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Andrew Carroll

Andrew is a graduate of English and Film Studies in UCD where he wrote for the Film & TV section of the University Observer. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland and currently resides there. Andrew has had a lifelong interest in film and despite being consistently outspoken on the matter insists that The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is the best film ever made. He also maintains a blog at carrollcritiques.wordpress.com

Film

Terrible Name Aside, Avengement Delivers Awesome Action

Andrew Carroll Sep 22, 2019

Avengement is a terrible name; I don’t think it’s even a word. Maybe it was a placeholder on Jesse V. Johnson and Stu Small’s script or maybe it was designed as an algorithm cheater for when people searched for the recent home media release…

Gaming

“We Go Feet First!” | Halo 3: ODST at 10

Andrew Carroll Sep 22, 2019

Before Sergeant Johnson. Before the Master Chief. Before the Fall of Reach. There were the Hell Jumpers. The elite of United Nations Space Command (UNSC) the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST) were the troops you called in when a situation…

Film

“It Could Be Here…” | 10 Years On and Community Remains Sitcom King

Andrew Carroll Sep 18, 2019

“It’s TV; it’s comfort. It’s a friend you’ve known so well, and for so long you just let it be with you, and it needs to be okay for it to have a bad day or phone in a day, and it needs to be okay for it to get on a boat with Levar Burton…

Gaming

Control is The Bureaucratic Nightmare You’ve Been Waiting For

Andrew Carroll Sep 14, 2019

Control is the culmination of many things. It's influences are wide and varied but it's distinctly it's own beast as well. It owes as much to the imagination of its writer Sam Lake as it does to the likes of Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach…

Film

Too Many Jump Scares | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Andrew Carroll Aug 23, 2019

It's time to expect better from mainstream horror. I'm not saying we should indulge in the art-house extravagances of the 2018 Suspiria remake or even return to the giallo roots of the original Suspiria. What I am saying is that there is so…

Gaming

P.T. is Dead. Five Years On it’s Ghost Still Haunts Modern Horror Gaming

Andrew Carroll Aug 18, 2019

I never played P.T. I didn't have a PlayStation 3 or 4 when it came out so I experienced the game via osmosis. It was something my friends talked to me about at parties or online. I watched playthroughs on YouTube through my fingers.…

Film

“The World is a Fine Place and Worth Fighting For” | The Hellish Cinema of David Fincher

Andrew Carroll Aug 14, 2019

How do we judge a filmmaker? Is it by the number of awards they have won? Is it by the amount of films they have made? Is it in the way they transfer character, settings and story from page to screen? If it’s David Fincher we’re talking,…

Gaming

Call of Duty, White Phosphorous and Weaponising How We Play

Andrew Carroll Aug 6, 2019

White phosphorous burns at 2,760 degrees Celsius. That's 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt titanium. Imagine then what it does to flesh and bone. Unsurprisingly it's been illegally used as a weapon against civilians in…

Film Features

No More Giant Heroes | The Iron Giant at 20

Andrew Carroll Aug 6, 2019

The ludicrous, radiation-tinged popular sci-fi/horror movies of the 1950s are all but dead. They’ve been dead quite a while, 20 years in fact, and they died with a movie no one would have suspected. Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant came out in…

Gaming

If the Gaming Industry is Changing then So Must the Gamers

Andrew Carroll Jul 27, 2019

There is a sea change happening in the gaming industry. Like all the changes that have come before and that will come again it has negatives and it has positives. Gaming is the most popular entertainment medium on the planet. It's bigger…

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