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Lucky Louie was a short lived sitcom made by American network HBO that aired during 2006 and was essentially a vehicle for the brilliant comedian Louis CK. The humour in Lucky Louie is mostly derived from CK’s stand up material and often falls into the bracket of typical sitcom fare; the brutal banality of parenthood, [...]

Er. We’ve been a bit quiet lately. Sorry about that.  I have a few unfinished articles queued up.  In keeping with the Hallowe’en theme, one is on why Resident Evil is bloody horrible, and not in the way it intended.  For now, though, I couldn’t resist talking about this…
Hunting Frenzy is a hunting game.  Or, [...]

In the run up to Halloween we here at The Daily Scoundrel are asking some of our favourite writers about the spooky films, books, music and games that they would recommend for All Hallows Eve. Here, Art Fist editor Jonathan Cronshaw talks about 1998 Chinese zombie movie Biozombie…
When it comes to underrated Chinese zombie films [...]

Be prepared this month my friends. For legions of black clad heavy rock fans are set to descend upon our good city with the sole intention of enjoying the finest in extreme music performed by the veritable cream of the heavy metal crop. Yes, the hugely popular Damnation Festival is coming to Leeds University on [...]

I am not going to beat around the bush here, The Cubical’s new album, ‘Come Sing These Crippled Tunes’ is nothing short of fantastic.
From the first track right through to the last it never loses any of the excitement that the band seem to carry around with them in abundance. I was fortunate enough to [...]

Zero 7 must be pretty annoyed by the majority’s reaction to their new record, Yeah Ghost.  Released last week to a collection of relatively decent reviews, there’s a thread running through both the critical and consumer commentary.  Zero 7 has always been the baby of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker, and there’s no change to [...]

Charles Bukowski, the bard of the bar room and laureate of the lowlife, is a monumental figure in post war American fiction. As ground breaking as Hunter S Thompson, Kerouac or Burroughs at their best, Bukowski’s rejection of the American dream is still as thrilling today as it was when first published.
For me, reading [...]

There I was getting wound up about one semi-games-related thing, and my girlfriend shouts through from the other room with another.  Seems, in this week’s edition of women’s real-life mag Take A Break, the editor’s mounting a campaign (along with the more motherly of the magazine’s readership) to ban the Grand Theft Auto and [...]

I’m a real sucker for vintage horror anthology flicks. There was a veritable raft of scary gems produced by studios like Amicus and Hammer during the 1960s and 70s including titles like The House That Dripped Blood, Tales From the Crypt and Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors. These portmanteau films comprise a selection of supernatural [...]