Taming

ITV has been in trouble for quite a while, losing viewers and their trust through a series of blunders; the most infamous being the phone-in scandal of last year. Perhaps more worrying is the current lack of original programming Michael Grade has found himself in. The newest of ITV’s current series is a Spitting Image-esque animation called Headcases which has taken over ITV’s 10pm slot on Sundays. While the series tries to pass itself off as a slick political satire, it ultimately earns its reputation as a stagnant Spitting Image rip off full of stale material and recurring jokes.

Based on the 2003 Novel by author P D James (who, incidentally, appears in a cameo as “Old Woman in Cafeteria”), Children of Men (2006) delivers an intelligent, thought-provoking and stylish kick up the arse to mindless and hollywood cinema. Director Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) takes some risks with the storytelling, and it pays off in cinema gold, giving us one of the best movies in a long time.

“Yes! I am Montag. Master of illusion. Defier of the laws of reason. What is real? Are you certain you know what reality is? How do you know, that at this second, you aren’t sleeping in your bed, dreaming that you’re in this theater?“

The ’70s horror market is well known for spawning the underground genre known as ‘exploitation cinema‘; low-budget films that cover a series of taboo and lewd subjects accompanied by a massive helping of gore.
Among the many now renown directors of the Exploitation era, Herschell Gordon Lewis is perhaps one of the most famous. The Wizard of Gore is perhaps one of his best-known films that has spawned many imitations and one remake, and is still considered a defining film in the exploitation market today.

Sandbox Gameplay is an increasingly popular feature in video-games today. Players don’t just want a linear aspect in levels where you have to get from A to B; they want a large, open level where you have a certain degree of choice concerning what you do and how you do it. The most popular sandbox games out there would have to be the Grand Theft Auto series (which has spawned a number of GTA Clones) and The Sims.
Usually, the term “GTA Clone” is used in a pejorative sense, but in the case of “Destroy All Humans!”, a martian and B-Movie themed sandbox game developed by Pandemic and published by THQ, this is probably what saves the game.