Real Vinyl History: The New York Dolls

Who was that band at the start of the first episode of Vinyl? In reality, the band had an alibi. The New York Dolls didnt always get away with things so easily. Vinylseason 1 is set in New York City in 1973. Rock was getting bloated and rollers thought it was getting a little pretentious. Genesis brought art and elaborate staging. Pink Floyd was teaching pigs to fly. Yes was electrifying chamber music....

February 17, 2016 · 4 min · 780 words · Devin Rice

Street Fighter 5 Review

It’s a new chapter for the revolutionary fighting game franchise. Want a piece of the action? Great, because a piece is all you’re getting. I bought into it and got the game upon release. All that hype blinded me to the skeletal product Id eventually have my hands on. Every wrestler literally played the same in terms of moves and stats. There were no special moves. There was no title or one-player mode....

February 17, 2016 · 4 min · 788 words · Roy Taylor

The Most Amazing Fighting Game Combos

From the weirdest to the most effective, these are the greatest combos in fighting game history! We might as well call chess the monochrome game. An expertStreet Fighterplayer is the closest we have to a combat cyborg. And this cyborg systems most powerful technique is the combo. The combo is computerized combat artwork, both form and function crafted to the most efficient beatdown. Which is why were marvelling at the the dinosaurs and dodos of this most amazing of combat strategies....

February 17, 2016 · 3 min · 453 words · Elizabeth Clark

Better Call Saul Season 2 Premiere Review: Switch

Better Call Saul season 2 is here, and Slippin' Jimmy is back to his old ways. Read our review for “Switch” here! This Better Call Saul review contains spoilers. Better Call Saul Season 2, Episode 1 Spinoff shows are tricky business. Often studios mistakenly believe that association can manufacture quality. Telling good stories can be the secondary focus in making these things if good intentions are missing. Ad content continues below...

February 16, 2016 · 1 min · 176 words · Ellen Rodgers

Jeremy Irons Interview: Race and Alfred in Batman v Superman

Im curious what you knew about him… Ad content continues below Jeremy Irons:I knew nothing. Until I talked to a friend of mine. He said, Oh, yes. He only retired from the Olympic Committee in the 90s. And he was not much liked. He was, I think, quite aggressive and self-opinionated. Well, that was later in life. We werent playing that period. I read about where he came from and what he did....

February 16, 2016 · 5 min · 1055 words · John Blair

Lucifer: Manly Whatnots Review

Lucifer takes one step forward and two steps back with its newest outing. But one clunky plot contrivance later (how will Chloe and Lucifer be thrown together this week? ), and said hopes were quickly dashed.Luciferdoesnt seem too concerned about taking the airwaves by storm. And yet here we are, and Beelzebubs your uncle, as it were. As Ive written before about this show, the crime of the week is beside the point....

February 16, 2016 · 2 min · 377 words · Cameron Willis

Deadpool, and the box office of R-rated comic book films

Deadpool’s opening weekend proves that people will turn out R-rated comic book movies. However, there have actually been loads. Heres our brief history of R-rated comic book movies, then, and how well they all did… Here in the UK it was cut down to make for an AA (14 and up) rating. So, successful R-rated comic book adaptations are hardly a new thing. The R-rated comic book movie continued to find success in the 1990s....

February 15, 2016 · 3 min · 475 words · Karen Hebert

Deadpool: From Screenplay to Screen

It yook years for the Deadpool movie to get off the ground. We look at how the Deadpool movie changed from the original script. This article is full ofDeadpoolspoilers and probably wont make any sense unless youve already seen the movie. Deadpoolspent the weekend breaking just about every box office record that an R-rated movie can break. You have to call this a success. It took years of prodding to get Fox to greenlightDeadpoolwhen it seemed like a hopeless cause....

February 15, 2016 · 6 min · 1128 words · George Miller

Lethal Weapon 2: looking back at an excellent sequel

Is Lethal Weapon 2 the best of the series? There’s certainly an argument… It begins with a dramatic, tension-filled drumroll before segueing into a cartoonish banjo-twang and a Loony Tunes-inspired fanfare. ), and Richard Donners direction feels more assured and dynamic. These are filmmakers showing an audience what they can do rather than giving them what they think they want. Well, up to a point, anyway… One aspect that epitomises this approach best is the handling of Martin Riggs himself....

February 15, 2016 · 2 min · 279 words · Tracy Fisher

The Walking Dead: No Way Out Review

ThisWalking Deadreview contains spoilers. Things havent really looked up since then. Ad content continues below Buy all your Walking Dead boxsets, comics, and merch here! The scenes filmed outsideand at night!always feel claustrophobic and genuinely scary. It was deliciously gruesome. So it was best to let the kid and his family exit stage om nom nom. And its pretty brilliant that Carol, as she is known to do, indirectly gets the kid killed....

February 15, 2016 · 3 min · 446 words · Miguel Romero

The Witch Review

The Witch is a chilling horror movie experience, conjuring colonial demons, superstitions, and other wicked thoughts. There is a witch in the woods. Instead, it is a unique horror film where the menace is both internal and external. Ralph Ineson is also superb as a pious man with too much unconfessed narcissism to admit his piling hypocrisies. further reading: The Witch Has One of Horrors Greatest Endings Rating: 5 out of 5

February 15, 2016 · 1 min · 72 words · Thomas Woods

11/22/63: Spoiler Free Review

Can a high school English teacher change history and find love in the past? Stephen King tries to save JFK from 11/22/63. Thats the basic premise of Hulus a miniseries on the best-selling 2011 Stephen King novel11/22/63. Templeton has been taking mini-vacations. He doesnt light off for a quick weekend of fishing. He prefers spending his time off somewhere in a more innocent age, the age of Camelot. He confides in his restaurant regular about this time portal hes got hidden in the closet behind the kitchen....

February 14, 2016 · 2 min · 390 words · Frederick Porter MD

Vinyl Season 1 Spoiler Free Review

HBO’s Vinyl season 1 premieres tonight. We have a completely spoiler free review of the first couple of episodes. HBO will air the premiere ofVinylthis Sunday. A lot of the words to this tune will be written by author Rich Cohen. The first episode ofVinylis a full length Martin Scorsese movie, a few minutes longer thanMean StreetsorKing of Comedy. It sets the scene and digs into the history of the characters and the world of rock n roll....

February 14, 2016 · 2 min · 337 words · Sheila Keller