A Sudden Dawn: Book Review

A Sud­den Dawn: Book Review

The story of a simple Buddhist priest trav­el­ling from India to China in the 5th Cen­tury doesn’t sound like some­thing that would more

Sennybridge, a Basho film about

Sennybridge, a Basho film about “The Chern­arus Conflict”

A  few week­ends ago my air­soft broth­ers and I were play­ers at the TA Event’s, “The Chern­arus Con­flict”. This was more

Kick Ass Movie Review : Basho has a problem with this one

Kick Ass Movie Review : Basho has a prob­lem with this one

Kick Ass is a film that draws a line in the dirt and invites you to place your­self on one more

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ : Book Review

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoun­drel Christ : Book Review

The first line of Philip Pullman’s novel reads: This is the story of Jesus and his brother Christ, of how they more

Dell Alienware M11x Review: Portable Gaming Heaven?

Dell Ali­en­ware M11x Review: Port­able Gam­ing Heaven?

When I was con­sid­er­ing tak­ing a year off, I star­ted look­ing around for a com­puter that I could take with more

Vista to Windows 7 Upgrade: Basho's Experience

Vista to Win­dows 7 Upgrade: Basho’s Experience

There is a pop­u­lar, and per­haps even fac­tual adage, which goes like this: “Never upgrade a Win­dows product; always do a more

Transition Book Review

Trans­ition Book Review

Basho reviews the latest from Iain M Banks, or is it Iain Banks? more

Magpul PTS AEG - Part Two

Mag­pul PTS AEG — Part Two

Part two of the Basho review, the gun in play! more

The Men Who Stare at Goats

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Para­psy­cho­logy Spe­cial Forces and the War on Ter­ror more

“The Day the Earth Stood Still” review (1951 & 2008 versions)

Rule 1: Don’t ant­ag­on­ize alien super-robots! more

Slumdog Millionaire Movie Review

Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire Movie Review

Cesca and I sat in the heat of the Mum­bai movie theatre around the corner from the Vic­toria Sta­tion – more

ATC 2K video camera review

ATC 2K video cam­era review

I review the BASHOCAM! water­proof video cam­era more

Kingfisher Diver-Pro review

King­fisher Diver-Pro review

Pre­pare to want one! more

Maxpedition Rolly Polly Extreme Review

Max­ped­i­tion Rolly Polly Extreme Review

Maxpedition’s latest is put through its paces more

Tropic Thunder Review

Tropic Thun­der Review

**WARNING** Mild spoil­ers ahead, noth­ing that isn’t all over the press. Tropic Thun­der has to go down as more

Four Shades Of Black

Four Shades Of Black

My review of a new clas­sic more

Basho Reviews : Eve-Online

Basho Reviews : Eve-Online

In space no one can hear you Cha, Cha, Cha! more

Sins Of A Solar Empire : Multiplayer Review

Sins Of A Solar Empire : Mul­ti­player Review

I am going to review Sins Mul­ti­player by recount­ing a game I played against my friends Jim and Kiero over broad­band from our homes. more

Basho Reviews : Michael Clayton

Basho Reviews : Michael Clayton

What is it with George these days? The last 4 or 5 movies he has been involved with have all been ser­i­ously excel­lent. Whatever is lead­ing to the rhythm he has found, I thank the god’s for it… more

Rambo IV

Rambo IV

One of the best loved char­ac­ters ever to grace the cinema screen is back! more

Death Proof

Death Proof

Death­proof is another movie from QT that speaks of his private obses­sions; deep things that are really a part of his psyche… more

Basho's paintings 1992 to 2005

Basho’s paint­ings 1992 to 2005

I have finally fin­ished a long time pro­ject (no more pro­cras­tin­a­tion for me!) to scan in all my paint­ings, draw­ings and sketches from the last 15 years and post them up here. After all they were not doing any good in my case on my cup­board! more

iPhone Review: the best office PDA ever

iPhone Review: the best office PDA ever

Many people have jumped both onto and off of the iPhone release wagon. First it was touted as the next big thing, a mind blow­ing, life chan­ging and styl­ish entry into the phone mar­ket. Bring­ing with it some amaz­ing con­nectiv­ity apps and the Apple pledge “that if you used this phone then you were offi­cially cool” Even the price wasn’t put­ting too many people off. more

Hostel 2

Hostel 2

Last night I had the mis­for­tune to watch this film. I haven’t seen the ori­ginal and frankly don’t want more

Right at your Door

Right at your Door

Right at your Door has issues.  Of course, being a film with a lim­ited budget, it stays away more

Patrick Stewart in Macbeth

Patrick Stew­art in Macbeth

Last night I took my mother to see a mas­ter per­form­ance of this most dif­fi­cult of plays. Macbeth:The Scot­tish play. Lead actor, more

Sunshine DVD movie review

Sun­shine DVD movie review

Do you recog­nise the fol­low­ing quotes? “I have seen things you people wouldn’t believe.” “This is Ripley, last sur­vivor of the Nos­tromo, more

Sarah Connor? - Basho's WA Hardballer Review

Sarah Con­nor? — Basho’s WA Hard­baller Review

The shop was fresh out of Phased Plasma Pulse-Lasers in the forty watt range more

300

300

Not since ancient times has a movie so polar­ized crit­ical opin­ion. Is the movie racist? Was it boo’ed in Ger­many? Did more

You too will believe a man can fly...

You too will believe a man can fly…

**SPOLIERS ahead!** You too will believe a man can fly. Super­man Returns has two her­oes in it.  Not just the man in tights, more

Spamalot!

Spamalot!

“Spamalot!” “Spamalot!” “Spamalot!” “It’s only a stage show.” “Shhh. Knights, I bid you wel­come to the West End! Let us ride to… Spamalot!” I was more

Children of Men

Chil­dren of Men

**SLIGHT SPOILERS** I have just got back from watch­ing Chil­dren of Men (advert) at the cinema. I will more

ICS M4 Para Anniversary 2006

ICS M4 Para Anniversary 2006

FIRST IMPRESSIONS & BATTLE REPORT ICS, in cel­eb­ra­tion of their 10 year anniversary have forged, in secret, a mas­ter gun. more

Zero 1 - Airsoft Weekender

Zero 1 — Air­soft Weekender

Or “What I saw at the week­end” CLICK THE IMAGES TO ENLARGE This week­end the Darkan­gel team and I drove down to more

Miami Vice: gun porn

Miami Vice: gun porn

Now, I am a fan of Michael Mann’s work. Heat and Col­lat­eral are fant­astic films is The Last more

War of the Worlds LIVE!

War of the Worlds LIVE!

ULLA! In what must be the greatest birth­day sur­prise since Superman’s mum gave him his first pair of red more

Oblivion review (PC)

Obli­vion review (PC)

There is an old adage that says: “If it isn’t broken then don’t fix it.” Obli­vion is an more

TM93r MAEG Review PART 2

TM93r MAEG Review PART 2

At long last the task is fin­ished. The Soul Edge is mine. A weapon of such awe­some power that grav­ity itself appears affected when the mighty ener­gies con­tained within this weapon are unleashed. more

The Last Samurai (review)

The Last Samurai (review)

This is the Samurai ver­sion of The Great Escape. Why? Because it is basic­ally a real story with more

TM 93r MAEG review

TM 93r MAEG review

A review of the new Tokyo Marui 93r Mini AEG more

The perfect face protection for airsoft?

The per­fect face pro­tec­tion for airsoft?

Have my pray­ers finally been answered? Which prayer? The one about find­ing the per­fect face pro­tec­tion for air­soft! more

Can you skirmish WA's? Part one!

Can you skir­mish WA’s? Part one!

There is a lot of talk on the for­ums about play­ing with the beau­ti­ful WA range of pis­tols. Opin­ions more

Aliens Versus Predator Movie

Ali­ens Versus Pred­ator Movie

Fran­chise movies… they will murder us all! Tagline– Who­ever wins.…we lose. Writ­ten by– Paul Ander­son Dir­ec­ted by– Paul Ander­son Star­ing– Lance Hen­riksen, Sanaa Lathan, more

Great films -

Great films — “Being There”

…it is in “Being There” that Sellers reached the true heights of per­fec­tion. more

The System of the World: Review

The Sys­tem of the World: Review

** WARNING SOME BOOK SPOILERS AHEAD – AS MARKED** I have just fin­ished the new Neil Steph­en­son book “The Sys­tem of more