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Richard is a two-time film graduate who, by day, wastes his life working through a less aesthetically interesting 'Brazil'-like bureaucracy. The rest of time he can be found with a cup of tea while writing/reading/videogaming, or some hubristic, unworkable combination of the above. He was also co-editor of HeadStuff's Film and TV section for some time.
You absolutely shouldn't listen to his James Bond podcast "Quantum of Friendship". (Yes, he's knows the name is terrible. Yes, that was the point.)
Would like to be Selina Kyle when he grows up.

Gaming

Game Review | Robocop: Rogue City is Part Game, Part Glitch, All Great Fun

Richard Drumm Nov 12, 2023 0

Much like James Bond, another of cinema’s great mass murderers; Robocop has been largely ill served by the very medium that seems tailor made for him. While we wait with great anticipation – and growing impatience – to see what IO…

Film Review

Shazam! Fury of the Gods Has Its Charms But Could Do More | Film Review

Richard Drumm Mar 18, 2023 0

Shazam/Billy (Zachary Levi and Asher Angel) returns, now aided by his fellow foster siblings who he shared his superpowers with at the climax of the previous film. The ‘Fam’ (formerly known as the ‘Marvel Family’ in the comics but no…

Film

Film Review | Another Round Successfully Avoids The Pitfalls Of A PSA

Richard Drumm Jul 2, 2021 1

It would have been all too easy to make Another Round look like a wild, Danish, middle-aged version of a frat movie. Or a highly judgmental meditation on society's relationship to recreational drinking. So commendations to the trailer…

Gaming

Game Review: Hitman 3 Caps Off the Definitive Murder-Sim Trilogy

Richard Drumm Feb 16, 2021 0

Looking at the position IO Interactive now finds itself in - a critically acclaimed and very well liked return to form for their flagship series finished, and moving onto the first 007 game in almost a decade - you'd be forgiven for…

Film

Tainted Love | Are The Silence Of The Lambs And Hannibal Valentines Movies?

Richard Drumm Feb 14, 2021 0

As the interminable annual tradition of debating what is and isn’t a Christmas movie starts to recede from memory, perhaps it’s time to start into the next evolution of that argument; what is and isn’t a Valentine’s movie. What could be…

Gaming

Game Review | Is Crash Bandicoot 4 a “Whao!” or a No?

Richard Drumm Oct 12, 2020 0

In recent years, we’ve had a number of franchises who decided to come out with a sequel that disregarded a lot of the preceding dead weight of the series. Terminator Dark Fate positioned itself as a direct sequel to the last film in that…

Film Features

Fifteen Candles on Matthew Vaughn’s Layer Cake

Richard Drumm Aug 27, 2019 0

Despite being a humble little British gangster film from the early noughties, Layer Cake sits in the oddly prestigious position of being ground zero for two different spy franchises of the present. Most obviously, this film is considered…

Film

A Well-Staged Headache | Aquaman Review

Richard Drumm Dec 12, 2018 0

The most amusing thing about Aquaman is that DC/WB wouldn’t consciously even make this film anymore; so dramatic has their change of tune been since when it was initially being put together and now. Well into production before the ‘misstep’…

Film

Quantum of Solace at 10 | The Underrated Sequel to Casino Royale

Richard Drumm Nov 14, 2018 3

‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ as a turn of phrase is often especially true of films. However there are times – and movies – where the opposite holds just as true; Quantum of Solace is one such example. One wonders if this…

Gaming

Game Review | Hitman 2 is Thankfully More of the Same

Richard Drumm Nov 13, 2018 0

When Hitman “Season 1” began to release back in 2016, there was a justifiable weariness. An episodic, always online (despite being single player only) Hitman game sounded like the perfect storm to finally kill off a beloved franchise that…

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