Patrick Dane Archives

The price of the Switch is going to be crucial to its success. The cheaper it is, the more I expect the "mainstream" to jump on board a la the Wii. We

Ghost in the Shell has a lot of work to do if it is going to convince anime fans that a Western focused film will capture the spirit of the original. It's

The Ghost in the Shell trailer landed yesterday, and it looks like a neat adaption. The controversy over Scarlett Johansson's casting as Major hasn't gone

Quite some time ago now, it was announced that Telltale Games would be doing a Marvel game. It has been near silent on that front since then though, and

After a long time coming, the live action Beauty and the Beast film from Disney now has a trailer for you to look at. I really appreciate how visually

Jurassic World wasn't so much a Jurassic Park sequel as it was a slight reboot for the series. It had things that tied it to the originals, but tonally

We know that Lando will be part of the Young Han Solo movie thanks to Donald Glover's casting, so we can expect it to show off the frenemy relationship

This is a little story that slipped me by the other day, but one worth noting regardless. With the Nintendo Switch incoming and expected to be the

A lot has been said about Jurassic World 2 over the last year or so. From quotes about the tone, to what to expect, whose returning, whose directing, and

Ghost in the Shell understandably had fans of the iconic anime worried when it was first announced. Live action anime movies are tricky, and taking on

Gone Home is a somewhat controversial game, but it is one I really like. It helped solidify its genre as one with a real following and remains relevent

As a fan of monster movies with big ol' monsters in them, Kong: Skull Island is a hotly anticipated film for myself. Add to that, the Vietnam war movie

Ant-Man was a fun enough addition to the MCU, with the film bringing a little levity to proceedings on Earth. It did however suffer a little by not having

While he didn't come on until near the end of the Harry Potter film run, David Yates has been with the series for quite some time. It looks like he will

We got a very brief bit of new footage from a Rogue One: A Star Wars Story international trailer yesterday, and today, I bring you another one with a

Writers rooms are all the rage nowadays with studios, as every big franchise is being converted into massive universe with spin offs and connecting

Nosferatu is one of the great classic horror films. It is still unsettling today, and probably gets even more so with age. The idea of remaking it seem

Movie titles get changed region to region, for a multitude of reasons. A cultural difference or an existing trademark are usually the reason, an example

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is just around the corner now. The film has seen a recent boost of marketing as you might expect too. With that we have a new

Mass Effect: Andromeda is certainly on its way with a lot of details hitting in the wake of N7 day. It also is the feature for Game Informer this month,

Beauty and the Beast has been a little coy up until recently. The film has hidden away details and images for quite some time, with it only recently that

Beware the Slenderman has been on my radar since the documentary got really good reviews out of SXSW. While the idea of a documentary about an internet

The Last Guardian, finally, is within touching distance. Likely to be the last big drop on the gaming calender on December 6th, the game will have finally

It's not a new revelation that Albus Dumbledore might be gay. J.K. Rowling has quite famously said in the past that she thinks of the character in that

While Assassin's Creed is taking a break from a new mainline game this year, the franchise is anything but quiet. Not only is there a pretty hotly

And here we go. Entertainment Weekly have just dropped the first full look at King Kong from the up coming Kong: Skull Island. Without wasting any time,

In the past we've usually had a very clear path for the Marvel movies. The next four or five years lined up for us as we go forward. Right now though,

I'd been hearing great things about Valerian since the film showed off footage of the film at San Diego Comic Con. Things like 'Luc Besson was really

Watch Dogs 2 is out next week, and after really quite disliking the first, I have to say I've been impressed by the tone of the next one being a lot more

Doctor Strange is now in lots of our rear view mirrors (but still doing very well at the box office). We can now start turning our gaze to the next films