This set of home release reviews comes a little later than expected, since I had originally planned to have this up over the Bank Holiday Weekend. But no matter, here they are! Coming towards the end of the cinematic releases from 2012 that recently released on Blu Ray, there is nonetheless some quality to be found in them. And indeed one of which, just might sneak…

Generally will be spoiler-free; though don't cry if I mention something that was already shown in the trailers. ;)

It is one of the dates in 2013 that we have all been waiting for, the opening to Marvel's Phase Two. And Tony Stark was given the first act, with the film I was quite honestly, a little…

Especially within the past few years, Sci Fi movies have taken up a sizeable chunk of profits at the box office. From Summer blockbusters to small Indie films, we seem to never be able to get enough of them. So on paper, this movie seemed to have everything in place to assure its success, and yet now after seeing it for myself... I'm not so sure it will. But let me not be…

I'm back with some more new(ish) home releases to cast my judgement upon, and a very odd choice of films too. It's funny what browsing through the bottom shelf of the video store can bring up, and in this case it led to me finding two films I had been keeping an eye out for over the past few weeks now. And yes, video stores…

We are only in April, and yet this was easily one of the most anticipated games of 2013. Countless reviews have been written praising 2K's latest game, and even more articles have discussed the ending and mechanics throughout the story. It almost seems silly for me to add another review to the pile but hey, nothing beats a good honest opinion. I'll just give my thoughts and…

And now for today, something a little bit different, but also something that many here will no doubt be very interested in hearing about.  C. Robert Cargill is much beloved here on Spill, and this is his first venture into writing and publishing a novel. The initial news sounded very good, so now I'll try and summarise why this…

A rather odd pairing of movies for reviewing purposes this week, but so is the weekly manner of searching through the video store shelves for interesting things to check out. And 2012 continues to offer some great films for me, which should translate into some equally interesting discussions. No need to wait around, let's go straight in and have a…

My second movie review of the weekend, and I've noticed that in the past week, Side Effects has been getting some pretty good word of mouth and advertising. Might bode well for awards season once that rolls around again, and with what this movie has to offer, I certainly hope it retains the attention it has…

I think it is fair to say that Disney's live action movies of late have been... underperformers to say the least. Most have been reasonably good, but never good enough, or what you wanted to see from such huge budgets. Just a lot of glitter, but not very much in the way of soul. But this movie may have finally broken the trend, and in a big way too. Which from a movie…

It feels so odd that despite me seeing many films last year, that there's still a huge batch of great titles from 2012 I have yet to check out. Some consisting of movies I missed out on seeing, others that just never got screened…

Quite a nice set of movie rentals there, isn’t it? This was specifically the "movies I missed out on seeing last year, but really wanted to" set, and seeing as they all released within the space of a week of each other, made the perfect reason to have a movie marathon. Were they good? Hell yes, but how good were they? That is the question I'll try to answer here for you…

You know those evenings when only one film is on in the theatre for you to see at the time you arrive? And even though the warning sirens are screaming in your head you go see it nonetheless? That happened to me last night, after I had just finished seeing "Wreck it Ralph". And like a lamb limping into the slaughterhouse I stumbled into my seat to watch the newest Die Hard…

The first theatrical review of 2013, and it is a movie that released last year in the U.S.? Yep, lame Disney distribution means I went to check this out in the cinema tonight for what is, the film we all expected Pixar to make rather than "Brave". It's been a long wait and I wasn't fully able to side-step all the spoilers and hype for…

And now, on to my final SNES review, at least for a while until I pick up some new games. And this I was the most apprehensive about, because despite being a huge Mario fan on the SNES....... I never played this game on the console. It wasn't until we had a Game Boy Advance that I played a bit of it and to be honest here, I struggled with it. When I…

Ahh, Mario All Stars... just saying the title brings back so many memories since this was the first Mario game(s) I played. In fact, it was part of the Super Nintendo bundle my brother purchased many moons ago and replaced our then-dying Atari 2600. So you can imagine my delight when I got the new SNES recently and discovered that the old…

Oh man, I was not expecting today's episode to turn out this way, and I'm not entirely sure if I can manage to say very much about it. And sadly it is for the wrong reasons, but I will struggle through and attempt to get some thoughts onto the digital paper. Whether they are incorrect is neither here nor there, since this is one of the first episodes I... honestly don't care about. Almost every…

My first new videogame to play for 2013 and wow, did this cause a few tangled undergarments among the masses on the Interweb. Even before the demo had been released, people were complaining that it was the end of the series as we knew it, and scorned Ninja Theory for even thinking about making a new version of the classic PS2 series. But upon first impressions, we…

Well, if you've been following this series you will have seen at last some of the ridiculous freaking out over this episode. "What's that? John de Lancie is coming back for another episode???" And most of this I kept away from, in fact I went in with no idea what this episode would be about. And sadly it seems all…

Last week I finally got round to buying something I had wanted for a very long time. That's right, I got a Super Nintendo! And although it wasn't the very first gaming system I played, it remains one of my very favourites. Getting the chance to play some classic SNES titles on it has led me to writing a review... consider it a modern…

Finally! It is time for me to look back at the past year's releases and pick out those that stood out the most, and were my picks for 2012. It turned out to be a far more interesting year for movies than I'm expecting anyone would have previously assumed, with many of Hollywood's smaller releases turning out to be the stand out choices. We also saw some fine…