Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
A place to put anything and everything I find entertaining. From movies to video games, and quite a few things in-between.
Entertainment sub categories : Harry Potter, Movie reviews and Video Games
New Xbox 360 – Just For Games?
Not entirely sure how this happened but I was recently invited to be an Xbox 360 ambassador. What does this mean? Well I have been asked to write a couple of blog posts and post some tweets about Xbox.
The reason for becoming an ambassador is to promote the new Xbox 360 dashboard functionality that turns your Xbox from a pure games console, into a full blown media hub.
New DashboardWhen you first load the new dashboard the first thing you ...
Star Wars: Clone Wars, Series 3 DVD Review
Recently I received an invite to go and see a preview of Season 3 of Star Wars: Clone Wars at the Warner Brothers HQ in London.
Anyone who knows me, knows I am a long time Star Wars fan, including the prequels, and the 3D tv series - so it would be an understatement to say I was looking forward to it (yes, I'm a geek).
In fact talking of the tv series Jo, my wife, got me series one and two ...
Paul and The Big Lebowski
I recently got sent some more iTunes movies to review. I like getting free stuff and, as you can tell from the post titles, these were good'uns
PaulPaul is the latest film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and the only one to feature a potty mouthed alien.
Generally I watch the iTunes movies on my iPhone however since Jo, my better half, wanted to see Paul I decided to hook ...
It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Movie Review
It's been a while since I have written a movie review here on Binary Moon, I'm hoping I can start doing them more often as I rather enjoy the process.
My latest review is for a film called It's Kind of a Funny Story, which I watched on iTunes. It's Kind of a Funny Story is a slightly unusual film. A coming of age story ...
Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming
I posted briefly about this years ago - and it seems it's finally happening. And by 'seems' I mean 'is due for release in 10 days!'.
George RR Martins Game of Thrones series is probably my favorite book series ever. The stories are described as fantasy for people who don't do fantasy, and I couldn't agree more. When you read the books the stories are played perfectly straight - there is no ridiculousness everyone behaves as you would imagine, but not ...
The Green Zone
Let's get this out of the way quickly. Yes this is Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass, but it's not the Bourne Identity. Not close.
One similarity the two films share is the shaky cam stylings. It's everywhere, even more so than the Bourne films. Thankfully this doesn't bother me at all but I know a couple of people who have issues with motion sickness and I'm pretty sure this would have triggered it rather quickly.
From a factual point of view the ...
The Wolfman
The Wolfman is a remake of a classic horror movie. Re-imagining the story and bringing the special effects bang up to date.
On paper the cast sounds great. Anthony Hopkins rarely disappoints, Benicio Del Toro already looks wolf like, and Hugo Weaving is just plain awesome. However the decision to make Benicio the son of an Englishman, even one who has lived in America, is just strange. His accent never quite seems to go away and I ...
9
As post apocalyptic movies go, things don't get much more apocalyptic than they do in the movie 9. In a post war time, when the only things left are some golems made by an old man, and a bunch of distinctly WWII influenced robots things can't get much more bleak.
Despite this 9 has a sense of heart and a distinctly more grown up story than your average animated adventure. Likewise some of the 'enemy' machines are genuinely scary with ...
Rocket Boards is a super fast 3D rocket boarding action. My first "commercial" (shareware) product. Didn't do amazingly well but was a good learning experience
Bubble Bomb is a polished update of a game originally built by Warren Marshal (who works at Epic games - developers of Unreal and Gears of War)
My own update of Bubble Bomb, Bubble Blitz was almost a total rewrite adding loads of new features and a shiny new look.
Seths Puzzle Boxes is a puzzle game with a surprisingly enjoyable story line, unfortunately it's quite short so won't take long to complete, but while it lasts is great fun.