Mon
07
Jun

How to Choose an Online Slots Game You'll Love

Choose an Online Slots Game You'll Love

Whether you’re an avid player or looking for some light entertainment, finding the right slots games can enhance your experience and maximise your enjoyment. So, how do you go about finding the best games for you? Take a look at these top tips now and you’ll find it easy to choose games that combine the right features and deliver the most exciting gameplay:

1. Try Different Themes and Graphics

If fun is the most important aspect of playing online slots, you’re going to want to choose a game that has an innovative theme and mesmerising graphics. Developers put an immense amount of effort into creating the most immersive and impressive gameplay experiences, so you won’t have to look far to find a theme that you fall in love with. From super-popular TV and film-themed games to mystical adventures and epic battles, there are online slots games to suit every interest.

Sun
06
Jun

Arrow Releases Time-Travel Thriller 12 Monkeys on Blu-ray Steelbook

12 Monkeys Steelbook Arrow

There are a few different theories of time travel that fit into fiction. The first is that the past can't be changed. The second is that changing the past creates an alternate timeline. The third is like the first, but with the twist that whatever you change in the past is what causes the present problem you initially went back to fix.

Fri
04
Jun

Old Superheroes Never Die: Cluster Fudge #1

Cluster Fudge

Cluster is a retired superhero -- a not very nice man who went around doing good things (if by good you mean killing the bad guys). His halcyon days have darkened his mood even further as he finds himself a widower and estranged from his grown children.

Thu
03
Jun

Flawed but Fun: Freddie Highmore, Astrid Berges-Frisbey Crack The Vault in Jaume Balagueró's Caper

The Vault

Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor) plays Thom, a brilliant engineering student on the verge of graduation and already turning down job offers from mulitple oil companies after a patent of his saved them millions in oil spill cleanup. But when he's approached by Walter (Liam Cunningham, Game of Thrones), a salvage ship captain who has had his most recent salvage taken from him by the Spanish government, he gets drawn into an engineering puzzle that he can't ignore.

Wed
02
Jun

Enter to Win Supernatural Season 15 on Blu-ray

Supernatural Season 15 on Blu-ray

The Winchester Brothers' epic journey comes to a thrilling and terrifying close in Season 15.

Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles), along with the angel Castiel (Misha Collins), have battled gods, demons, mythical creatures and monsters in a seemingly unending quest to save the world. But in the Apocalyptic final battle, they face off against God Himself, triggering God's decision to end this reality forever. Over 20 extraordinary episodes, the legendary Winchester brothers reach the end of their long, wayward road trip after a lifetime of hunting things and saving people. In other words... the family business.

Now you have the opprtunity to win your own copy of Supernatural's fifteenth and final season on Blu-ray. Just use the form below to use one or more entry options to get entered into our drawing. Be sure to check out the rules and regulations page first!

Wed
02
Jun

Why We Always Will Enjoy Monopoly

Monopoly Board

What is the history of Monopoly and who invented it? And why do we still enjoy this class game in 2021? Learn all you need to know about Monopoly with us.

Tue
01
Jun

Oh Devil, You God! Lucifer's Fifth Season Second Half Goes from Sublime to Ridiculous

Lucifer 5B

When Lucifer went on hiatus in the middle of its fifth season on Netflix, I had the distinct sense that I heard Fonzie revving up his motorcycle in the distance while a crew of marine biologists wheeled back the cover on a tank of sharks. And with the drop of the second half of the fifth season, I can't say I was wrong.

Tue
01
Jun

We'll Always Have Paris as Our June 2021 Bombshell of the Month!

Bombshell 2021-06

Every month our staff combs the cosplay community for up-and-coming cosplayers who deserve to have a broader audience for their work, taking into account not only costuming skills and photogenic presence, but also how they use that ability in service to others. Through this, we've not only met some talented cosplayers, but also some fine human beings.

This month our search takes us to Texas, where we meet up with a cosplayer who is in a league of her own when it comes to realizing League of Legends characters. Top this with her work helping people in her real world job and the time she spends doing cosplay for a number of local charities, and we couldn't be more pleased to introduce you, our readers, to our...

 

Mon
31
May

10th Anniversary of Super 8 Gets Blu-ray Release

Super 8 holds the distinction of being one of the best 80s films not actually made in the 80s. Pre-dating Stranger Things, Super 8 is a wonderful sort of mash-up of Stand By Me, It, Cloverfield, and E.T.

A launch vehicle for the career of Joel Courtney, who plays Joe Lamb, the son of Deputy Sheriff Lamb (Kyle Chandler), Super 8 also starred A.J. Michalka (of the Birds of Prey series and the AJ half of pop duo Aly & AJ), and (already a veteran actor) Elle Fanning as Alice Dainard, the daughter of town drunk Louis Dainard (Ron Eldard). There's bad blood between Deputy Lamb and Louis Dainard that they push onto their children, setting up a sort of Romeo & Juliet dynamic between the two coming-of-age teens.

Mon
31
May

Pixie No Fairy Tale

Pixie DVD

Pixie Hardy (Olivia Cooke, Ready Player One) is the daughter of a mob boss (Colm Meaney) who, with peace having existed between his rivals, spends his later years learning how to be the perfect homemaker and single father.. But Pixie wants more than "this provincial life," and concocts a plan to steal a large quantity of drug money from another mob, one led by Father McGrath (Alec Baldwin) and the gun-toting priests and nuns in his employ.

Fri
28
May

MacGyver's 4th Season Arrives on DVD; But Can He Save Himself from Cancellation?

MacGyver Season 4

With the Phoenix Foundation having been disbanded at the end of MacGyver Season 3, the team members find themselves forced to work in the private sector -- until newcomer Russ Taylor (Henry Ian Cusick) approaches Angus MacGyver (Lucas Till) with an offer to get the band back together. Taylor has a condition that gives him hyper-acute pattern recognition abilities, and what he has uncovered is a vast global conspiracy by an extremist group to Thanos-snap half the population of the world in the name of saving the world from global warming. Throughout the season, the concept of doing "the wrong thing for the right reason" gets used, becoming the mantra of this arc which sees Mac reunite tragically with his father (Tate Donovan), discover an aunt he never knew (Jeri Ryan) working for the bad guys, and a tenet of beliefs driving the terrorists that was authored by no less than Mac's own mother.

Fri
28
May

Road Head Indie Horror Doesn't Blow the Job

Road Head

Sexual activity in horror cinema is the riskiest of frisky film endeavors. Innumerable hormone-fueled teenagers have lost their celluloid lives at the hands of homicidal, masked slashers brimming with twisted Freudian menace and toting weaponry that reinforces their conspicuous phallic intent. The equation of sex = death is well known even to casual viewers, so much that the formula became institutionalized, then parodied; Scream built a franchise upon deconstructing the link between amorous coupling and murder, but from the potent eroticism present in Bela Lugosi’s Dracula leer to Rosemary’s Baby to Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive and the more blatant sexually-transmitted fatalities of 2015’s It Follows, the notion that physical intimacy begets personal destruction is mined with frightening consistency.

Wed
26
May

Thirteenth Season of Ancient Aliens Lands on DVD

Ancient Aliens SSN 13

When I was a kid, I gobbled up all my grandmother's discarded World Weekly News copies. The stories in them were so fantastic and inspiring, I was surprised they didn't make the nightly news. To be fair, this was around the time Close Encounters of the Third Kind was huge, and the Betty and Barney Hill story, and Project: Bluebook, glued me to my television set. I'd cut out all the articles and paste them in a scrapbook. I would later go get books by J. Allen Hynek and Erich von Däniken.

The aliens were here, and I was going to be prepared.

Tue
25
May

Five Top Comic Book Reader Apps

Top Comics Reader Apps

The Coronavirus pandemic left a mark on almost every industry including arts and entertainment. One media genre that has been severely affected is the comic book industry, especially independent comic stores. The anthologies and physical issues associated with comic books have worsened the situation for sellers. Luckily, technology and innovation have produced digital comics allowing readers of almost any language access the best comic magazines directly in the web browser or by dedicated comics apps. The rise of smart gadgets such as tablets, smartphones, and other portable devices has led to the sudden boom in comic book apps that let you read and organize comic books on your device.

Tue
25
May

The Best Comic and Movie-Themed Games of All Time

Batman Comic Games

Hollywood and comic books should provide fertile ground for producing games, and there have been many classics over the years, but there have also been some stinkers.

Atari went from being one of the biggest video game developers to losing over $560 million through poor deals including the now infamous ET game. The company denied the rumors that 13 truckloads of Atari cartridges were secretly buried in the New Mexico desert but the truth is out there.

Fortunately, there are also plenty of quality games available for fans of comic books and movies, and here are some of the best, and in some cases, unusual tie-ins.

The Dark Knight

Batman has been responsible for numerous animated shows, live-action TV, Hollywood movies, graphic novels, comics, and games.

Sun
23
May

Best Japanese Slots at Online Casinos

One thing that always amazes me about the online casino industry is how innovative slot providers can be to create slot machines. Since the advent of video slots and the arrival of themed games, many exciting slot titles with some pretty amazing themes have graced both the land-based and online casino industries.

Software providers can find inspiration for the theme of a slot machine from just about anywhere, but one of the best themes thus far is the themes inspired from the shores of Japan. As a country with a rich and diverse culture, Japan has inspired the themes of many exciting slot titles. You will find many titles inspired by the country’s history, myths, and especially their anime culture. The latest trend present in the Japanese slots market is the infusion of the Japanese anime culture in slot games, which is why you will find many Japanese slot games with an anime theme.

Sun
23
May

Justice Society: World War II Might Be DCAU Getting Back into the Multiverse Business

Justice Society: World War II

The latest offering from the DC Animated Universe is Justice Society: World War II. From everything I can discern, it is not adapted -- even loosely -- from any particular previously published story, although there are definitely elements lifted from other events and transplanted here.

Sat
22
May

Arrow Video Presents Nico Mastorakis First Film, Death Has Blue Eyes

Death Has Blue Eyes

With a career spanning over 60 years and 22 films, Greek Director Nico Mastorakis -- known for such films as Island of Death, The Zero Boys, and Bloodstone -- learned his craft on his own, starting in television work before graduating to music videos and feature films. His freshman feature, Death has Blue Eyes, is in no way his best work, but you can tell his television studies were paying off, and showing through this film that he did know how to shoot a scene like a seasoned director.

Death has Blue Eyes can only be summed up as a paranormal thriller, a buddy film, and a softcore porn that fails miserably at all three genres.  It starts as we follow a young con man and his friend into a few misadventures before they ultimately meet their match in the form of two women (one younger, one older) who have a secret themselves: they are psychics on the run from a group of men out to capture them.

Fri
21
May

25 Years Later, Mission: Impossible Still Makes Us Angry

Mission Impossible 25th Anniversary Bluray

In 1996, the cold war spy thriller series, Mission: Impossible, made the leap from fan-favorite television series to big budget theatrical production. The potential for a franchise out of this was great -- and realized, with several M:I films having been released since.

It was clear from the beginning that a torch was going to have to be passed from IMF leader Jim Phelps (with Jon Voight playing the role made iconic by Peter Graves) to the new guy, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise). Old time fans were prepared to accept that. But what they weren't prepared for was the absolutely disrespectful way Phelps was removed from duty. It's been 25 years, so I really shouldn't have to worry about a spoiler warning at this point, but if that sort of thing bothers you, this is the last paragraph you want to read of this review.

Thu
20
May

Tom and Jerry Asks the Question: What If the Whole World was Toontown?

Tom and Jerry the Movie

Tom and Jerry, the Hanna-Barbera cat-and-mouse frenemies, have had a fairly decent run of direct-to-DVD animated adventures, where our heroes get dropped into animated versions of classic movies like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, or The Wizard of Oz. Perhaps this success emboldened the decision to make the jump to the big screen with Tom and Jerry: The Movie. If so, they might have stuck with the formula that was working, choosing to animate yet another classic movie with the titular characters running hijinks behind the plot.

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