Redacted Beholder
Weaker copies of already existing games.RedactedIn a distant space prison, something's gone wrong and not only are the convicts loose - they've mutated into monsters! You play as a guard trying to...
View ArticleAll Quiet on the Western Front and American Primeval (S1)
High death count: check!All Quiet on the Western Front This German World War I flick focuses on a young German lad who joins the war and how he and his buddies quickly go from "yeah, this'll be great"...
View ArticleLord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth
Two players fight for the One Ring!In this game one player takes the role of the Fellowship (has more gold at start) while the other is Sauron (goes first), and all you are doing each turn for each of...
View ArticleMafia Mamma and Furies (S1)
Shows with organized crime.Mafia MammaIn this comedy, a regular American housewife (played by Toni Collette) is invited to the funeral of her only relative, a distant grandfather in Italy and...
View ArticleKiri-ai: The Duel
A very efficient little game once you get the rules down.This 16 card game represents a fight between two samurai on a cliff. One card is the battle field, a series of pips along the center with either...
View ArticleTime (TV) and Sifu (PC)
Media that spans a few years?TimeThis British drama series focuses on people going to prison and what happens during their time there, and it is surprisingly well done with a tight script. It also...
View Article12 Strong and Changing Lanes (2002)
Movies of conflict - on the opposite ends of the scale! Wait... all movies have conflict...12 StrongAfter the 9/11 attacks, Captain Mitch Nelson (played by Chris Hemsworth) is eager to take on the...
View ArticleViticulture World: Cooperative Expansion
An amazing game about making wines!Prelude: The base game of Viticulture is a competitive one which we didn't play but is required to play this cooperative expansion. Made by the same people who...
View ArticleState of Play: USA aligns with Russia?
It's now day 1103 of the Russia's two day special operation in Ukraine. While the battle rages on there it seems Russia is making some gains outside that theater, seemingly with the help of relatively...
View ArticleElevation and The Mountain Between Us
Movies about being high up.ElevationThis post apocalyptic action film stars Anthony Mackie as one of the survivors who lives high up in the mountains where the "horrible creatures who killed every one...
View ArticleThe Pancake Adventure
A quick Forged in the Dark adventure I ran for Jim's family when we last visited. Due to time constraints and basically making the mission up on the fly I simplified everything and let each player...
View ArticleAnnihilation and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Movies about getting wiped out.AnnihilationIn this sci-fi horror, a biology professor (Natalie Portman) volunteers to be part of a team of scientists (who apparently are also all firearms trained) to...
View ArticleBehind the Frame and Them's Fightin' Herds
Games with excellent animation.Behind the FrameThis very short and relaxed game is all about painting and puzzle solving. Despite the "painting by numbers" portions that let you brush paint everywhere,...
View ArticleCobra Kai and Golden Kamuy 2
TV series that follow movies.Cobra KaiSet around thirty years after The Karate Kid, this show follows depressed alcoholic Johnny Lawrence (again played by William Zabka, antagonist from the film) as he...
View ArticleSilo and 3%
TV Series set after a cataclysm.SiloTen thousand people live in an underground silo and they don't know why, or for how long, or much of anything really - and that is the main initial hook of this...
View ArticleThe Witcher: Sirens of the Deep and Bogota: City of the Lost
Movies with ... colons in the title?The Witcher: Sirens of the DeepThis animated film follows everyone's favorite Witcher, Geralt as he gets embroiled in basically a much darker version of the Little...
View ArticleZero Day and Paradise
Series that involve presidential action.Zero DayAfter a cyber attack causes chaos and disaster all across the USA, former president Mullen (played by Robert De Niro) is made lead investigator and put...
View ArticleHouse Wars V: The Flood
After so many years of everything going ok (well, other than a few trees growing from my rooftop gutter) this was a new one for me. My wife woke me up an hour or so after we went to bed because "it's...
View ArticleSeal Team and the Chosen
TV Series with teams of guys...Seal TeamThis seven season series follows Bravo team, led by Master Chief Jason Hayes (played by David Boreanaz) as they are deployed on dangerous missions around the...
View ArticlePandemic: On the Brink - Bio-Terrorist Mod
It's funny that after owning all these other versions of Pandemic (Rome, Iberia, Warcraft :P), I decided to revisit the original and my first expansion of On the Brink where we never actually get to...
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