Big Giant Robots

I finished reading Bret Hitman Hart’s autobiography today.  As expected of The Excellence of Execution, it was excellent.  This book is full of so many great little stories that seem crazy but somehow all too believable. I’m probably too biased in favour of Bret to know if it’s him hyping himself when he talks of [...]

Street Fighter IV is an awesome fighting game, easier and more recognizable to SFII fans than SFIII but still done so that a skilled player can destroy a noob faster than you can load a fight if you don’t do the install… Anyway this isn’t about how good it is, or even the few things [...]

The other night I sat down and watched “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”. Mini Review Not a bad film, but not great. John C. Reilly is always funny, but Apatow takes the comedy too far. Would have been much better if they had stoped most jokes one line earlier. This made me think. Most [...]

We are still finding our feet here at BGR central command, but something I know is that we are enjoying our selfs. The blog is coming along nicely, so we are ready to try new things. So the second phase of BGR is about to begin. We don’t only want to write a collaborative blog [...]

I have been a fan of Luc Besson for a long time now, ever since I first saw “Léon” so many years a go. He is also responsible for the best value I have ever had at the cinema, watching “The Fifth Element” for just £1 can not be beaten in my view (as well [...]

What can I say about the genesis of “Red Dwarf”? In a strange way I am not at all surprised. I did not have very high hopes for this “series” and in a way they managed to hit the nail exactly where I thought they would. That is not to say there were not things [...]

If you don’t know me, I am a huge Dragonball fan, I have an army of Goku toys (stopped keeping a count around the 50 mark) and have watched all of Dragonball/Dragonball Z and even GT numerous times. I am a biased hard-core fan I freely admit it. I went into this movie expecting it [...]