It’s perhaps a bit of a departure from my normal retro topics but I wanted to focus on the subject of Hip Hop for a few posts. The main spur for this is my excitement for the upcoming NWA biopic ‘Straight Outta Compton’ which is…
I had the pleasure yesterday of attending Play Margate, a gaming and retro-gaming event organised by @ReplayEvents. The event was a scaled down version of the bigger Play events in Blackpool and Manchester, but it still had a very good amount of games and things…
It’s not a great movie but it’s not a terrible movie. It’s a brave statement I know, given all the hate that this movie has received from critics. But despite the fact that I am a massive retro gaming fan, and I’m really not a…
I was recently asked by Man Crates to write a post about what I would want in my retro man crate. They’ve got some pretty cool gift ideas on their site and a retro one obviously caught my imagination. So here goes with my Top…
I could mention that there are spoilers in this post, which there are, but if you’ve seen the trailers then it’s basically all been spoiled already anyway! I’ll be totally honest, I really wasn’t all that bothered about watching this film. I just wasn’t all…
Do you like films? Do you like documentaries? Do you like film documentaries? Then listen up. The odds are that you will love Filmumentaries.com. If you haven’t already heard about them you need to check them out. Filmumentaries are the brainchild of Jamie Benning. Not…
I just spent one of the best 30 minutes of my life. Kung Fury is brilliant. Right, let’s back up a little bit here. Back in early 2014, David Sandberg from Sweden launched a Kickstarter campaign to make an 80s parody short film. The initial…
My latest podcast interview has just gone live and this episode is an interview with The Man from Del Monte. Brian Jackson was the actor who played the iconic Man from Del Monte for 7 years throughout the 80s. He kept orange-growers throughout the world…
I’m writing this review with some hesitancy because pretty much everyone else I know loved this movie, critics are gushing about it and Rotten Tomatoes has given it a 98% score. I didn’t quite have the same experience, however, and I feel a bit awkward…
Not so much a movie review, but more a random list of points from my stream of consciousness after seeing it earlier this week. It goes without saying that there are A LOT OF SPOILERS in this post. So please DO NOT READ this post…