BURTON REVIEWS (and news)

(Image sourced from https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/uncharted_the_lost_legacy_announced_coming_in_2017 )   While Uncharted 4 is technically the last mainline Uncharted game, and a perfectly tied bow to wrap up the series it was, with a world so exciting, a franchise so recognisable, and characters so loveable, did you really think that would be the last we saw of the treasure hunting, badguy shooting, quip hurling Uncharted series. Yeah me neither, and just a year after the release of Uncharted 4, a bite-sized mini-venture is released staring the sexy and fierce Chloe Frazer instead of the usual unlucky sod of a protagonist Nathan Drake. So should the series be branching off into side stories of their secondary characters, or was it best for Naughty Dog to leave Uncharted to its 4 game main plot. Only one way to find out, here we go. (Image sourced from https://www.unchartedthegame.com/en-us/games/uncharted-the-lost-legacy/ ) In Lost Legacy Chloe is on the hunt for ...

(Image sourced from https://heroichollywood.com/death-note-ryuk-willem-dafoe/ ) Ah anime…wait, haven’t we been here before? A beloved and classic anime property, a live action movie incoming, controversy and fan out cry (not of the good kind) towards all the marketing material, the fate of anime to western live action adaptations in the balance! Let’s hope it goes better than last time, but I don’t think we have a Ghost of a chance, if you catch my drift. (Video sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvxNaSIB_WI ) The story of Death Note follows Light Ya-I mean Turner, Light Turner (Nat Wolff), your average all black wearing teenage boy who fills his time with angst, moodily looking off into the distance, and more angst. But when a mysterious black book falls from the sky filled with the promise of killing whoever is written inside of it, a Death Note if you will, what else is a young man to do but start a worldwide campaign of brutal justice and appoint yourself th...

(Image sourced from http://www.denofgeek.com/us/the-defenders )   Just as we had to eat our vegetables, here in the form of 5 okay to amazing Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies, before we got to the lip-licking desert that was the phenomenal first Avengers movie that has left a sizeable and long lasting impact on pop culture to this day; we have also come to this point in the Marvel Netflix shows. The vegetables have been eaten, the fantastic and brutal first season of DareDevil, the gripping thriller that was Jessica Jones, the muddled but still cool as hell second season of DareDevil that saw the introduction of both the Punisher and Elektra, the perfectly stylised Luke Cage, and the kinda bland Iron Fist. Now, after 2 long years since Matt Murdoch first put on the horns, these 4 diverse and in some cases very volatile heroes must unite, not to Avenge a loss, but to Defend the city they all so fondly call home. (Video sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB...

(Image sourced from http://screenrant.com/valerian-city-of-a-thousand-planets-release-date-china/ ) Luc Besson, a legendary director in the industry with such achievements as being the first filmmaker to showcase the talent of a young Natalie Portman in ‘ Leon ’, creating a strange but engrossing sci-fi world in ‘The Fifth Element’, and making Scarlett Johansson talk about breast milk in a serious manner in ‘Lucy’. Okay, maybe that last one isn’t really an achievement, or something any of us want to remember, but with a 2 out of 3 rate of success, Besson is still a director with a glowingly positive track record. Now, with his latest film being released, ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’, going back to his ‘Fifth Element’ strange and wacky sci-fi style, will his filmography stay as a glowing success or will his projects become a flip of a coin whether they turn out good, or god awful? (Video sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8oVfkZM3pA ) The st...