Monthly Archives: July 2024

Adapting Dune’s Characters to Film

Posted on July 31, 2024 by JC

There are three film adaptations of Frank Herbert’s Dune and while none of them come close to the brilliance of the novel, they all have at least something to recommend them. Perhaps Alejandro Jodorowsky’s never-to-be-filmed Dune would have come closer … Continue reading →

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Not with a bang but a wimper

Posted on July 23, 2024 by JC

I will state at the outset and without a hint of irony, that /pol/ on 4chan is far more reliable for news than any mainstream news website. In stating that, I still don’t recommend getting your daily news there as … Continue reading →

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Going Deeper with BioShock

Posted on July 16, 2024 by JC

BioShock was released in August 2007 on PC, Xbox 360 and later PlayStation 3. While this was a few years into the console generation, it was one of the games that really defined it; as indeed did a number of … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Arkham, Raiding Tombs and a trip through Mordor

Posted on July 8, 2024 by JC

As I just recently had the first big computer upgrade in almost a decade, I wanted to see how some games I’d previously played at release on low or medium settings looked today when on max settings. So I reinstalled … Continue reading →

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