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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

Gaming

Foundations of Greatness | 15 Years Later Halo 2 Still Reigns Supreme

Andrew Carroll Nov 13, 2019 0

Halo 2 was, pun fully intended, a game changer. Its improvements on the mechanics and gameplay if not the story of Halo: Combat Evolved as well as the effects of its multiplayer matchmaking would be felt for years to come. Halo 2 was a…

Film

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ 6 Segments Ranked

Andrew Carroll Nov 9, 2019 0

To say the Western is a dying genre would be wrong but it's nowhere near as healthy as it once was. Still, as long as the Coen Brothers are making movies it will never really die. Out this day last year, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs set…

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“No Russian.” | A Decade on Does Modern Warfare 2 Still Shock and Awe?

Andrew Carroll Nov 9, 2019 0

It's hard to shock these days. Whether in real or fictional media shocking people so desensitised to war, violence and sex is difficult to do. I suppose it's worth questioning whether things were any different ten years ago? In 2007 Call of…

Film

Good Fights Aside, There is Little to Hail in The King

Andrew Carroll Nov 5, 2019 0

It feels wrong to compare a historical medieval epic to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. One is mired in the murky details of the past. The other is beholden to the basic swords and sorcery concept its adaptations would eventually refine it…

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Literature on Film | On Page and Screen The Terror Creates A Hopeless Void

Andrew Carroll Nov 3, 2019 0

At a certain point in The Terror - Dan Simmons' doorstop novel and David Kajganich and Soo Hugh's AMC adaptation - every character reaches their breaking point. Some of them break like frigid iron, shattering into hundreds of disparate…

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Game Review: Modern Warfare Makes Propaganda in the Name of Progress

Andrew Carroll Nov 1, 2019 0

Why bother joining the army anymore? Why bother seeing the world, meeting people and then shooting them when a video game can give you the same experience? Ever since Call of Duty left the Second World War behind the series has never been…

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The Best Horror Games of the Millennium So Far…

Andrew Carroll Oct 29, 2019 0

Horror gaming has really evolved since the new millennium put it's cold claws around our necks. Mainstream horror games are no longer relegated to zombie infested mansions or towns overcome by thick fog and pyramid-headed monsters. Ever…

Film

“Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously?” | A Primer on Folk Horror

Andrew Carroll Oct 28, 2019 0

Since we could walk on two legs we have feared the dark and so we drove it back with fire and with electricity and eventually with screens. We realised our fears on pages and paintings and film. We gave them names and faces and shapes.…

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“Dig This Mama” | Black Dynamite at 10

Andrew Carroll Oct 23, 2019 0

Ten years ago the well of parody films was dry. Meet the Spartans, Vampires Suck and ceaseless Scary Movies had drank it empty leaving nothing but hot air and a barely there puddle. Within that puddle writers Michael Jai White, Byron Minns…

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Borderlands at 10: The Strange Legacy of the Looter Shooter

Andrew Carroll Oct 21, 2019 0

It's hard to find a game these days that doesn't promise tonnes of loot or that doesn't require a constant internet connection. Back in 2009 no games other than those dedicated to online multiplayer required a constant internet connection.…

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