THE TALE of Wolverine has been one of the most enduring narratives provided by Marvel comics in their lengthy history. This is evidenced by the sheer number of comics dedicated to the character and the...
A quick note: Since Final Fantasy II never received an official English localisation in its original form, I relied on Demiforce’s excellent fan-translation for the purposes of this write-up. HIRONOBU Sakaguchi was in a pickle....
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, not to feel left out, I went on my own legendary adventure and saved Princess Zelda from the evil Ganondorf. Before this game, I had only played one...
“LAWS, LIKE SAUSAGES, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” – Jon Saxe Politics has gotten really weird. I mean, it’s always been a bacon-bowl mouth-burn of conflicting human interests...
ROUNDING out February at Torments, Dan takes a look at a slab of indelibly delicious zeitgeist cheese. Some films define a generation. Some, like Xanadu and Road House, actually kill a decade. And then...
Earlier today Microsoft announced Xbox Game Pass which is, to put it simply, Netflix but for Xbox One and Xbox 360 games. Here is the press release: Today, we’re continuing our commitment to give...
WELL THEN, without further ado, let’s talk about the original Final Fantasy – the one that kicked off this whole screaming clawing feathered-hair 2D 3D HD shebang – by talking about Dragon Quest. Yes,...
TO SAY THAT Period Drama, and especially BBC Period Drama, had become a tad stale, trite even, is an understatement. I certainly have had simply enough of corsets and horse drawn carriages and stiff,...
A MASTERPIECE of Indie Folk, Elliott Smith’s 1997 album Either/Or may just be his magnum opus (although any of the five albums released in Smith’s lifetime could be considered worthy of that title). On...
THIS TIME on Film Torments, Dan finally gets round to a Fuck You it’s January film if ever he saw one. There are a variety of definitions for ‘cult film’, but most revolve around...
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