We’re continuing with Marvel’s Star Wars comics with the books published between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Read more
Legends of the Force: Episode 4 – Marvel Star Wars Part 2: The Hunt for Han Solo
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 45 – Neuromancer
This time we’re jacking into the Geth Consensus to shut down their fighters, and maybe do a little extra.
Book Review: I, Strahd – The Memoirs of a Vampire (1995)
Gaming licensed fiction is hit and miss. For every Dragonlance Chronicles, you get a bunch of Darkwalker on Moonshaes. With the AD&D campaign setting of Ravenloft, which was born out of an adventure by Tracy & Laura Hickman, one would think that the novel focusing on the character from whom the setting was born would be written by the creator of that character – particularly when Tracy Hickman had gone on to co-create Dragonlance with Margaret Weis and would go on to co-write a bunch of New York Times bestselling novels. Instead, they went with a writer who also had also worked with TSR, and who had a strong track record writing gothic horror vampire fiction – P. N. Elrod. Read more
Film Review: Westworld (1973)
Michael Crichton has never encountered a piece of technology that didn’t scare the crap out of him, to such a degree that he reminds me a lot of H.P. Lovecraft. Read more
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 44 – On The Bounce
A Quarian Admiral has been downed on Rannoch, and we head down the planet to rescue him.
Book Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Book 1, Dawn
This week I’m giving my thoughts on the first novel in the Legends of the Galactic Heroes series. Read more
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 43 – The Dark Side of the Sun
This time we’re checking out a fuel depot that has gone offline.
Comic Review: Dark Empire I
With the conclusion of the Thrawn trilogy, we’re now taking a look at the comic series that came out more or less contemporaneously with that series – Dark Horse Comics’ first outing in the Star Wars universe – Dark Empire. Read more
Film Review: Nosferatu the Vampyre
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. Read more
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 42 – “…they were scrutinized and studied,”
Tali re-joins the party as we board the Geth dreadnaught.
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 62
This time we’re covering issue #46 of Nintendo Power for March of 1993. Read more
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 41 – …about their various concerns…
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. Read more
Book Review: The Last Command
We come now to the conclusion of the Thrawn trilogy. Read more
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 40 – Let’s Make A Deal
This time we meet back up with Zaeed and force another hard deal.
Legends of The Force Special: Star Wars Rogue One Vlog Review
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. Read more
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 39 – Bantha Trading
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. Read more
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. Read more
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 38 – The Chase
This time we do a little busy work to find some various items throughout the galaxy to help out the war effort.
Legends of the Force: Episode III – The Han Solo Adventures
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. Read more
Let’s Play Mass Effect 3: Part 37 – The First Transport Is Away
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. Read more
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. Read more