As I mentioned in my previous review of SimCity, creativity is at the heart of the long-standing franchise. Yet it’s hard to let your creative juices flow when your nagging citizen demand non-combustible housing and buses that run on time. What is a megalomaniac public … Continue reading SimCity Societies (2007)
God Games, the megalomania simulator where your every whim is enacted by the most loyal virtual simulations, it is easy to see why they are popular, However, the most prolific games usually get you to recreate a previous successful civilisation’s exploits, but what if you … Continue reading Empire Earth III (2007)
Buddy Cop movies have been the cornerstone of the law enforcement fiction for some time, and even in its early days, the genre had cops partner with children, dogs, and even dinosaurs. In 1988 a relatively small budgeted movie supposed the concept of what would … Continue reading Dead Heat (1988)
Sequels can be hard to crack, with the villain defeated, the characters have evolved for the better, there’s usually nowhere else to go. You can try to escalate the conditions of the original film, but this can be a risky gamble. In 1998, it was … Continue reading I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
The slasher genre has had a long and varied history. Despite some people who argue that the slasher film is horror in its purest form, it has a reputation for being overly gratuitous and underdeveloped popcorn fodder. This perception was bucked when the hit film … Continue reading I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
A lot has changed from 1951 to 2001, the rise of TV, the fall of communism, the expansion of civil rights and as such it is easy to think of the early post-war years as another country. But despite its controversies, there are those who … Continue reading The Majestic (1998)
Rock and Roll has been the epitome of cool for quite some time, certainly for most of my lifetime, even though it is the epitome of an industry that’s full of seedy excesses. What is needed is a tongue-in-cheek look at all the irrationality in … Continue reading The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
