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WWE Encyclopedia 3rd Edition
Book Reviews

WWE Encyclopedia 3rd Edition Review

Gary Smith

Wrestling fans rejoice - the 3rd Edition of the WWE Encyclopedia is finally here. Back in 2009, WWE and DK teamed up to bring wrestling fans the first ever WWE Encyclopedia. At the time it was "the definitive guide to World Wrestling Entertainment," and it was truly a must have for any wrestling fan as it covered everything in WWE history to that point in 364 pages. Three years later, in 2012, the partnership released the 2nd Edition of the WWE Encyclopedia. That was the "updated and expanded…

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Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Game Reviews

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Review

Eric W.1 Comment

Back when it came out I and many other people considered Black Flag a watershed for the series and rightfully. Simply put: This is the next watershed and if they can continue to crank out games like this at this level of quality the I hope they making these games for as long as they sell because I'll never get tired of something like this. I'll welcome a game like this every year with wide open arms.

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FPS Freek Galaxy
Game Reviews

Gaming Accessories: FPS Freek Galaxy Review

Gary Smith

A few years ago I wrote a little piece about FPS Freek Havoc and Infinity thumbstick grips for PS3 and I really liked them. But, like the PS3 itself, they've been pushed aside (well actually one of the Havoc's broke sometime early last year and that was my fault). Out of the box, the Dualshock 4 is an all around better controller than the Dualshock 3 and that includes the thumbsticks. I like the thumbsticks on the DS4 as they are, but like a lot of gamers I've had to replace a controller due to…

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Destiny The Taken King
Game Reviews

Destiny – The Taken King Review

Gary Smith

A little over a year ago I posted my review of vanilla Destiny, which I gave a superb 4.5 star rating. That review encompassed the game from launch to three weeks after launch with a little over 85 hours invested in it and having done everything but the raid. Now here we are a month and a half removed from the release of Destiny’s first major expansion, The Taken King, and it is time to review it all over again.

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Nosferatu Banner
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Nosferatu Review

William McPherson

While far be it from me to condone direct theft/plagiarism, I will say here, that even though this movie was a direct rip-off of Bram Stroker’s Dracula, as a motion picture, it remains superior to any subsequent attempt to film the Dracula story, even to this day. This is another review from the big 50-pack horror movie box set I bought a few weeks back. This was one the wife insisted on, and I could tell from the smile on her face that she enjoyed this one quite a bit. How times change, as 90…

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Evil Dead 2 Review

William McPherson

Still trapped in the same cabin from part one, Ash, the sole survivor from last time out, still finds himself battling the undead. To keep things interesting a few interlopers and visitors pop up here and there, but mostly, this is Ashley’s inner-badass coming out party bay-bay. Evil Dead 2 is the film most people think of when they think of the Evil Dead franchise in all of its gratuitous green-blood-spewing glory. The first film was a straight up horror movie that was put over the top by…

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Evil Dead
Entertainment

The Evil Dead Review

William McPherson

As we get nearer to Halloween, I was struggling to think of more horror titles to fit in with the QDR series when the ‘Evil Dead’ franchise popped in my head. This works as a double tie-in with the Halloween season, plus the new TV series starting this fall starring none other than Mr. Bruce Campbell in the role that only he can play. My man-crush on Mr. Campbell is both deep and creepy. (Call me!) Anyway, this was the flick that started it all for both Bruce and director Sam Raimi. Five…

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Knights of the Old Republic
Game Reviews

Star Wars – Knights of the Old Republic Review

Gary Smith

Seven years. That's how long I considered Knights of the Old Republic my all-time favorite video game. It's still a top five, but it was knocked off by Red Dead Redemption back in 2010. Still, that's a good amount of time considering during that seven year (well almost) span a lot of really great games were released. They just weren't better than Knights of the Old Republic to me. I wasn't into gaming websites in 2003, but I did read some magazines (GamePro, Tips & Tricks, and of course Xbox…

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Metal Gear Solid V
Game Reviews

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Review

Eric W.

What do you get when you cross the best elements out of a Grand Theft Auto game, the Metal Gear series, stealth games like Splinter Cell,  and for grins an almost MMO lite online mode for a bonus? You get Metal Gear V: The Phantom Pain which is easily in contention for Game of the Year even up against stiff competition like Witcher 3. GRAPHICS: Stunning. Simply stunning. It's becoming a cliche which is a good thing that games like this or Witcher 3 come out that push the envelope and game…

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Leaving Las Vegas
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Leaving Las Vegas Review

William McPherson

Ben is a divorced screenwriter, recently fired, who has given up on life altogether. A chronic alcoholic, he has decided to take what money he has left and go to Vegas where he plans on drinking himself into an oblivion. Along the way he meets a Vegas hooker named Sera (Elizabeth Shoe) who takes pity on him, and he on her, and they begin a romance so emotionally raw and messed up that it makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like a nursery rhyme. Nicholas Cage has starred in a ton of pointless, lousy…

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No Country for Old Men
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No Country For Old Men Review

William McPherson3 Comments

I was a little younger when I first saw this movie, and I did not fully appreciate it to the extent I do now. I was watching it expecting a satisfying formulaic action movie, and of course, if you watch No Country For Old Men expecting that, you are going to walk out pissed. In a way though I am glad I had the original experience with the film because now I can look back on how my emotions were so expertly towed with without my being as aware of the manipulation as I would be now. This is far…

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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The Witcher III – Wild Hunt Review

Eric W.

This gaming series has been a frustration for me. Frustrating because I have played and tried each game in this series and did my darnedest to fall in love with the games and just couldn't because some of the gameplay and combat mechanics were not to my liking. I just couldn't get on board and get excited. Until now. The third time really is the charm for me and likely a lot of other people out there judging by the feedback I have been able to gauge since the game came out. The reason this…

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Stand By Me
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Stand By Me Review

William McPherson6 Comments

Some of my most sacred childhood memories involve walking the local railroad tracks, most of the time with my dad trailing not that far behind. I grew up in the early to mid 90s, so it was not quite the same odyssey that the characters in this movie experience, but I get very fond nostalgia flashbacks whenever I think about this film. This is one of those universal movies that is for us, what Mark Twain’s Huck Finn was for the generation a hundred years before us. The story involves four…

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The Public Enemy
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The Public Enemy Review

William McPherson4 Comments

This is a story of two kids, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, who begin a life in crime early on. One of them winds up going straight and becomes a policemen, the other winds up a crook. You can guess which one James Cagney plays. This movie is over eighty years old but still feels fresher and more original than at least half of the movies I see on a given year. The aesthetics and cinematography are astoundingly good for a movie this old, and the movie flows like a modern Scorsese gangster film, which…

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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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The Man Who Knew Too Much Review

William McPherson4 Comments

Dr. Ben McKenna, (James Stewart) goes on holiday with his wife (Doris Day) and son in Morocco where they bump into a couple of strangers who will forever alter the course of their lives. The stranger winds up dead, and when they attempt to report his death they wind up mixed up in an assassination plot far bigger than they could have imagined. In order to shut them up, their young son is kidnapped, which takes them on a globe hopping hunt to find him. Talk about a tourist trap. This is one of…

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Jeremiah Johnson
Entertainment

Jeremiah Johnson Review

William McPherson

Jeremiah Johnson is an overlooked northern western that tells the story of a man who leaves behind one society for a simpler life, but soon finds that simple definitely does not equate to easy. Johnson is played by Robert Redford in a role that he absolutely owns from beginning to end. This is one of the films I use a bench mark whenever I reference any other film of the same genre being “beautifully photographed” or having superb cinematography. Jeremiah Johnson creates a world and a landscape…

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Once Upon a Time in the West
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Once Upon a Time in the West Review

William McPherson2 Comments

When I think back on the elements that most of my favorite westerns share, a few things come back time and time again in nearly each of them. First, great cinematography and epic settings. Check. Then you must have a memorable score such as the whistling in the “Dollars” trilogy or the old standard title songs from “My Darling Clementine” and others. This movie has one of the most dramatic and enduring scores of any movie ever. What makes it even more effective that it goes against the grain of…

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Grand Theft Auto V
Game Reviews

Grand Theft Auto V (PS4) Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Rockstar wowed the majority of us a year ago when they released Grand Theft Auto V on PS3 and Xbox 360. Even on old hardware, it was an excellent looking game that still looks better than some games released on the new systems. Now that Rockstar has released the game for PS4 and Xbox One, it looks even better. For starters, there's increased detail for everything. Textures are better, overall image quality is greatly improved thanks to anti-aliasing. There's greater draw distance, and even…

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The Last of Us
Game Reviews

The Last of Us Remastered Review

Gary Smith4 Comments

The Last of Us was an undeniable hit when it landed a year ago on PS3, both with PS3 owners and critics. The game received perfect scores galore (including from me) and over 200 Game of the Year awards (again, including mine). For me, it was one of the swan songs for the PS3. It was no surprise then earlier this year when The Last of Us Remastered was announced for PS4. After all, the system has been selling very well, and a lot of PS4 owners never owned a PS3. With the updated and more powerful…

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Easy Rider
Entertainment

Easy Rider Review

William McPherson

One of my favorite mini-genres of movies is the latter day western. In these types of movies, set normally in the early 20th century, you see the last of the true cowboys fighting the expansion/encroachment on their way of life that was surely coming with the rapidly advancing technology and population boom of that time. There’s indeed something quite romantic about being the last of a particular breed, at the closing epoch of a famous era. Easy Rider is that kind of movie, but for the 1960s…

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