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This week my wife and I showed our teenage girls a selection of old movie trailers from the 80s and 90s, and amongst the stories of vampires, spies and computer-generated dystopias, the one they were intrigued by was a small, simple “what if”: what if you were trapped reliving the same day, over and over?…

So, my daughter’s birthday DnD campaign has come and gone, and a good time was had by all. Our band of intrepid cut-price adventurers braved the laboratory of Arrad the Mad, trying to stop him before he released a plague upon the kingdom. After being shrunk. the tiny heroines fought monsters, rival adventurers and at…

My eldest girl is about to have her birthday and has asked me to write a DnD campaign as a present for her and her friends (I raised ‘em right!). It’s been a few years since I’ve written a campaign, but I’ve dusted off my notes and bought the latest books, and we just spent…

I’ve been watching the Crow reboot get eviscerated by the critics, and as a result there’s a clamour over the genius of the original movie. But was it that good? Let’s take a look. The Crow, filmed in 1994 and adapted from a comic series by James O’Barr, is a moody gothic story of revenge,…

Now that my girls are in high school, they will inevitably have to read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. When I bounced this off them, they announced that they didn’t want anything to do with it because it was “too old and stuffy.” With that in mind, I dusted off a copy of 1996’s Romeo and…

As part of my ongoing quest to share the best and worst of old movies with my girls, this week we sat down and watched an absolute classic: 1984’s The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton. The girls were dismissive at first – something THAT old can’t be any good – but I was…

Given the cavalcade of box-office flops we’ve had over the last few years, I was scrolling through the list of movie disasters and came across a film that’s still notorious after almost 30 years. Waterworld was launched in ’95 to massive expectations, only to sink faster than the cities of the film’s setting. The story…

Alright, buckle up, people. I’ve reviewed a lot of bad movies over the last few years. Mac and Me. Johnny Mnemonic. Krull. They were just the warm up. There exists a movie so terrible that it’s name is still whispered in dread through the gilded halls of Hollywood. Cutthroat. Frikkin. Island. This 1995 pirate movie…

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a supernatural horror, and a strange little film The Bridge: Ritual has recently released on Netflix. It is worth a watch? Let’s find out! The film revolves around a group of game designers trying to create an Augmented Reality horror game to sell to the big developers. For…

I’ve been working on a new story involving a female smuggler from the Appalachians of the USA, as I wanted a protagonist who was capable and self-sufficient. It helps that I have two dear friends who have family history from this cultural group, and they’ve shaped a lot of my views away from the unfunny…