In recent years I have notice an increase in the number and popularity of “sim-games” and, to an extent, I would say it awkwardly makes sense – let me explain. First and foremost, although ideologically one could argue that any game is in itself a simulation, what I am referring to within this specific context…
Year: 2025
2 Hard 2 Christmas
The year started off with a movie starring Bruce Willis, so it might as well end with one, and since I have already memed on the fact that the first Die Hard can be considered a ‘Christmas movie’, I am here to argue the same thing about Die Hard 2. It was directed by Renny…
Superhero hotline
Recently Dispatch came out, a game that I had my eyes on since the cast was announce. Within the first week or so, it sold about a million copies and still has overwhelmingly positive reviews; although these are not the statistics I use to judge a game, they are still indicative of its success. I…
Rascal doesn’t dream…period
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Sempai is an anime that came out back in 2018 and one would assume that with a name like that it would have had much more visibility (for the better or worse of it). Although it has its popularity, it is nowhere near as famous as it should…
The ecstasy of Gold
The Road to El Dorado (2000) is an animation musical movie that this very year reaches its 25th anniversary. I wanted to go back to some of the older animations and see how they compared with more recent ones – mainly in terms of entertainment. Since I remembered El Dorado as being quite good, I…
Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go…?!?
So…recently Ninja Gaiden 4 came out; when I first saw the trailer and discovered that Ryu was not the protagonist I was a bit worried for the series, so I just had to play it to see if my premonitions were on point or not. I played through the fourth installment, clocking out at about…
What Flowers may Bloom
The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (Kaoru hana wa rin to saku) is a manga by Saka Mikami that started to be serialized back in 2021. Given that recently it received an anime adaptation, it just so happen to pass under my radar and I’m here to talk about it. It is, once again, a…
The 28th trilogy
Given that it is time for Halloween, this month’s movie column as such is thematically dedicated to horror, but with a bit of a spin. The trilogy of 28 (28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and 28 Years Later) could be considered in fact a horror saga, but with a different pacing than what one…
Re-makes, re-boots and re-brands
It seems that in recent years the cinematographic world – thinking especially of the Hollywoodian gears – is suffering more and more from a lack of originality. More than half of the new movies are either sequels, prequels, reboots, reenvisionings or whatever other brand that the cashgrabing market uses to pray on the nostalgia factor…
Snatch a Toro by the diamond
Snatch is a 2000 crime/dark-humour comedy directed by Guy Ritchie; in Ritchie’s fashion it has an all-star cast of actors, names such as Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro, Jason Statham, Dennis Farina and Vinnie Jones (who by the way had a pretty good year and start to his career). His first movie was Lock and…