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Lost as 1987 LucasArts Point and Click adventure

Beautiful Lost images from Penney Design.
I want to play this game. Now. NOW dammit!

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8-Bit Dr Horrible – sheer genius

I love love love Dr Horrible’s Sing-along Blog with a passion and now this brilliant imagining as a Nintendo game is making me ache for a game that never was.
This is one of the reasons the Web is such an amazing force in our lives. Back in the day, this never would have existed or [...]

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles original theatrical movie trailer

So many years ago …
I still remember when Raphael got nearly beaten to death. Oh, sorry, was that a spoiler?

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Alice in Wonderland trailer

I don’t have any quarrel with the film but the other day I was in a bookshop and saw that they had adapted a BOOK from the SCRIPT of this film.
Film to book adaptations — no worries.
Film to book adaptations when the original book is brilliant and/or a classic?
I was so angry I kind of [...]

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Erin Hunting Astro Boy

I love Astro Boy. Built as a replacement for a scientist’s dead son, he was abandoned when the scientist realised he could not ever truly replace his son. Astro was then rescued by a kindly researcher who made him into the hero we know today.
Go Astro!

Where the Wild Things are movie trailer

I read some early review which did not say nice things and so I stopped reading reviews about it. Holding up at 71% right now on Rotten Tomatoes though, so I’m hoping I perhaps read a bad review … rather than an accurate review of a bad movie. I’ve been waiting so long to see [...]

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Prince of Persia movie trailer

Game to movie adaptation that is guaranteed to suck. Watch the trailer and cringe.

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