Kevin Kissane

cinema

Aug 5, 2026

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3 min read

Spider-Man: Brand New Day - The Return of Peter Parker

Why Spider-Man: Brand New Day reminds us who Peter Parker really is

Kevin Kissane

1980s

ThunderCats Episode #12 – “The Doomgaze” (IMDB: 7.4)

Jul 31, 2026

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #12 – “The Doomgaze” (IMDB: 7.4)

"Sooo beautiful"

Kevin Kissane

Super Play Top 100: #91 - Kikikaikai (AKA Pocky & Rocky), (88%, Issue 5)

May 11, 2026

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4 min read

Super Play Top 100: #91 - Kikikaikai (AKA Pocky & Rocky), (88%, Issue 5)

Spooky Tanuki shooting shenanigans

Kevin Kissane

Animation

ThunderCats Episode #11 – “The Ghost Warrior” (IMDB: 7.9)

Apr 13, 2026

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3 min read

ThunderCats Episode #11 – “The Ghost Warrior” (IMDB: 7.9)

Who ya gonna call? Ghost traitors

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Mar 20, 2026

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Desert Strike

"Doesn't do anything (obviously) that a weedy Mega Drive couldn't do"

Kevin Kissane

Animation

ThunderCats Episode #10 – “Mandora - The Evil Chaser” (IMDB: 7.4)

Mar 14, 2026

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #10 – “Mandora - The Evil Chaser” (IMDB: 7.4)

Escape pods, space cops and living ooze: William Overgard lets ThunderCats off the leash

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Feb 27, 2026

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4 min read

Super Play Top 100: #92 - Desert Strike (90%, Issue 4)

A helicopter, a desert, and the tyranny of good intentions

Kevin Kissane

cinema

Feb 20, 2026

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4 min read

Movie Review - The Shadow’s Edge

Jackie Chan: still the hardest-working pensioner in cinema

Kevin Kissane

Animation

ThunderCats Episode #9 – “The Garden of Delights” (IMDB: 7.5)

Feb 9, 2026

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3 min read

ThunderCats Episode #9 – “The Garden of Delights” (IMDB: 7.5)

Where a children’s cartoon discovers hallucinogens and tries not to make a fuss about it

Kevin Kissane

television

Hap & Leonard: A Swamp Noir with a Moral Compass

Jan 30, 2026

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3 min read

Hap & Leonard: A Swamp Noir with a Moral Compass

A hidden gem amongst the deluge of mid to late 2010's streaming captures Joe R. Lansdale's characters on screen like none ever could again

Kevin Kissane

ps5

Vanquish, or How to Make a Shooter Dance

Jan 22, 2026

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5 min read

Vanquish, or How to Make a Shooter Dance

When the Resident Evil creator went full sci-fi

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Jan 15, 2026

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Parodius

"I did find the game ever so slightly boring and predictable"

Kevin Kissane

Animation

ThunderCats Episode #8 – “Tower of Traps” (IMDB: 7.5)

Jan 12, 2026

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #8 – “Tower of Traps” (IMDB: 7.5)

John Kramer would be proud

Kevin Kissane

video games

Insert Coin, Exit Cinema: A Post-Mortem of Video Game Movies #1 - Street Fighter II The Animated Movie (1994)

Jan 9, 2026

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4 min read

Insert Coin, Exit Cinema: A Post-Mortem of Video Game Movies #1 - Street Fighter II The Animated Movie (1994)

The Hadouken of the pack

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Dec 12, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #93 - Parodius (86%, Issue 5)

When the joke is better than the genre

Kevin Kissane

Animation

ThunderCats Episode #7 – “Trouble With Time” (IMDB: 7.6)

Dec 3, 2025

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #7 – “Trouble With Time” (IMDB: 7.6)

From joyriding, to the frailty of age

Kevin Kissane

videogames

Life in the Vault: A Long Look Back at Fallout Shelter

Nov 25, 2025

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4 min read

Life in the Vault: A Long Look Back at Fallout Shelter

Ten years of apocalyptic absurdities

Kevin Kissane

japan

Nov 18, 2025

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3 min read

TV Review: Tokyo Vice Season 2

Still in the city of no murders

Kevin Kissane

capcom

DmC: Devil May Cry: How It Became A Martyr to Its Own Fandom

Nov 14, 2025

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3 min read

DmC: Devil May Cry: How It Became A Martyr to Its Own Fandom

12 years on and hell has still never been this stylish

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Nov 12, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - The Lost Vikings

“The main problem is frustration”

Kevin Kissane

Animation

ThunderCats Episode #6 – “The Terror of Hammerhand” (IMDB: 7.0)

Nov 4, 2025

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #6 – “The Terror of Hammerhand” (IMDB: 7.0)

A small slip in a mighty cat’s leap

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Oct 23, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #94 - The Lost Vikings (84%, Issue 8)

“There’s nothing here that couldn’t be done on a lesser machine like the Mega Drive or Amiga”

Kevin Kissane

Super Play

Oct 10, 2025

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Donkey Kong Country

“Above anything else it is necessary to point out that you must own Donkey Kong Country”

Kevin Kissane

Animation

ThunderCats Episode #5 – “Pumm-Ra” (IMDB: 7.6)

Oct 2, 2025

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2 min read

ThunderCats Episode #5 – “Pumm-Ra” (IMDB: 7.6)

Mummy in disguise is more than meets the eye

Kevin Kissane

Animation

ThunderCats Episode #4 – “The Slaves of Castle Plun-Darr” (IMDB: 7.1)

Sep 22, 2025

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3 min read

ThunderCats Episode #4 – “The Slaves of Castle Plun-Darr” (IMDB: 7.1)

First the world building, now its castle building. With lessons on slavery and gratitude

Kevin Kissane