December 2011
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
I’ve never been overly fond of the Mission Impossible series of films. I still haven’t seen the first, the second was complete crap, the third was passable entertainment, so you may want to take what I have to say about MI4 with a pinch of salt if you’re a fan of the series.
After a short introduction sequence in Budapest, with an agent being assassinated after a daring escape,...
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
When it came to the first Sherlock Holmes film that came out a couple of years ago I enjoyed it a surprising amount. I expected complete rubbish but it turned out to be a fun romp with some nice nods towards the Sherlock Holmes stories without being bound by them, which, for my money, is the best way to handle an adaptation, unless you’re going to stick rigidly to the source material but...
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My Top Games of 2011
What makes a great game, you will probably get every different answer possible from every different gamer and judging from my list of games I’d give half of them myself. I guess this will go in no particular order but I’ll start with my favourite because it’s the first that springs to mind.
Portal 2 (PS3)
Portal 2 had a lot to live up to, the first Portal was just a little...
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Best TV of 2011
I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I thought it’s the time of year to reflect on the best of the year. So I’m going with some Best of posts if I can be bothered to keep writing them. And after the best TV episode of the year last night I thought it was a good time to do TV. And this is going to be British shows, so despite loving shows like Fringe, Big Bang Theory, Glee,...