Do Dom Pachi
While catching up on Simon Parkin’s excellent podcast, My Perfect Console, guest Iain Cook of CHVRCHES, chose DoDonPachi DaiOuJou. I’d never heard of the DomPachi games, but I found that…
Mario Wonder
So glad 2D Mario is alive and well. Had the best time playing it with the kids yesterday. I particularly like how much friendlier the multiplayer is: you can’t really…
Trek to Yomi review
Trek to Yomi is included with PlayStation Plus and since I’m bogged down with Bloodborne, I thought I would give it a wee shot. I didn’t know if I would…
Game Till Five podcast
Game podcasts are still depressingly male. Even the best usually have a solitary female amongst the blokes, like Lucy James or Maddy Myers, so I literally found Game Till Five…
Recommendation: MusicSmart
I still think streaming doesn’t properly respect liner notes, even on Apple’s new Classical music app (which often credits the notes’ authors without giving you the notes themselves). This app…
Reservation Dogs
Finished Reservation Dogs last night. Season 2 makes the already great Season 1 even better: plot threads and character beats are developed to deep effect, and I’m grateful now for…
Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Leonardo Da Vinci is wonderful. It’s long, but it needs to be. It’s given me an appreciation of the master’s life, work and political context (you…
Mulholland Drive
I don’t know what in the hell is really happening in Mulholland Drive. Maybe nothing is. Screenwriting manuals would lead us to believe that what it does is invalid, that…
Mad Max: Fury Road
Previous instalments: Intro Mad Max Mad Max 2 Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome Holy fuck. I’m really, really mad at myself: if I’d been up to speed with the three others…
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Previous instalments: Intro Mad Max Mad Max 2 If Road Warior is the series’ Wrath of Khan, Beyond Thunderdome is its Search for Spock: pretty good, with some inspired moments…