Tag: Video Game

The Cinefessions Podcast – Episode 94 – The Video Game Arc – A Silent Hill Double Feature

Welcome to the 94th episode of The Cinefessions Podcast! Today we conclude the Video Game Arc with a double feature review of Silent Hill (2006) and Silent Hill: Revelation (2012), and move on to round thirty of the Besting the Backlog Challenge. Do you want to be a part of The Cinefessions Podcast? Well now…


The Cinefessions Podcast – Episode 93 – The Video Game Arc – Max Payne (2008)

Welcome to the 93rd episode of The Cinefessions Podcast! Today we continue our Video Game Arc with a review of Max Payne (2008), and move on to round twenty-nine of the Besting the Backlog Challenge. We also discuss the Sixth Annual Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge, or #CSSC6, and announce the next podcast arc! Do you…


The Cinefessions Podcast – Episode 92 – The Video Game Arc – DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

Welcome to the 92nd episode of The Cinefessions Podcast! Today we continue our Video Game Arc with a review of DOA: Dead or Alive (2006), and move on to round twenty-eight of the Besting the Backlog Challenge. Do you want to be a part of The Cinefessions Podcast? Well now you can be by leaving…


Movie Review – Chris Ranson on Need for Speed (2014)

Title: Need for Speed (2014) Director: Scott Waugh Runtime: 130 minutes — Need for Speed is the latest video game series to get turned into a film, following in the footsteps of such “classics” as Super Mario Bros. and Doom. This time around it’s a racing game series, which typically don’t have plots (the last…


Movie Review – Doom (2005)

Title: Doom (2005) Runtime: 100 minutes Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak — This is a great example of a film that receives a lot of unearned hate. Doom is a fun action flick that delivers said action in folds. It almost feels like a movie that would’ve come out in the early 1980s as a response to Alien,…