Hey guys, quick blog entry on the exciting news of a brand new Alien movie that was announced this morning! As a huge fan of the franchise, and owner of the Alien Anthology and Prometheus , this news has me pretty damn excited. I've always been a huge fan of the Alien franchise, ever since I reached my teens and saw Aliens for the very first time. The space setting, the horror elements, the action elements, the pacing, the bleakness, the Xenomoph's, I loved all of it. I went out to watch Alien 3 which I think has its merits, and whilst a flawed film, it's still an enjoyable watch. Alien: Resurrection is... eh. VERY flawed, a few redeeming qualities but they are few and far between in my mind. I only sat down and watch the original Alien movie from 1979 a few years ago, constantly worried it would be too dated for my liking; instead, I was stunned by how well it held up for even today's standards, and I put it right alongside Aliens as my of my favourite films o

My earliest memory of the most successful Marvel character in history is surprisingly not the comic books from which Spiderman came from. I was going through my old collection (of over 175 issues) and noticed the earliest issue was from January 1997 (and what a horrifying cover it is too!) . I did some digging; turns out my earliest memory of Spiderman is the 1994 animated series that used to air on Live & Kicking. Ah, memories - and speaking of memory, mine is better than I thought! I would've been 3 or 4 years old at the time Spiderman began airing. I remember also for my 5th birthday in Wales being given a Spiderman VHS tape (remember those?!) as a present which featured the debut of Venom. No wonder he's still one of my favourite villains to this day!  The 1994 Spiderman cartoon was amazing.   The Spiderman cartoon was a pretty damn faithful adaption of the comics, and included all the popular characters from Spidey's illustrious rouge gallery - G

I'm honestly not sure where to start with Death Note, because the series caught me completely off-guard when I started watching it a month or so ago. As chronicled in my Fullmetal Alchemist retrospective back in October , I had re-discovered my love for anime, and was on a quest to start watching more series' that were available on Netflix. I started off with Sword Art Online which held my attention for the first season (a retrospective of that will be written when I finally get round to watch season two), but none of the other shows on Netflix particularly appealed to me. Chris, a colleague at work, had suggested that I started watching Death Note, as it was the series that sparked his interest in anime. Figuring I had nothing to lose, and seeing the universal praise it'd received on the internet, I decided to buy the boxset of 37 episodes. I popped the first disc in just before Christmas, and... something didn't click. I'm still not 100% sure what