DISCLAIMER:
Before we get started, I have to state for the record that the following article is NOT a Fiction Friday piece.  This is factual.  I don’t even have the kind of time or inclination to make this kind of story up, because it takes the laws of all things rational and puts them squarely on [...]

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I took Media Studies during my younger and more studious life. Post-education I promised that I would try to never use the techniques I was taught to better understand trailers for films, rational being that I intended to try and enjoy things rather than think about them too much.
And here I am, for you, telling [...]

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If the title of my article didn’t catch your attention, let me re-iterate: talk has been brewing about Paramount Pictures putting actor Vin Diesel in a movie roughly based on the same source material as Midway/Ubisoft’s title Wheelman. It’s a huge stretch for the actor/producer, but can he pull it off?
I give my theories on [...]

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Well, it was bloody inevitable.
Let’s face it. Apparently, the world is starting to run out of unique ideas; you have no further to look than the video game industry to prove that fact.  Almost every major video game title people have been looking forward to in recent memory are all sequels.  Fallout 3, Resident Evil [...]

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Okay, “it’s rubbish” isn’t exactly what John Davis, producer of I, Robot, Alien Vs. Predator, Dr. Dolittle and the upcoming The Sims movie adaption said when talking about his future game-inspired project. As revealed back in July, EA have signed a deal with the United Talent Agency in Hollywood to produce TV and film adaptions [...]

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