Monthly archive for August2019

Fast & Furious 6

Fast & Furious 6

My rewatch and deep-dive into the Fast and Furious universe is going well. In my memory, the 5th movie was perhaps the best overall, so I’m interested to rewatch the subsequent ones to see how they stack up. This is possibly the first sensibly titled…

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What were they thinking – Retro games that feature gambling

What were they thinking – Retro games that feature gambling

It sometimes seems a little too easy for us to look at the games and entertainment aimed at kids today and shake our heads in disbelief. Compared to our own childhoods, things can look over-sanitised, both physically and mentally. The rationale is reasonable enough, but…

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Fast Five

Fast Five

My deep dive rewatch of the #FastandFuriverse continues and now we’re on to the big guns. I remember Fast Five being the film that made me really sit up and take notice of just how big and awesome this franchise had become. I think it…

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007 reasons why I think Sean Connery’s Bond is the coolest

007 reasons why I think Sean Connery’s Bond is the coolest

James Bond, the fictional British Secret Service agent that has featured in 12 novels and two short-story collections by Ian Fleming, an additional eight novels by other authors and transformed to the silver screen in soon-to-be 25 movies. Played by Sean Connery, David Niven, George…

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Fast and Furious

Fast and Furious

After watching the short film Los Bandoleros, I’m now moving on to the next feature film in the Fast and Furious franchise which is confusingly called ‘Fast & Furious’. This is the one film from the whole series that I really couldn’t remember much about…

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