Video Game Movies

It’s been a long time between drinks for Mario and Luigi at the movies. The absolutely gonzo and bizarre 1993 live-action adaptation of the classic game was such a notorious critical and financial failure that…

I spent way too long trying to work out a title referencing Olympia black metal outfit Wolves In The Throne Room and the best I could do was Wolves in the Hotel Room so… let’s…

As far as I am concerned, there are three certainties in life; death, taxes, and film adaptations of video game franchises always being bitterly disappointing or just plain bad. Over the years, so many great…

As we all know by now, the marketing campaign for Sonic the Hedgehog started as an all-out disaster with a terrible trailer displaying a humanoid Sonic in the middle of a movie that looked just…

Capitalizing off the CGI technology available to it during this age of digital filmmaking, Jeff Fowler’s Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) could have been a dream come true for younger fans of Sega as well as…

I am a secret gamer — although I suppose after this, the secret will be out! My husband bought me a PS4 one summer before he went off to do Army stuff (he is always…

Tomb Raider could also be called “white woman’s burden.” It mirrors social progress in some ways, and in others shows how far we still have to go. I haven’t seen the original Angelina Jolie version of…

Since the revamp of the Lara Croft franchise is coming out this Friday, now is a great time to look back at the best of movies based on video games. In the last three decades,…

Video games haven’t had the best luck in adapting to the big screen, but that hasn’t stopped studio executives everywhere from continuing to make downright terrible movies time and time again with video game properties.…

The holiday movies continue to roll out into theaters with the next attempt at a video game adaptation, Assassin’s Creed!  The consistent failure of video games to translate to the big screen has been well…