Smashbomb

"Yes – of all his albums this is the one that got me. I admire him to the nth degree, no matter what, but that record just captured me wholeheartedly when it was released, and I must have listened to it at least 2000 times. My dad was living in England at the time and it was really here that I fell into the chasm of that journey. I've so many memories of my dad taking me to these really dodgy carnivals that they would have in the suburbs, with guys with tattoos operating these iffy lifts, and I would be listening to 'Raspberry Beret' or 'Around the World in a Day' on my Walkman. I'm a lucky guy; that was a fun period."

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Resident Evil Code: Veronica

7.6 (34 Ratings) Rate It

Video Game

The Terror is Relentless. It stalks its prey with cunning. Its reflexes...lightning fast...its...

Survival Horror Zombies

The Lay of the Land

Richard Ford

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

It is fall, 2000 and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls...

Plan B

5.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

YouTube Channel

Plan B is a Puerto Rican Reggaeton duo, consisting of Chencho and Maldy, who are also cousins. At an...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

6.5 (69 Ratings) Rate It

Movie

It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the...

David McK (3649 KP) rated Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023) in Movies

Apr 10, 2023 (Updated Sep 10, 2023)

Feature-length movie set in the D&D universe, this is much better than the 2000 travesty, with Chris Pine this time taking the lead, alongside Michelle Ridriguez and Hugh Grant and is set in the 'Forgotten Realms' campaign setting, with Baldurs Gate and Neverwinter both getting name-dropped.

(I must admit that, as large parts of it were filmed in my home of Northern Ireland, I did spend quite a bit of time playing 'spot the location').

It also has a refreshing low-stakes feel about it (there's no real 'end of the world' disaster to be averted), and I did also feel that it had elements of Monty Python around it (particularly in the talking to the dead graveyard bit)

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Ágætis byrjun by Sigur Ros

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Album

Ágætis byrjun became Sigur Rós's breakthrough album, both commercially and critically. It...

David McK (3649 KP) rated Transformers Rise of the Beasts (2023) in Movies

Dec 1, 2024

I heard this is something like the 7th entry in the main 'Transformers' non-cartoon movie series.

7.

I still remember the first.

This is also a prequel, of sorts, set during the 1990s instead of the more contemporary setting of the earlier (mid 2000) movies, with a new cast of human characters alongside the Autobots and - here - the Terracons and the Maximals.

For some reason, however, I found it not to be as engaging as those earlier (maximum Bayhem!) entries, even though it is clearer on just what is happening - maybe it's the fusion of sound and vision that's missing?

Anyway, it's not bad but I still prefer the first two entries in particular (before it all went massively downhill).