Press X To Reload

Oct 31 2024 84 ep. 43 mins 1

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Video game to film adaptations are often seen as terrible, and sometimes even unwatchable. We're looking back at these films and giving them a second chance, reviewing them with a focus on finding the good in them.

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Emesis Blue (2023)

Oct 31 2024 36 mins

Just in time for Halloween, we review "Emesis Blue", a full length psychological horror created with Source Filmmaker and utilizing the assets of Team Fortress 2. The fate of the videogame-to-film adaptation is in the hands of the fans now. Will it survive the experience? Here's a link to the full film on YouTube: YouTube - EMESIS BLUE CONTENT WARNING: government experiments, p

Postal (2007)

Jul 12 2024 39 mins

We review "Postal", Uwe Boll's ultimate challenge to good taste. If you think you've seen the bottom of the Boll, you have NO IDEA. CONTENT WARNING: 9/11, racist stereotypes, mass shootings, kidnapping, exploiting the disabled, baby manslaughter, religious cults, explicit language... look, this whole episode is a trigger for SOMEBODY. Don't blame us if you listen to this one! F

Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

Jun 14 2024 36 mins

We review "Five Nights at Freddy's", where a man is tricked into working night security at a haunted children's playhouse, and must survive against a collection of evil animatronics. It may be based on the original game, but this film arrived so late it feels like Coke Zero compared to Willy's Wonderland. CONTENT WARNING: child murder, neglectful parents, greedy relatives, Matthe

Heavenly Sword (2014)

May 24 2024 32 mins

We review "Heavenly Sword", a Chosen One™ story with worse presentation than the 2007 PS3 game it's based on, and even less engagement with its audience. The title may promise heaven, but we found something else entirely. CONTENT WARNING: raping/pillaging, deaf sentries, murdered villagers, re-murdered villagers, mild language. Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bres

Ni No Kuni (2019)

May 03 2024 34 mins

We review "Ni No Kuni", a story about a fantasy world linked to our own by the worst thing possible: a "chosen one" anime hero with an IQ equal to his age. CONTENT WARNING: jealous boyfriends / mass murderers / multi-dimensional terrorists (and that's all just one guy!), mild language. Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr. Our theme music was c

Gran Turismo (2023)

Apr 05 2024 38 mins

We review "Gran Turismo", the true story of a Nissan exec who watched The Last Starfighter too many times and thought "Why not this, but with race cars?" Can video game skills translate to a real race track? Don't cheat and look up the story on Wiki, experience it with us! CONTENT WARNING: reckless management, car crashes, father and son conflict, anti-"Nick" propaganda, mild la

The King of Fighters (2009)

Mar 15 2024 36 mins

We review "The King of Fighters", where a young Japanese boy out for revenge trains to become a white man and travel to another dimension for a chance to become the KING OF FIGHTERS™ because... something to do with a floating, pulsating ball of slithering energy snakes? Yeah, we're not sure how to process that one, either. CONTENT WARNING: mind control, secret lesbians, snake

Detention (2019)

Oct 31 2023 33 mins

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE! This spooky season we watch "Detention", a haunting mystery about two students trapped inside a hellscape that may well be of their own making. Is there anything scarier than going back to school? How about a 1960s Taiwanese school at the height of the White Terror... and also ghosts? CONTENT WARNING: military oppression, icky student-teacher relation

Final Fantasy: Advent Children COMPLETE (2005)

Sep 29 2023 38 mins

It's our last stop on our Franchise Tour, and we're wrapping things up with something special: our first sequel! We review "Final Fantasy: Advent Children COMPLETE", a feature length CG cutscene that tries to follow up one of the biggest video games ever. Are you curious what happened after the events of Final Fantasy VII? Do you want to know more about your favourite character

HALO Legends (2010)

Sep 07 2023 35 mins

We look at an anthology of anime-tinged tales from the HALO universe, with stories ranging from educational to badass to downright silly. Don't worry, fanboys: they're probably not (all) canon. Want more Master Chief madness? Here's him "returning" a bomb to The Covenant, from the game HALO 2: Giving the Covenant back their Bomb - Halo 2 Anniversary CONTENT WARNING: interplane