How do you take a silent film, that’s one of the most iconic works of German Expressionist cinema alongside the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, remake it in late ’70s and in color, and have it work just as well? You have Werner Herzog do it, apparently. Continue reading
Tali re-joins the party as we board the Geth dreadnaught.
This time we’re covering issue #46 of Nintendo Power for March of 1993. Continue reading
This time we meet up with the Quarian fleet.
Film Review: Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The 1925 film version of The Phantom of the Opera is a film which, I think gets the Phantom himself much better than some of the later interpretations of the story. It gets the horrific side of the Phantom right, without over romanticising him. Continue reading
Book Review: The Last Command
We come now to the conclusion of the Thrawn trilogy. Continue reading
This time we meet back up with Zaeed and force another hard deal.
On a special episode of Legends of the Force, I give my thoughts on Rogue One, a film which in the new-continuity provides a new telling of events that we previously saw in Legends – the theft of the Death Star Plans. Continue reading
This time we’re completing some side-quests around the citadel.
Book Review: Dark Force Rising
We continue with the Thrawn trilogy with the second installment. Continue reading
Film Review: The Omega Man (1971)
The Omega Man is a weird film to think about in the wake of the presidential election. It’s a film that is as counter-cultural as it is against the counter-culture, with a protagonist who, as a character, very heavily represents the establishment, and who is played by an actor whose later life left him intrinsically linked, in a way, with the establishment. Continue reading
This time we do a little busy work to find some various items throughout the galaxy to help out the war effort.
This time we take a look at the first batch of Star Wars novels that George Lucas wasn’t directly involved in – the Han Solo Adventures trilogy. Continue reading
This time we reunite with Jacob and rescue defecting ex-Cerberus scientists from certain death.
Film Review: Tales from the Crypt (1972)
One of the strengths of the anthology film in horror, is that horror works really well in short form. It is almost as much the medium of the short story the way that Science Fiction is the realm of the novella and novel, and heroic fantasy is the realm of the novel. This is also why the horror comics of the 50s and 60s leant themselves well to anthology TV series and the anthology film in particular. Continue reading
Film Review: God Told Me To (1976)
God Told Me To is an interesting exploitation film. On the one hand, it’s a pretty clear-cut science fiction film on a lot of levels, but on another hand, it has some interesting concepts it plays with with societal paranoia and copycat crimes that gives it a bit of depth. Continue reading
This time we head to save an Asari Monastery, and follow up on-board the Normandy.
This week, in a special episode of Nintendo Power Retrospectives, I’m taking a look at the companion book to the NES Classic all-in-one console, from Prima. Continue reading
This time we finish getting our stuff together and head out for our next set of missions.
Book Review: Heir to the Empire
We now come to the beginning of the Star Wars Expanded Universe as we know it. Continue reading
Film Review: Extraordinary Tales
I really like anthology films – particularly when it comes to horror. Anthology films let you take a brief period of time to tell an exciting, concise story that can scare you, excite you, or creep you out. Perhaps this is due to many great horror stories being short stories. One of the masters of the horror story was Edgar Allen Poe. This brings me to Extraordinary Tales, an animated anthology film adaptation 5 of Poe’s short stories. Continue reading
This time we’re covering issue #45 of Nintendo Power for February of 1993.
Note: I forgot Nester’s Adventures this issue – I apologize. Continue reading
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 33 – Picking up the Pieces
This time we deal with some of the aftermath of the attack on the Citadel.
Film Review: King Kong (1933)
King Kong is a film that is widely held as a classic of cinema – with some of the iconic monster photography in cinema. It is a film whose visual effects have held up very, very well, but narratively hasn’t held up quite as much.