The Partner In Crime (henceforth to be known as The PIC, as I now find the acronymed moniker of “OH” [Other Half] to be insulting to both of our whole selves) has this desperate habit of making me watch horrific… Read More ›
Review
[FILM] John Wick
“John Wick doesn’t need to speak to you when all he wants to do is shoot everyone in the face.” John Wick, a former mob hitman, is forced out of retirement in order to track down, and brutally murder, the… Read More ›
[GAME] 221 Hours of Dragon Age: Obsession
The gamers among my followers will already be aware of the fact that I’m a complete sucker for a good story. There’s something wonderful about being able to totally immerse yourself in a game that sucks you in, makes you… Read More ›
[FILM] Fifty Shades of Grey
The date is February 14th, the year 2015. All across the land bored housewives and desperate singletons experience an intense frothing of the private parts as they flock to cinemas to watch a modern masterpiece that is heralded as being… Read More ›
[FILM] A Million Ways To Die In The West
“I know this is going to sound a little harsh, but I find MacFarlane funnier when I can’t see him.” Albert Stark (Seth MacFarlane) is a pretty useless sheep farmer who lives in Arizona circa 1882. He despises the frontier and… Read More ›
[FILM] Cuban Fury
“The story was, as you might guess, very predictable, but I don’t hold that against it.” As a child, Bruce Garrett (Nick Frost) was a salsa dancing champion. He had feet of flames; Le Passion his constant companion. That is… Read More ›
[FILM] Pompeii
Wellity, I’ve collected a few choice picks from the list of May’s DVD releases. They included Her, Veronica Mars, That Awkward Moment and Pompeii. Last eve was the turn of Paul Anderson’s attempt at a blockbusting epic, so I put on… Read More ›
[TV] The Season Roundup – HIT or MISS?
I had plenty to do during my downtime on Risa. Drink, sunbathe, pose for a sculptor as he designed a giant statue of me to be erected on my home planet in recognition for my many great deeds, strut around… Read More ›
[FILM] Monsters University Vs Despicable Me 2
Both of these animated children’s films hit our screens at approximately the same time, did battle cartoon-style to win over our hearts and attempted to emerge victorious in the ratings wars. With Despicable Me 2 raking in a cool 100… Read More ›
[GAME] My Wolf Among Us Experience Episode 1 – Faith
More crazy funtimes came to me this Christmas (thank you, Steam sale) in the form of The Wolf Among Us. Another immersive title from Telltale Games, the studio that brought us The Walking Dead, with that same comic book, episodic… Read More ›
[FILM] Fast & Furious 6
I can’t believe there’s been six of these. But whatever, who cares, because MORE CAR PORN! Woohoo! “It’s bad in a way that is almost similar to how I felt about Pacific Rim; meaning that it’s cool and it’s fun and… Read More ›
[FILM] Much Ado About Nothing
Happy New Year everyone! I’m still in recovery from the most booziest time of the year, but am well and truly back with the first of many reviews I cobbled together over Christmas. There’ll be more details of my shenanigans… Read More ›
[MUSIC] My Most Favourite Christmas Songs
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Or so I’m told, but it’s hard to disagree when I’ve been listening to such joyful Christmas tunage. Don’t get me wrong, some seasonal music is just awful, overplayed rubbish, and after… Read More ›
[FILM] Drinking Buddies
Drinking Buddies has been popping up all over my radar recently, with fellow film bloggers both reviewing and recommending it. And they do so for good reason as this was an unexpected treat. It struck quite a few chords with… Read More ›
[GAME] My Walking Dead Experience – 400 Days
With the next season almost upon us I began my Walking Dead preparations by playing through the 400 Days DLC; a special episode that will supposedly bridge the gap between season one and season two. In a change of pace… Read More ›
[TV] The Fall Roundup – HIT or MISS? (Revisited)
Back at the beginning of the Fall TV season I wrote a round-up of all of the shows, both new and returning, that I would be tuning in to (click for Part Uno and Part Deux of same). Well, Winter has finally come, and that… Read More ›
[FILM] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
It seems as though the world and his ma have been reviewing Catching Fire in a frenzy of superlatives and JLaw pics. I’m afraid I’ll be no different as today I did exactly what I claimed I would do in… Read More ›
[FILM] Threesome – R.I.P.D., Pacific Rim, After Earth
I had said that some of my October DVD Releases deserved a post of their own. I did, however, find that wasn’t the case for all of them and for once I ran short of words when it came to… Read More ›
[FILM] The Way Way Back
As mentioned last week in The Sunday Spew, in a bid to review all of the October DVD releases of films I’ve yet to see I’ve managed to get through three out of thirteen of them. I was planning on… Read More ›
[FILM] Byzantium
There was no doubt in my mind that I would eventually watch this film. For two reasons. The first being the massive Irish connections and the second being vampires. I like vampires. And I’m not talking the teen sparkly angst… Read More ›
[GAME] My Walking Dead Experience Episode 5 – No Time Left
Well, it’s Wednesday (or it was when I started!), and even though it was nearly a month in the creation, I’ve finally managed to pin down my thoughts on all of the feels experienced during this last installment of my… Read More ›
[TV] The Fall Roundup – HIT or MISS? (Part Deux)
It turns out that my list is longer than I thought. Today I add The Tomorrow People, Once Upon A Time In Wonderland and The Walking Dead to my Fall TV Roundup List of Possible Watchables, following on from Agents… Read More ›
[FILM] V Does DVD Releases (September)
Last weekend saw me attempt to plow through the September DVD releases of movies I didn’t have the chance to see when they were in theaters. World War Z was first on my list. I munched through an entire box… Read More ›
[TV] The Fall Roundup – HIT or MISS?
It’s that wonderful time of year again when the old reliables return to our screens and the new potential hits are rolled out for us to make or break. Dexter and Breaking Bad have ended, one with a neutered whimper… Read More ›
[GAME] My Walking Dead Experience Episode 4 – Around Every Corner
It’s Wednesday! And that means another installment of my Walking Dead game experience. This week we look at what happened in Episode 4. If you haven’t yet read my previous recap installments of Episodes 1, 2 and 3 you can… Read More ›
[FILM] Riddick
I was really looking forward to seeing Riddick, so much so that I purposely avoided everything written about it just in case it tainted my perception or ruined any elements of the movie for me. If I’m honest, now that I have… Read More ›
[GAME] My Walking Dead Experience Episode 3 – Long Road Ahead
It’s my favourite day of the week, Wednesday! It’s not really, I prefer Saturdays because I get to sleep in and it’s not really Wednesday because it is actually Friday and the editor is finally letting me upload the screenies but… Read More ›
GUINNESS.
There is nothing so quintessentially Irish as a pint of the black stuff. And it has to be said, credit where it is due, the marketing genius of Diageo has propelled the Guinness brand into every household with a television… Read More ›
[FILM] The World’s End
The third and final installment of The Cornetto Trilogy; The World’s End brings to a close the stories of quirky, unexpected and novel films that I have enjoyed for years. While not quite bettering Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz in my… Read More ›
[GAME] My Walking Dead Experience Episode 2 – Starved For Help
It’s The Walking Dead Wednesday, hooray! That’s what I’ve decided to call my weekly recaps of The Walking Dead game. Original, aren’t I? If you haven’t read the first installment and would like to, it can be found here: My… Read More ›
[FILM] Threesome – We’re The Millers, Now You See Me, Pain & Gain
We’ve a triple feature today. I’ve been a busy little movie muncher this week and managed to gobble up three relatively new releases to Ireland, but because I found that I actually had very little to say about them I’ve… Read More ›
[GAME] My Walking Dead Experience Episode 1 – A New Day
I know, I know, I’m so late to this party. But with a serious backlog list of games, movies, TV shows and books that I simply must get through (eventually), a social life and least importantly, a job to do, I’ve… Read More ›
[FILM] Kick-Ass 2
Back in 2010 Kick-Ass was one of the unexpected, break-out hits of the year for me. It was original, it caught me by surprise and the violence was dark. It caused all sorts of controversy. A winning recipe for a… Read More ›
[TV] Breaking Bad – Back With A Bang
We’ve been waiting a long time for this. The epic conclusion to the epic saga of Walter White and his meth empire. Unfortunately I’m not Stateside, so I had to wait a little longer than my American counterparts, but thankfully… Read More ›
[FILM] The Conjuring
I will begin this review by stating that I am no Horror Movie Maven. I’m easily frightened and I will jump and squeal like a scalded cat should someone jump out at me from behind a door. Even if I… Read More ›
[TV] ARROW To The Heart (Not The Knee)
I’ve just completed my second shot at Arrow. The first try didn’t go so well. I got about five episodes in before I stopped and pretty much forgot about it. Why? I’m not entirely sure. I had just finished a… Read More ›
My Top Tear-Jerking Moments In Entertainment
Picture the scene: You’re engrossed in something of high creative quality. The writers/director/actors/composer (or a combination of all) are ruthlessly tugging on your heart strings, manipulating you into feeling whatever it is they need you to feel. The lump forms… Read More ›
My Comic-Con Recap of Favourite Moments Part I
This time last year I vowed I would get to Comic-Con. Again this year I could not make the journey over the Atlantic to San Diego to visit the Holy Grail of all that is Nerddom. I will some day, I… Read More ›
[TV] Netflix Offerings – Hemlock Grove vs Orange is the New Black
When I first found out that Netflix was doing its very own original series I was more than a little curious, and more than a little impressed. I thought to myself that if House of Cards proved to be a… Read More ›
[GAME] Why Finishing Mass Effect Is Like Finishing A Relationship
So I finished my very first play-through of the Mass Effect trilogy (PC, natch!) a month ago, and it has taken me this long to get over it. I managed to avoid a lot of information and spoilers since release,… Read More ›
The Verbal Spew Review 