I’m Nathan Favel and welcome to my first Impact Wrestling review for Nerdly. As I recently spoke of in my “Opinionated” column concerning the former TNA Wrestling, I have a genuine interest in seeing this company succeed, even if that is just as a good old wrestling fan. With the WWE being more stagnant than […]
Written by Michael Vaughn | Published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd | Format: Paperback, 352pp The Ultimate Guide to Strange Cinema is a new book from Michael Vaughn which does what it says in the title. Delivering a comprehensive guide to some of the strangest films from around the world, which includes a mixture of the […]
Here’s your Lucha Underground Season 4, episode 3, review for Wednesday June 27th 2018: Match #1: XO Lishus beat Jack Evans Regularly known as Sonny Kiss, this was XO Lishus’s debut. With a vibrant personality and a buoyant move-set, XO took on Jack Evans, one of wrestling’s best aerialists and all-around fighters. Evans was a […]
Stars: Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Isabela Moner, Elijah Rodriguez, Catherine Keener, Matthew Modine | Written by Taylor Sheridan | Directed by Stefano Sollima 2015’s Sicario was the film that elevated its director Denis Villenueve and got him the Blade Runner gig. Relentlessly grim and sometimes frustratingly evasive, it might not have functioned brilliantly as […]
In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks to director Keith English about the period, comedy/drama The More You Ignore Me. Written by Jo Brand and starring Sheridan Smith, Ella Hunt, Mark Addy, Sally Phillips and Sheila Hancock. Alice (Ella Hunt) and her family are far from conventional. Residing in a cottage in rural Hertfordshire, […]
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres. For those unfamiliar, with the series, The […]
Here is this week’s WWE NXT review for Wednesday June 27th 2018: Match #1: Kona Reeves beat Max Humberto This was a quick squash that made Kona look like the wrong guy to meet in a dark alley. Kona seems to grow more self-assured, more aggressive and more dangerous each time he competes between the […]
In DIGITAL SHORTS we review some of the latest video games that are only available digitally (at least in the UK), in a short-form review format. In this edition we take a look at Cast of Seven Godsends, a 16-bit side-scrolling homage now available on the Nintendo Switch. The Kingdom of Dareca is about to […]
Here is the WWE 205 Live review for Tuesday June 26th 2018: Match #1: Akira Tozawa beat Tony Nese The whole idea here was that two great wrestlers with egos to match tried to show-up each other. Nese was in power for most of the match, with a torture rack as an early high-light from […]
Megacon, the Southeast’s largest fan convention with shows in both Orlando and Tampa Bay, returned to the Orange County Convention Center on Thursday May 24th through Sunday May 27th 2018. This year, Megacon Orlando welcomed more than 100,000 fans throughout the Memorial Day weekend with a long roster of celebrity guests, endless programming and much […]
Once upon a time, fluidly realistic character animation was a new thing in gaming. In 1989, Jordan Mechner’s Prince of Persia gave us a groundbreaking rotoscoped avatar (based on Mechner’s own brother, no less). In 1991, French developer Delphine Software pushed the medium into cinematic territory with the brief but dazzling Another World. The following […]
Welcome to more of our expanded coverage of wrestling here on Nerdly. We’ll be presenting RAW/Smackdown/205 Live/Main Event results and recaps after each episode and we’ll have column at the end of the week where we name the best matches of the week, the worst moments of the week and the biggest news items about […]
Emanating from their studio in Cincinnati, Ohio, The History of Bad Ideas sees hosts Jason, Jeff and Blake talk about all things geeky on their podcast. Whether it’s rumours of the latest comic book movies, debating who really is the worst villain of all time, discussing the latest comic issues or just wondering about life […]
Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice is, as the name suggests, a dice game that recreates the chaotic and exciting fun of Mexican Wrestling. Like all dice games, Luchador! includes a huge amount of luck, but thanks to the way different dice rolls interact with each other and due to the inclusion of some advanced rules, there […]
Splatoon 2’s single-player campaign was an enjoyable showcase for the series’ unique art style and paint-swimming mechanics, although at times it did feel like an extended tutorial for the multiplayer main draw. Apparently seeking to address this, Nintendo have now produced their Octo Expansion. And expansive it is: this feels like the adventure we solo […]
Best in the World is the next pay-per-view from Ring of Honor, taking place at the UMBC Event Center in Catonsville, Maryland on June 29th 2018. The event marks the the ninth annual ROH Best in the World PPV and wrestlers from New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and Japanese women’s promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom – […]
Stars: Lola Gove, Axel Holst, Anika Strauss, Matthan Harris, Denis Lyons, Milton Welsh, Désirée Giorgetti, Kristina Kostiv, Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt | Directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Michal Kosakowski, Andreas Marschall Whenever a new underground horror film gets announced; I can get instantly overtaken by doubt. I have had too many underwhelming and tedious experiences. Every now and then, a film comes around […]
Welcome to the first in our expanded coverage of wrestling here on Nerdly. We’ll be presenting RAW/Smackdown/205 Live/Main Event results and recaps after each episode and we’ll have column at the end of the week where we name the best matches of the week, the worst moments of the week and the biggest news items […]
Another week, another episode of the Pop Addled podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly! Pop Addled is a pop culture podcast with nerd tendencies. Join Keenan, Sam and Timmy as they discuss movies, music, video games, sports, TV, comics, and any intersection thereof. Their brains have been thoroughly addled by pop […]
Welcome to this week’s Ring of Honor review. I’m Nathan Favel and we’ve got some great action ahead of us tonight. Let’s jump right into the fray at break-neck speed (not literally, it’s just a television review… I probably didn’t need to say that). Match #1: Jay Lethal vs. Chuckie T (Chuck Taylor) This is […]
The Journey Down is a traditional graphic adventure game with the standard point and click interface but a unique setting and tone. Having been around in various forms since 2010, this final re-vamped version on the Nintendo Switch is easily the most definitive and feels right at home on the platform. The setting of The Journey […]
