Here’s my Metro News Reviews for the week of January 6th
Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
By Guillermo Del Toro & Marc Zicree
Four Stars
While making movies Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) keeps imaginatively illustrated journals. Select pages are used here for a deep and fascinating discussion into his influences and obsessions with contributions by James Cameron, Tom Cruise, and Alfonso Cuarón. Thankfully as an eBook you can double-tap and zoom into the journals to explore their worlds in wonderfully intimate detail.
Ski Tracks
$0.99
Discover your speed and altitude on the slopes with this ski and snowboarding tracker that records your runs across detailed maps and graphs. Battery-friendly and accurate, it’s rewarding and insightful.
The Biscuit Baker
$1.99
Complement your dog’s diet with some homemade treats. These twenty-five recipes offer up biscuits flavoured with beef stew, chicken pie, and apple bacon. Check with your vet before you bake.
WhoSampled
$2.99
Scan your personal music library using this database of samples, cover tunes, and remixes to discover revealing and surprising connections between many songs. Then play-and-compare them to blow your mind.
Dead Rising 3
Xbox One
Rated: Mature 17+
Three Stars
Rockabilly car mechanic Nick Ramos’ solution to the zombie apocalypse is to grab household objects and vehicles and combine them to make ridiculously awesome weapons. With a mix of chainsaws, parasols, game consoles, and motorcycle engines he can build mechanical gloves, talking battle axes, and a dragon suit that lets him “fly” through the undead. Everyone left alive is entertainingly crazy, which makes rescuing them fun, but some serious glitches, counter-intuitive controls, and a confusing map means you’re often fighting the game’s technical ambitions instead of the surrounding zombie hordes.
