Author: Oliver Patterson

Christmas and You Review
Feb
14
entertainment

Christmas and You Review

 

Christmas and You is a heart-wrenching ballad about losing everything at Christmas time. There is a reason why lots of different faiths have a winter holiday. The cold is biting and the days are short. Faith and love fortify people. Those connections make people less vulnerable to the outside world. Christmas and You explore a […]

Oliver Patterson
Hollywood Blvd. Review
Feb
3
entertainment

Hollywood Blvd. Review

 

Hollywood Blvd. by Love Ghost and Go Golden Junk is an exploration of the ups and downs of living in the overstimulated world of Hollywood. Ghostie covers the contrast between the party lifestyle and the loneliness that manifests when finding success in the centre of the entertainment world. Playing off the traditional conventions of punk […]

Oliver Patterson
Redeemer Review
Jan
25
entertainment

Redeemer Review

 

Redeemer isn’t a game to coddle you. From its opening moments, the top-down brawler by Sobaka Studio thrusts players into relentless, visceral combat. This isn’t about precise timing or complex combos as much as it is about calculated aggression, environmental awareness, and quick decision-making under pressure. Expect to die, learn, and then unleash absolute mayhem. […]

Oliver Patterson
White Bird Review
Jan
15
entertainment

White Bird Review

 

Imagine sitting across from a grandparent, their eyes holding decades of stories, some too painful to easily share. You know there’s a secret history, a profound experience that shaped them, but the words don’t always come. This is the feeling White Bird evokes, a film that attempts to bridge the vast chasm between memory and […]

Oliver Patterson
Flask Review
Jan
6
entertainment

Flask Review

 

Alright, let’s get straight to it. If you’re building web services, especially REST APIs, and you haven’t truly embraced Flask, you’re missing out. I’ve been slinging Python code for almost two decades, and through countless projects – from tiny internal tools to massive, user-facing platforms – Flask consistently proves its worth. It’s not just a […]

Oliver Patterson
Christmas From Afar Review
Jan
4
entertainment

Christmas From Afar Review

 

Sometimes, during the Christmas season, it’s hard to understand the intricacies of the holidays through the chaos of the family dynamics, the cooking, and the presents. However, with the festive period in the rearview mirror, we can see it more clearly. Christmas feels like it intensifies all emotions, positive and negative. We build it up […]

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Le marteau et l’enclume Review
Dec
14
entertainment

Le marteau et l’enclume Review

 

Le marteau et l’enclume (The hammer and the anvil) by SLDGHRAM 1ER is a collection of industrial electronic tracks that use psychedelic soundscapes to build a beautiful and contradictory miasma of sound which is just as engaging during the heat of the chaos as it is during the brief moments of clarity. The opening track, […]

Oliver Patterson
Royal Space Dog Review
Dec
7
entertainment

Royal Space Dog Review

 

Norwegian Dream pop from the birthplace of the Vikings is an unexpected combination of words I didn’t expect to write today. When people think of Vikings, they don’t often associate it with the neo-psychedelic pop sound that defines the subgenre. However, Royal Space Dog by ANDREAS GRANNES manages to knock this relaxed Lofi banger out […]

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December Songs Review
Dec
1
entertainment

December Songs Review

 

THE MARS MCCLANES, the band behind December Songs, describe the holiday season in an innovative and resonant way: “A state of seasonal bliss is like an exclusive nightclub, complete with a bouncer and velvet rope. Waiting outside is tolerable—right up until the moment the fortunate ones get to skip the line. At that point, you’re […]

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