Anime and Gaming

  • Fast X – Review

    “FAST X” Fast X is the tenth movie in the Fast and Furious franchise and is directed by Louis Leterrier, whose previous titles include Clash of the Titans. Fast X’s announcement gave me a real feeling of ‘Wait, they’re still making these movies?’, though I get some of the appeal behind it, I’ve been checked…

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  • Redfall – Game Review

    Redfall (available for XBox Series X and S, and PC. Xbox Series X version used for this review) Redfall is a first-person co-op shooter developed by Arkane, developers of games like Prey, Dishonoured, and Death Loop. This game was specifically developed by the Austin, Texas division responsible for Prey. Redfall is a project that has…

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  • Dead Island 2 – Game Review

    Dead Island 2 Back in the seventh console generation (PS3, Xbox 360 & Nintendo Wii), there were three major trends in gaming: FPS’s, blood and gore, and zombies. In that generation we had an overabundance of zombie games, from sequels in series that are known for the monsters like Resident Evil 5 & 6, original…

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  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – Review

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 is the latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is now the final MCU film to be written and directed by James Gunn before he goes to Warner Brothers to manage their reboot of the DC Cinematic Universe. Guardians 3 not only…

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  • Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – Game Review

    Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – PS5 review Jedi Survivor is the sequel to the 2019 action adventure game Jedi Fallen Order. The game picks up 5 years after the original game as features the same style of play but with all new planets to explore. I played on the PS5 version of the game so…

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  • Polite Society – Review

    “POLITE SOCIETY” Polite Society is a British kung-fu film directed by Nida Manzoor. It featured a somewhat heavy marketing cycle aided by the fact that it came out in a weekend with virtually no competition. Manzoor herself said that she was inspired by Jackie Chan films and Edgar Wright- and those two influences are very…

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  • Professionally Unprofessional podcast: Mario Movie review

    We give our late thoughts on the Mario movie and how it stands up to other Video Game adaptations Calvin Director of Axia ASD Ltd. Self-proclaimed Nerd Consultant and Head of Axia’s Film Society. Share This Post:

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  • Evil Dead Rise – Review

    “EVIL DEAD RISE” Evil Dead Rise is the latest entry in the Evil Dead series written and directed by Lee Cronin. The best way to describe Lee Cronin is that he is the kind of director who makes films that critics will like but audiences won’t. The prime example is his previous film, Hole in…

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  • Have A Nice Death – Game Review

    Have A Nice Death (available on Nintendo Switch and PC) (Switch version used for review) Over the last few years, it feels like we’ve gotten an abundance of rogue-likes. From recent heavy hitters like Hades and Inscription to more niche like Loop Hero or Crypt of the Necrodancer, even AAA companies have gotten into it…

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  • Resident Evil 4 (2023) – Game Review

    Resident Evil 4 (2023) (available for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S, and PC- Steamdeck compatibility included. PlayStation 5 version used for this review) Resident Evil 4 Remake rounds out the trilogy of the remakes of the classic Resident Evil games, though ever since the announcement it’s been wondered what this version…

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  • Tchia – Game Review

    Tchia (available for PlayStation 4 & 5, and PC. PlayStation 5 version used for this review) Tchia has been a game showing up in PlayStation showcases for quite some time, it has been shown off with various trailers and developer diaries. The team at PlayStation has teamed up with indie studio Awaceb to get this…

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  • Octopath Traveler 2 – Game Review

    Octopath Traveler 2 (available for PlayStation 4 & 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC with SteamDeck compatibility. Nintendo Switch version used for this review) Octopath Traveler 2 is the latest Square Enix game from Team Asano, who has been knocking it out of the park recently. They had excellent entries with games like Triangle Strategy and…

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  • Bayonetta Origins – Game Review

    Bayonetta Origins (available on Nintendo Switch only) Bayonetta Origins is a brand new spin-off developed by Platinum Games with the subtitle ‘Cereza and the Lost Demon’. It attempts to tell a short origin story for Bayonetta when she was a child, tying back in briefly to some of the events of other Bayonetta games. We…

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  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie – Review

    “THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE” The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been in very long production, Illumination Pictures got the job to do the movie following Nintendo’s partnership with Universal, which also resulted in the Nintendo World theme parks which have shown up in various Universal World parks. Nintendo and Illumination have finally got the…

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  • John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) – Review

    “JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4” John Wick: Chapter 4 sees director Chad Stahelski and star Keanu Reeves return to conclude the John Wick franchise with one final movie. Chapter 4 marks the longest gap between John Wick movies, probably due to the pandemic providing production difficulties. If we had to wait through the worst part of…

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  • Like A Dragon: Ishin – Game Review

    Like A Dragon: Ishin (available for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and PC) (PlayStation 5 version used for review) Admittedly I only really got into the Yakuza series a couple of years ago. Like most I started with Yakuza 0 after seeing the overwhelming amount of praise it got,…

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  • Shazam: Fury of the Gods – Review

    “SHAZAM: FURY OF THE GODS” Shazam: Fury of the Gods is the sequel to the previously successful Shazam movie, and also holds the title of being the second to last entry in the current incarnation of the DC extended universe; the series will be rebooted during the upcoming Flash movie, which has its own controversy.…

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  • Scream VI – Review

    “Scream 6 (2023)” Scream 6 is now the sixth movie in the franchise, but for the purposes of this film, it’s mainly a follow-up to the fifth movie that came out last year. I didn’t review the previous Scream film too favourably, I thought that it was a bit too full of itself and I…

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