dreaming of escaping this seedy world so he can sail a yacht around Corsica, he earns money through cutesy side jobs like helping losers get laid by letting them beat him up in front of their girlfriends, while serving as the “Mike” Jason Alexander’s “Better Call Saul” character. The “Gus” of their world is a mysterious gangster known only as “Baby” who runs the entire local Vegas…

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Game Reviews

Sniper Elite V2 Remastered Review

Gary Smith

Sniper Elite V2 first released way back in May 2012 for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Two more mainline additions and seven years later, Sniper Elite V2 has been remastered for PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Is the trip back to 1945 Berlin and the final days of World War II worth it? The short answer is, it depends. If you never played Sniper Elite V2, then the Remastered is worth picking up if you enjoy the series. If you have played V2 on one of its original platforms, then you can probably…

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Run All Night
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Run All Night Review

William McPherson2 Comments

Liam Neeson, as I have stated before, is my jam. If Robert Mitchum or Charles Bronson were still around I would have a harder choice, but since they’re not, Liam is the undisputed king of my favorite hard asses. Ed Harris is also up there, and this movie brings the two of them together as an aging gangster and hitman, both of with grown up children who wind up in a really tight bind, one night in the city. Harris plays an aging gangster who laments the fact that all of the locally owned…

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Call of Cthulhu
Game Reviews

Call of Cthulhu Review

Gary Smith

Wayback in February 1928, the pulp magazine Weird Tales featured a short story from H.P. Lovecraft titled "The Call of Cthulhu." In the 90 years since then, Cthulhu has been expanded on and the Cthulhu Mythos have transitioned to essentially every form of entertainment. In 1981, Chaosium released the first edition of the Call of Cthulhu pen-and-paper RPG. Seven editions later and with multiple scenarios and supplements, it remains a popular choice for fans of tabletop RPG's. Cyanide Studios'…

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RBI Baseball '18
Game Reviews

RBI Baseball ’18 Review

Gary Smith

It's time once again for baseball season, and that means PlayStation owners can pick up MLB The Show and everyone else is stuck with RBI Baseball for their MLB gaming fix. Of course RBI Baseball is on PS4 as well, and that's the version this review is based on. I've reviewed every single one of these games. Last year was the shortest game review I ever wrote; it was essentially the exact same game as the 2016 version. Here's what I said about the game last year: "If you’ve ever played an RBI…

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Destiny 2
Game Reviews

Destiny 2 Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Destiny 2 has been out for over a month, and I feel like it's the time for me to finally get this full review out even if it is "late" (although the PC version doesn't release for another week). I came into Destiny 2 as a hardcore, dedicated Destiny player with over 2,500 hours logged in the first game. It's because of my love of the game, or franchise, that this review will be the longest one we have ever published and will tackle the game from different perspectives and dive deep into…

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Spellspire
Game Reviews

Spellspire Review

Gary Smith

Finnish based developers 10tons Ltd. are back again with their latest game on console, Spellspire. Like practically every 10tons game, Spellspire offers up fun when you just have a little bit of time to game and can't really get into a 45 minute mission in a "bigger game." That's one thing I love about games made by 10tons, you can spend a lot of time playing them but have it be spread out over short chunks of time. Slow and steady progress without spending time trying to rush to get to a save…

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Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
Game Reviews

Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 Review

Gary Smith4 Comments

CI Games released their first Sniper Ghost Warrior game back in 2010 and followed it up with a sequel in 2013. I didn't play the first one, but I did the second one. It wasn't particularly good. Now some four years later, and after a few delays, CI Games has released the third entry into the Sniper Ghost Warrior franchise and the good news is that it's certainly better than its predecessor. I applaud CI Games for taking a step and making an effort to make this a "full AAA production." You always…

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The WWE Book of Top 10's
Book Reviews

The WWE Book of Top 10’s Review

Gary Smith

The partnership between WWE and DK Publishing has produced some of the best wrestling books on the market and certainly the highest quality ones. The two are set to release the latest in that line on May 9th when The WWE Book of Top 10's becomes available. It is exactly what it's titled, a list book of top 10's. There's about 200 pages and 100 lists here. This isn't the in-depth historical type books we've come to expect from the DK/WWE partnership, but just a fun look back at some past WWE and…

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Vikings: Wolves of Midgard
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Vikings – Wolves of Midgard Review

Gary Smith

Vikings: Wolves of Midgard is an action-RPG developed by Games Farm, a studio from Slovak Republic best known for the Air Conflict series as well as the ARPG Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms. Vikings has drawn a lot of early comparisons to Diablo, and for good reason. Of course Diablo isn't the only game in this particular genre, but it is the biggest name on the block. Here we have that established formula set in some classic Norse mythology. "Diablo with Vikings" is how some have described it. Now…

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Yakuza 0 Review
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Yakuza 0 Review

Gary Smith

Yakuza 0 is a niche game designed for a Japanese audience first, it's extremely story heavy, and it does have some outdated design mechanics/elements and even graphics (it kinda feels like a remastered PS2 game). If you can get into it though, you're likely to find a very engrossing experience with a lot to offer. If you're like me though, you're probably going to have a hard time getting into it as a newcomer to the series.

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RBI Baseball '16 Review
Game Reviews

R.B.I. Baseball ’16 Review

Gary Smith

It's kinda hard to review R.B.I. Baseball '16, the third entry in the series resurrected by MLB Advanced Media back in 2014. And the reason it's hard is because I've already reviewed it, last year. In fact, I've reviewed both 2014 and 2015. The 2014 version was a solid foundation of old school video game baseball. The 2015 version made some significant upgrades to add to that already solid foundation. This year's game feels exactly like last year's game. And to be honest, that's okay with me…

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Shocker Review

William McPherson

This may surprise some people, but Shocker is one of my all time favorite movies from the late great Wes Craven. I first got hooked on it during late night showings on basic cable back when I was growing up. The story is a little bit like Nightmare On Elm Street, in fact you might even call it a rip-off (but if anyone’s allowed to ripoff that movie, who else is it gonna be, right?). That said this movie rocked my socks growing up. Anyway, onto the plot. Horace Pinker (very punny title for the…

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Trick r’ Treat Review

William McPherson

In Halloween 3, John Carpenter wanted to turn the Halloween franchise into a kind of Twilight Zone series of interconnected but unrelated horror stories that just happened to fall on Halloween. Unfortunately, this was after the Michael Myers character had already taken a deep hold over the series. I think Trick R' Treat however, is exactly the kind of movie he had hoped for with H3. This movie takes a series of spooktacular stories including seductive she-wolves, child-ghost monsters, serial…

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The Final Girls
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The Final Girls Review

William McPherson2 Comments

If I tell you this movie is like Scream filtered through the world of Last Action Hero, I will have given you the premise of this movie, but will have told you nothing about its heart. This movie is a parody of the classic 80s slasher genre, but, as strange as it may sound, a good natured and emotionally poignant one that clearly wears its’ heart on its sleeve. Taissa Farmiga (daughter of the beatiful and talented Vera Farmiga) plays Max, the daughter of Amanda Cartwright (Marin Akerman) a lady…

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Halloween H20
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Halloween H20 Review

William McPherson

With a title like ‘Halloween H20’ featuring a mass murderer stalking a college campus I wish I could say this movie was about Michael Myers stalking the campus of South Central Louisiana State University doing battle with Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) with Bobby’s mom (Kathy Bates) taking over the Donald Pleasance role of reminding us that Myers is pure evil…"That Michael Myers, is THE DEVIL, Bobby!” and Henry Winkler drawing up plays to stop the carnage. Alas this movie is neither that, nor is…

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Halloween 4 Featured
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Review

William McPherson

Halloween 4 is the movie that brought the Halloween franchise into the same slasher-fest league as the movies that had imitated it. Whether or not that’s a good thing depends on how big a fan you are of these kinds of flicks. John Carpenter had big Twilight Zone like ideas for the series, of which H4 was supposed to be a ghost story—but after the abysmal failure of the third entry in the franchise, the producers and Mr. Carpenter decide to give the masses what they want—more Michael Myers. Never…

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Halloween 2
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Halloween 2 Review

William McPherson1 Comment

This is generally how I prefer sequels to be done. Halloween 2 picks up directly where the original left off, bringing back most of the original characters (those that survived) from Halloween and setting them up for a new round of terror. Most of the action this time out takes place at the local hospital, which makes for a great place for a horror flick. One thing this movie has going against it right off the bat is that, while John Carpenter stayed on to write this sequel, he did not direct…

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Jason X
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Jason X Review

William McPherson

The folks at Digital Dream Door have this movie at number 35 on their list of the 100 worst movies ever made. In his review of this movie Roger Ebert echoes the meta qualities of a quote of one of the characters who, right before being eviscerated by a giant space vacuum screams “This sucks on so many levels!”… I have to say while I agree that yes, this movie is not good in that traditional sense of the word, for what it is (that being a ridiculous crossover genre monster movie like they used to…

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