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Christine
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Christine Review

William McPherson

Sometime in high school I read the Stephen King novel ‘Christine’ that this movie was based upon, and I really dug it. This movie for the most part faithfully follows the novel, cutting out a few things, and combining a character or two for the sake of brevity. Christine is a 1958 red and white Plymouth Fury built during a time of American innocence and prosperity, but that somehow became indwelt with evil incarnate. Accidents and deaths follow this car from the moment it rolls off the assembly…

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Swamp Thing
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Swamp Thing Review

William McPherson

Way down in the swamps of Louisiana, Dr. Alec Holland (and his sister) has created a top-secret a secret formula that gives both plants/animals (and humans) that touch it the ability to survive in extreme conditions. It basically takes whatever the core essence of the thing it touches and makes that their super power. Alice, a government agent sent to investigate this process, shows up right when Holland is perfecting his formula, and of course, starts falling in love with him. All this is just…

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Review

William McPherson

Some movies are defined by the age you were when you first saw them. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is just such a movie for me. As a young squire I was blissfully unaware of how absurd it was that Christian Slater and Kevin Costner were portraying classic British legends. I just thought they were cool movie heroes, and I find, I am able to reconnect with those feelings when I re-watch this. On a side note, has Morgan Freeman had one of the longest careers in the niche spot of the “aged character…

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RBI Baseball '15
Game Reviews

R.B.I. Baseball ’15 Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

It's been just about a year since the classic R.B.I. Baseball franchise was resurrected by MLB Advanced Media. I gave last year's title two and a half stars, which is decent/average on our scale. My main complaints with the game from a year ago were the lack of stat tracking and the camera when fielding. In my conclusion from that review I stated, "Hopefully the MLB Advanced Media guys give it another go next year, as there’s a solid foundation in place that they’ll hopefully being able to…

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The Salvation Review

William McPherson

There’s an old divide among western fans that is probably mostly forgotten by modern viewers. A few years back I wrote what I consider to be the review I am the proudest of here, of my all time favorite western, Rio Bravo. Rio Bravo was made as answer to “High Noon” starring Gary Cooper since both Howard Hawks and John Wayne disliked the storyline of the lead hero having to slunk around town asking for help from cowardly townsman for a problem that, according to their more Hemingway like way of…

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BlazeRush
Game Reviews

BlazeRush Review

Gary Smith

BlazeRush is a fast paced action racer with an isometric almost slanted top-down perspective. It harkens back to classic Micro Machines with combat and Mario Kart style boosters. The game features a career mode that largely feels like one big tutorial. Here you'll do things like complete solo laps within a certain amount of time, learn about weapons and power-ups, and of course race against bots. Naturally the actual racing part of the campaign is the best part of it, and it comes in a few…

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Alien Isolation
Game Reviews

Alien Isolation Review

Eric W.

When Alien: Isolation was first announced the reaction of the gaming community was muted with cautious optimism at best coming off of a needless disaster like Colonial Marines that really should have been a fantastic game but unforgivably wasn't. As more footage and information leaked out the sense of optimism grew in spite of itself including from yours truly. The logic was: It can't be any worse than Colonial Marines and it has to be a bounce up. I'm happy to report that broadly speaking this…

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Surgeon Simulator
Game Reviews

Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition Review

Gary Smith

Surgeon Simulator received a lot of buzz when it initially released on PC, not because it was an authentic surgeon simulation game, but because of how absurd it is. After watching videos, I was intrigued and tried out the game. I saw the humor in it, but wasn't a fan because the controls were horrible (by design to a degree) for me. When I heard it was coming to PS4, I knew I wanted it because a controller would be better for me. Note that the game still controls horribly, again by design…

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The Expendables 3 Review

William McPherson

In this third installment of the Expendables franchise we learn a little bit about the origins of Barney Frank and Lee Christmas’ (Stallone and Statham) gang of do-gooder mercenaries. Apparently the team was originally co-founded with Frank by a man named Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson) who eventually tired of being the run around man of various government agencies and decided to form his own crew of “Expendables” to make himself crazy rich/powerful, unfortunately he did this by killing a lot of…

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Unrest
Game Reviews

Unrest Review

Gary Smith

Unrest is an RPG that is vastly different than anything I would usually play. There's no real combat in the game and there are no puzzles to solve. There's no leveling up or experience gained. There's not even one main character to play as. Unrest is set in ancient India during a time of riots and general unrest (hence the name). You'll play as several different characters throughout the game, each broken up into their own chapter(s). You'll move your character through the beautiful hand drawn…

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MouseCraft
Game Reviews

MouseCraft Review

Gary Smith3 Comments

There may be a drought of big release titles on the new gaming consoles, but one thing PS4 isn't lacking is quality indie titles. A couple of these digital games release every month, and July started off hot with the release of MouseCraft from Curve Studios. MouseCraft is a “simple” puzzle game in the vein of something like Lemmings only much more enjoyable in this day and age. You're tasked with helping three mice get past a series of obstacles to get to the cheese. To complete the level, you…

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Sniper Elite 3
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Sniper Elite 3 Review

Eric W.3 Comments

This series is a welcome breath of fresh air against run and gun shooting and you can see from my previous reviews that I'm overall enthusiastic about this series despite some quibbles and annoyances which, unfortunately, remain for this new game. Being a sequel this means I have to be a little less forgiving this time around since there weren't enough fundamental improvements that needed to happen.

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Murdered Soul Suspect
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Murdered Soul Suspect Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Murdered Soul Suspect starts off with a bang, or more accurately, a crash. Detective Ronan O'Connor is thrown out of an upstairs(4th floor I believe) window of an apartment building in Salem, Massachusetts. O'Connor was pursuing the a vicious serial killer known only as The Bell Killer. The multi-story fall didn't kill O'Connor, as The Bell Killer makes his way downstairs and finishes the detective off with several shots from his own gun. As he's about to pass over, O'Connor is greeted by his…

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Blue Estate The Game
Game Reviews

Blue Estate Review

Gary Smith

If you don't know what Blue Estate is (and I didn't), it's a comic book by Viktor Kalvachev. This is a digital only game, based on the comic, by developers HeSaw (from what I can gather, the first game from the Paris based developing studio). It's unlike anything currently available on PS4. That's a good thing for this game, because it has a certain market all to its self. That market is the on-rails shooter market. Popular in arcades, the on-rails “light gun” shooter genre saw a bit of a…

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Sparkle 2
Game Reviews

Sparkle 2 Review

Gary Smith

Match three games have been popular for over a decade now thanks to their addictive simplicity and ultimately their challenge. These types of games come in a few different flavors; some require you to switch adjacent pieces to match three of a color or type (like the Saga series) and others require you to launch a colored object at moving objects to match three or more of a color (like Zuma). Sparkle 2 is in that Zuma category. Sparkle 2 originally released almost a year ago for iOS and Android…

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Bound By Flame
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Bound By Flame Review

Gary Smith

Bound By Flame, the cross-generational RPG from French developing studio Spiders, gets the spotlight for being the first fantasy/action-RPG on PS4. Yes, it's on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, but those systems have plenty of action RPG's (including Spiders own previous outings like Of Orcs and Men, and Mars: War Logs). For PS4 owners with that action itch, this is the only game in town at the moment. Luckily, it's a very good game. To set the stage, I generally play games on either hard (familiar IP's…

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Neighbors
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Neighbors Review

THE MONKEY

Neighbors tells the story of Mac and Kelly Radner (played by Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) who are a couple in their young 30's with a new house and a new baby. Though they miss going out and staying out late with friends to a certain degree they also are very happy with their new life as parents. Then a wrench is thrown into their lives in the way of a frat that moves in next door. At first Mac and Kelly want to appear cool to the college kids rather than come off as the "uncool old couple" but it…

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John Cena
Book Reviews

DK Reader Level 2 – WWE John Cena Second Edition Review

Gary Smith

Over the past few years, WWE has gone PG and began targeting children as an audience and it's a move that has been successful. While kids have always been wrestling fans regardless of the era, now more than ever we're seeing more and more really young kids at WWE events. If you're a parent of a young WWE fan, or you have a sibling, niece, nephew, or grandchild who is a fan of WWE then you should know about the WWE books in the DK Reader series. This series of books are designed to help kids…

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Thief
Game Reviews

Thief Review

Eric W.2 Comments

This is a series that has been on hiatus for too long. Like many other long fans who have held their breath since the mixed bag but IMHO overly hated Dark Shadows, the news of a new Thief game was at first met with jubilation and then as media and details came forth a sense of caution and concerns on certain details. Some of these concerns were well warranted as we have ourselves another mixed bag of a Thief game. I think there's some hate out there that is extremely overblown. I have seen some…

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Homefront
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Homefront Review

William McPherson

There was a much more interesting movie that bookended Homefront’s main story. It was about a long haired Jason Statham infiltrating a biker gang lead by a guy called Danny T, played by Chuck Zito, and it ended with a giant police raid, featuring an intense standoff in which T’s son basically commits suicide by cop as a dozen or so uniformed officers make it rain exploding squibs on his chest while Danny T looks at Statham and swears vengeance. At this point I want the movie to go back in time…

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