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Wonder Woman Review

I feel like the superhero film craze has been in swing long enough that the origins for them all are all so well known that there are barely any origin stories worth telling at this point. Fortunately Wonder Woman is just what I was looking for in a genre that has become more and more predictable and downright boring in so many ways for what seems like a decade now. Like any good origin story Wonder Woman has a much slower pace than the standard comic action film that we have come to know and the film benefits greatly from this. You never end up in a situation and think to yourself; wait, how did we get here? The film is patient yet very exciting and goes places very few, if any in fact, other films in the genre have done in quite a while. I really don't like to draw upon comparisons in film but I feel there is a very obvious one for Wonder Woman and I want to get it out of the way quickly. I enjoyed Man of Steel more than most but my main complaint with Man of Steel was that the

Untitled Gaming Podcast Episode 3

I am back on blogger for the forseeable future. Tumblr has got some really dodgy stuff going on which I'll cover later this week but in the mean time here is the latest episode: https://soundcloud.com/user-681687483/untitled-gaming-podcast-episode-3-22-10-2017 Two man show this week. Got plenty of news to discuss. Start - Original Xbox back compat games list 4m - Shadow of War selling very well despite loot box stuff 10m - Cliff Bleszinski interview on the current state of Lawbreakers 21m - UK gov responds to loot boxes as gambling 26m - Steam sales until next year dated 32m - Halo The Master Chief Collection upcoming fixes and XB1X update with a fair amount of Halo talk 50m - Activisions patent for micro transaction focused matchmaking 1hr 10m - Games played