The latest trailer for CHAPPiE was released a few days ago and it looks pretty awesome. It’s the latest work from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. The film, starring Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver and Dev Patel, is set in the near future, where an intelligent…
Yesterday I was pretty excited to take our kids to go see David Hasselhoff playing Captain Hook in the Peter Pan pantomime at my local theatre. But, let’s just backtrack for a minute for my American friends… Just what exactly is a pantomime? A pantomime…
I’ve already posted this week about starting to build my own home arcade machine, and then I also posted about my Top Ten Arcade Games. But to round up my flurry of arcade posts this week I wanted to write one which was almost a…
After posting a few days ago about my plan to build my own home arcade machine I thought I would do a Top Ten based on my own favourite arcade machines. Donkey Kong just has to be on the list. It’s the first appearance of…
I’m setting myself the challenge this year to do something that I’ve wanted to do for ages… Build my own arcade machine. I’ve had this on my list for about 5 years now and I feel that this year is the year to do it….
Today is a special day. 30 years after the original game was released, a new version of Elite has just been launched. (and it’s so popular that at the time of writing, the website was down – keep trying) Elite is without doubt my all…
I was wondering what I could do around Christmas on the blog that was a bit special, so I decided to make a Retromash Advent Calendar. Each day you will get an absolute gem straight from the pages of the Argos Catalogues. Something that you…
Or more accurately, when would I go? This is the last post of my Time Travel Week and is the culmination of all my research and thoughts about time travel lately. If I actually did have some kind of time machine then where, or when,…
Time Travel can be such a complex beast that sometimes it’s handy to have it visualised in a more graphical way. Infographics are a great way of representing data and there are some very cool ones about time travel. I’ve put links in the text…
This is one of the posts from my Time Travel Week that I have really been looking forward to. So much so in fact that I have watched or rewatched about 12 time travel movies over the past 2 months to prepare. I still haven’t…