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Games Preservation! NFTs And Loot Boxes!! Video Game Unions!!!

This episode is full of things people don’t want in video games - NFTs, loot boxes, unions, games preservation, etc.

EA and FIFA Split! New York Sues Activison Blizzard!! FF16 Versus Elden Ring Part 2???

In a week of profit reports and financials, there's evidence to suggest last week's prediction about Final Fantasy XVI was on the right track

Sometimes you just have to go back to basics in comics, and like the characters out of an old-school fantasy novel, the brotherhood between Marvel’s Thor and a horse-faced alien cyborg is something that has become legend in comics.

But like every good bromance, this one started with a bit of a punch-up.

Join Andrew, Rob and Mick as for this beginner’s guide to the last survivor of the Korbinite…

Credited by some as the Father of the American Independent film, for better or worse, Mark reviews Criterion's new release of John Cassavetes' Husbands.

If you want a divisive film, look no further than Husbands, released on Criterion Blu-ray from June 9th. On it’s release in 1970, John Cassavetes drama polarised critics and audiences alike. Jay Cocks of Time magazine described it as “one of the best movies anyone will ever see. It is certainly the best movie anyone will ever live through”, adding that it was “Cassavetes’ finest work”. Over at the

The 4-Panel gang return with another heaping helping of comics and manga goodness, and this week there’s plenty to talk about.

First up are Marvel’s newest super team and their first few outings in Strikeforce: Trust Me, Jeff Lemire’s new world-crossing barbarian in the first volume of Berserker Unbound, and the first two volumes of Taku Kuwabara’s controversial manga series Drifting Dragons.…

Aidan describes, Distant Journey, the first holocaust movie - "the most unique that I’ve ever seen". Out now from Second Run.

I was intrigued to hear that Alfréd Radok’s Czech drama, Distant Journey, was one of the first films to depict the horrors of the Holocaust. I was left gobsmacked, though, to hear that the film was released in 1949, only a couple years after the Holocaust ended. For Radok to be that fearless by shedding a spotlight on the crimes committed by the Nazis so soon deserves its recognition. And yet,…

The now Oscar-Winning Korean director, Bong Joon-Ho, made his English language debut with this impossibly overdue modern Sci-Fi Classic.

The film now arriving on Blu-ray this week is Snowpiercer. UK Home media apologise for the delay, which was due to a taste failure from Harvey Weinstein.

I mean, there’s late and there’s very late. I actually think I’ve spent a similar amount of time waiting for Snowpierceras I have waiting for the kind of class war it depicts. Filming wrapped on Bong Joon-ho’s loose adaptation of the dystopian…

Weird things happen when you’re locked up, and as usual it’s up to Literary Loitering to … poke gentle fun with a big stick … at the books and arts world.

So what did our stay-at-home cultural anarchists discover before being bamboozled by a barrage of obsolete words? Well, aside from the French authors Leïla Slimani and Marie Darrieussecq (try spelling that in the dark), being called elitist and…

We've all heard of the Spaghetti Western, but what about the French Western? Ewan's reviews one of its biggest titles, Sergio Corbucci's The Specialists

  As I continue to grapple with the tried and tested tropes of the spaghetti western, I find myself more drawn to certain aspects. Shootouts that have a tinge of tension to them, but at the same time manage to incorporate darker, underlying motifs. For a Few Dollars More fits the bill in that regard. Engaging, memorable characters are also a truly rewarding trope, as witnessed with the Sartanaser…

A none-more-60s reissue from StudioCanal, The Family Way has Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and music from a promising young lad called Paul McCartney.

It’s perhaps a measure of how London-centric our society is that if you were to mention playwright Bill Naughton to anyone then those who had heard of him at least would tell you that he wrote Alfie, the 1963 stageplay about a cockney Casanova that has been twice made into a film; firstly in 1966 with Michael Caine in the lead role, and a remake in 2004 starring Jude Law, the least of which said,…

Meet the major Japanese Ghost Story, Kwaidan. Also happens to be one of the best movies of the 1960s too.

Before Hideo Nakata changed all the rules for what it means for an Asian Horror movie to court worldwide notoriety, Kwaidan was the Japanese ghost story that put the country on the map. I still think there’s an argument to be made that this is still is the case as Ringu is more concerned with the mystery and curses; two themes that have gone on to define Japanese horror since the turn of the…

Roger Corman was better known as a producer, but that didn't stop him from directing some iconic movies.

Roger Corman will surely go down as one of the best movie producers of all time. Through his 250+ credits, he was at the forefront of developing the B-Movie and gave breaks to a whos-who of actors and directors, Jack Nicholson and Avatar & Aliens director, James Cameron counting among the highest-profile. His influence is impossible to neglect.

As a director, it would be impossible for anyone to…

These are strange times that we live in, but during these days of pandemic, social distancing and lockdowns, it’s nice to find that the world of culture is still just as strange as it ever was.

This week the gang are bamboozled by a barrage of old words, but before that things like publishing a chapter per day on Vogue’s website, book fairies, dial-a-miracle, digital rectum removal in musicals…

There's a whole lot more to John Ford than classic Westerns. Indicator's new Blu-Ray box set unearths four rewarding curios from his long career.

“My name’s John Ford. I make Westerns. I don’t think there’s anyone in this room who knows more about what the American public wants than Cecil B. DeMille – and he certainly knows how to give it to them. But I don’t like you, C.B. I don’t like what you stand for and I don’t like what you’ve been saying here tonight.”

That speech, which could have come straight out of one of Ford’s cowboy movies,…

Mark is back with another deep dive of a lost classic. This time he turns his attention to new Indicator title, The Strange One.

The Strange One was one of only two feature films directed by Jack Garfien, an Auschwitz survivor who sadly passed away on December 30th last year, aged 89. Based upon the novel and play End as a Man(the title the film was released under in UK cinemas) by Calder Willingham, it tells the story of Jocko De Paris (a spellbinding Ben Gazzara in his movie debut), an insidiously manipulative Cadet…

Good news for all you John Ford fans, we have a lot of articles about him on the site in the coming days. Up first? Ewan with Rio Grande.

Rounding off any trilogy is no easy feat for any director, producer or star. Although John Ford’s inadvertent and seemingly accidental triumph through his Cavalry trilogy isn’t connected through the storylines, the characters and expected interactions of the genre are built up in equally vivid and cold ways in previous entries. Fort Apacheprovided some solid groundwork, building on John Wayne’s…