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The Wolverine review

    The Wolverine is a better movie than it has any right to be. After X-men: The Last Stand, the franchise has been on a downward spiral. X-men: First Class was entertaining but a thoroughly flawed...

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X-men: First Class review

    In anticipation of X-men: Days of Future Past, I thought I'd do a review of some of the previous entries in the series. One of the movies I have the most mixed feelings regarding is X-men: First...

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Bite me: Big Easy Nights review

    The Wearing the Cape series is one of my favorite new series. It’s very much like a lighter and softer version of George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series. People are granted superpowers by a...

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Ex-Purgatory review

     Ex-Purgatory is the fourth novel in the popular Ex-Heroes series. It's been fun watching the survivors of a comic book universe deal with a zombie apocalypse and try to slowly rebuild...

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The Amazing Spiderman review

    Warning - nonsensical Spiderman ramblings incomprehensible to the regular reader ahead.    The Amazing Spiderman A.K.A Spiderman Begins. When we saw the trailer for this dark and angsty upgrade to...

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Batman: Arkham Origins review

    Batman is one of the greatest fictional characters of all time and I am allowed to say this because, as a blogger, I can make unsubstantiated statements that I claim to be absolutes (he is,...

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Batman: Arkham Origins: Initiation DLC review

    Batman: Arkham Origins had a somewhat unfinished feel. In addition to the many bugs, there was also the fact some quests ended abruptly, even if the storyline implied the game was building up to...

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Justice League: War review

    Where Wonder Woman is a twit and the Justice League kills a lot of people.    That's my summary of the movie.    I'm usually quite forgiving of big dumb brainless comic book action movies. It's...

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Thief (2014) review

    Thief is a difficult game to review because it's incredibly fun but it's also bugged as hell with a weak storyline. Thief strikes me as a game which needed about six months to a year more added to...

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug review

    The thing about The Hobbit was, when I first read it, I thought it was a parody. Admittedly, I was about seven-years-old and had been introduced to the world of J.R.R Tolkien by a certain Rankin...

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Infamous review

    Before I begin, I should point out something. The game is technically inFamous, which aside from being bad spelling is actually a way of illustrating the game's duality. The lower-case "in" is...

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Infamous 2 review

    Infamous 2 is the next part of my, well, three review series retrospecting the series before giving my thoughts on Infamous: Second Son. I'm a little late in reviewing this but I wanted to make...

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Infamous 2: Festival of Blood DLC

    There is a very rare video game which cannot be improved by the addition of vampires and the Infamous series is no exception. After the emotionally exhausting ending of Infamous 2, I was interested...

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I just signed a contract for three books

Hey guys,    I have great news. I've just signed a three-book contract for my Urban Fantasy/Supernatural Spy Thriller "The Red Room series" with Permuted Press. The first book, Esoterrorism, is going...

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Batman: Year One (animated movie) review

    As a general rule, I believe that adaptation is a matter of being sufficiently skilled with the medium and having a good story. I believe good stories transcend the form of delivery and what makes...

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Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker review

      Metal Gear is one of my favorite video game franchises. I played the original Metal Gear on my Nintendo and tried to keep up with the series as it progressed from console to console. It hasn’t...

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DMC: Devil May Cry review

    I was a big fan of the original Devil May Cry series, though not the actual gameplay. Sadly, until recently, I was a fully Xbox fanboy and only was able to watch the game as well as read the...

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Saints Row IV review

             To take a brief break from my Infamous and Metal Gear Solid reviews, I'm going to discuss a game which is about the closest thing we have to an adaptation of Cole MacGrath's adventures....

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Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes review

    Way back before the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the Sons of Aryas, in the year 2001, there was a teaser demo for a game called Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. This teaser allowed you...

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Blood Shadows review

     Blood Shadows by Lindsay J. Pryor is a novel which straddles the line between Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance. The two genres sometimes fit together quite comfortably while other times feel...

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