A quartet of teenage girls decide to freak themselves out by watching an online video about summoning the urban legend known as Slender M...

Four essential movies shaped my early Dungeons & Dragons games: namely Jason & The Argonauts from 1963; Sinbad And The Eye of The Tiger (...

Photo by cottonbro studio It's official. I have Rachel's germs. My poor wife has heroically struggled through a lengthy spell of serious lur...

"The Western genre has produced some of the most original and memorable villains in the history of cinema, so in this video I rank my Top 20...

Main cover art by Francesco Mattina Ace swords-and-sorcery scribe Torunn Grønbekk returns to the pages of Red Sonja for the Red Sonja Solst...

DC Studios’ Clayface is a horror thriller from director James Watkins, starring Tom Rhys Harries in the title role of the cult favourite vi...

Good grief, The Midnight Man is one frustrating film. It stars two stalwarts of the horror movie scene (Lin Shaye and Robert Englund), is...

My most unexpected Christmas present in 2020 a DVD ( and VHS tape ) of Terminus , an obscure Karen Allen film I'd been hunting for. Knowing ...

To mark 20 years of the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler, experience a one-night-only movie-length screening, with previously deleted scenes rest...

I reviewed the original 1992 Candyman yesterday just to remind me of the titular character's backstory, little realising that the 2021  Cand...

Mature student Helen Lyle ( Michael Madsen's sister Virginia doing a good Gillian Anderson impression ) is investigating urban legends for a...

Stranded after a concert scam, an all-girl heavy metal band and their vampire manager, stumble into a town ruled by a warlock and crawling w...

Honestly, I don't know where this week has gone. Have I been so under a cloud and distracted that it has slipped by me? I know we had game...

Photo by Ceyda Çiftci In this video, geek architect Dami Lee deconstructs the Colosseum of Ancient Rome, explaining how it operated as a pr...

And so Peter Jackson's epically-padded adaptation of a 300-page children's book into three two-and-a-half hour films comes to end with a ...

"...and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-h...

A quick update from Italian game publishers Two Little Mice this week: its video game/anime-inspired fantasy roleplaying game  Twilight Swo...

One of the main things to take away from The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug is that it is infinitely better than its predecessor ( An U...

PREVIOUSLY ON OUTGUNNED ADVENTURES : Trapped on a dinosaur-infested desert island in the Hollow Earth ( possibly ), our heroes engage a squa...

Although I now class Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings as one of my favourite movies, I wasn't overly impressed when I first saw The Fell...

The legend begins at Camp Crystal Lake. Crystal Lake , starring Linda Cardellini, premieres on Sky ( Peacock in the States) this October...

The witch Azira (Beno Cardoso) is ravished by the Devil's Messenger, the demon Belial (Harrison Muller), who proclaims that their progeny wi...

Two bits of great news on the reading front this week: I've finally resumed Draugr after too long a break and my copy of the Deathstalker no...

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Just a little head's up for the half-a-dozen or so punters that actually read my drivel here ( rather th...

With this morning's screening of Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires , I have now watched every episode of the classic Batman serial from '60s...

Another fantastic list from Luminism that speaks to the gamer in me. For years, in my 20s, I was trying to mentally codify the rules of the...

If you think you know her story, you’re dead wrong. Carrie , a new series from Mike Flanagan, based on Stephen King’s iconic debut novel arr...

So, Supergirl . It's not as bad as you've probably heard, but it isn't that great either. Kara Zor-El ( House of The Dragon 's Milly Alcock)...

Well-known and respected RPG YouTuber Seth Skorkowsky has reviewed OUTGUNNED Adventure , from Two Little Mice , the pulp-emulating system t...

Visiting an open studio at Dungeness, out front was their 'grave yard' of old tools Back in 2018, Rachel and I celebrated our wedding an...

A Steinbeck classic gets a fresh interpretation. East of Eden will explore the multigenerational saga of the Trask family, focusing new att...

Warriors of Heaven And Earth ( or Tian Di Ying Xiong ) is an Eighth Century Chinese adventure story with traces of The Seven Samurai , Zulu...

War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing strugg...

Back at the height of the cinematic swords-and-sorcery boom of the 1980's, a half-dozen novels were published featuring the She-Devil With A...

Despite erroneous rumours The Uprising  is not an "origin" story for Robin Hood. The star himself, Andrew Garfield, clearly states in the fe...

Twentysomething Bear (Michael Johnston) has a serious crush on his friend and co-worker, Nikki (Inde Navarrette), but is too awkward and shy...

After a debt-collector finds a portal to hell in a washing machine at his local laundromat, he’s propositioned into feeding hell sinners to...

There is something quite delicious about watching a crappy old swords and sorcery B-movie on VHS cassette, that certain - almost illicit -...

Cohen the Barbarian was angry. Angry that he never died in battle, angry that the world had forgotten him, and angry that his knees were sta...

Last weekend was this year's FrightFest horror film festival in London, which reminded me that Paul and I had attended the event back in ...

Dracula is dead, but his cult lives on in late 19th Century Transylvania. Young Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur) is heading to the Lady's Academy a...

Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighter s Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Ch...

My newly arrived dice pool for Pete's OUTGUNNED Adventures campaign Any excuse to buy more dice, right? A contributing factor to my analysi...

Day The Earth Froze is an American redubbing ( quite well done ) and re-editing ( not so subtle ) of Finnish/Russian fairytale movie cal...

Our favourite living history display of the day On Monday, Rachel, Alice and I attended Military Odyssey  at the Kent County Showground, as ...

How have I gone this long without seeing this wonderful little film? Especially as Rachel bought me the Blu-Ray for Christmas several yea...