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April 2019 saw the release of Anno 1800, the seventh addition to the Anno series. Let’s get to our Anno 1800 review. Quickly, this title picked up positive reviews and actually became the fastest-selling Anno game ever released. While the PC RTS rarely sees the love and hype that it used to, Anno 1800 seems […]

Steve Sterlacchini and Steve Green worked together in various creative roles on Judge Minty, a 2000 AD fan short. The pair followed up their working relationship by collaborating on Search/Destroy: A Strontium Dog Fan Film, a few years later. Both shorts found their audience almost immediately, with big supporters in on the Hollywood scene more […]

Jon from Jon Breaks Bad News is an American man in his late 20s who is tasked with breaking bad news to unsuspecting people. His Facebook page currently has over 60 thousand followers, all watching eagerly as he breaks the news with a dishevelled beard and the bluntest of approaches. Via email, we talked about […]

Ethan Aguilar is the main creator of the Facebook phenomenon STORM AREA 51 group. At the time of writing, the page stands at 13 thousand fans. Hysteria around the event gained so much coverage even the US government has released a statement addressing it. Before he can get his filthy human hands on a fresh […]

Having been in the filmmaking industry since the early 90s, Teo Smoot has seen a lot of what goes on in Hollywood. Via email, we talked about his infamous whip scene from Starship Troopers, (sort of) working with Pamela Anderson and even a bit of nude sun bathing… As expected, Teo’s a really cool guy […]

Ctrl Shift Face is a creator on Youtube, recently finding viral fame through his videos of actors faces mapped against others to make it appear as if they are someone else – their most current work shows us what it would be like if Jim Carrey had starred in The Shining. But this isn’t just […]

HBO’s latest sleeper-hit, Chernobyl, has taken on a life of its own.  Currently sporting a 9.5 rating on IMDB, it’s being touted as one of the best TV series ever made. An emotional rollercoaster from start to finish, the series ends with what can only be described as an epic information dump about what happened […]

Via Skype, FinalBoss talked to director David Walton Smith from his home in Charleston. With a five hour gap between us, David came off as open and frank about his work; the industry as a whole, and was refreshingly down to Earth as he spoke with a voice that jumped between an American accent occasionally […]

Apex Legends finally has new content! This comes in the form of new hop-ups, map changes and a whole slew of weapon and character changes, breathing new life into the meta of the game. Below are all the changes for your convenience! Weapons New Airdrop Weapon: L-STAR EMG [ watch it in action here ] This can […]

If there’s one thing that the majority of Game of Thrones fans seem to agree on, it’s that the final series did not live up to their expectations. It’s no surprise that such an invested fandom, which has spent nearly 10 years with these characters, has strong opinions about the end of the epic series. […]

EDIT: Since publishing this post, Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, talking at Comic Con 2019 has come out and confirmed that a second Simpsons movie will happen… eventually! Let me start this off by saying that this definitely is not happening. But instead that you, dear reader, should treat this post as a “What […]

HBO and Sky’s five-episode series, “Chernobyl”, has been a grim treat. Painting the 1980s catastrophe as a fictionalised real-life horror series, both putting a spotlight on the victims but in an accessible and perversely watchable eye line, and in turn bringing a whole new sense of how we use the term “EVENT” to describe a […]

We constantly reminisce about our childhood memories; the life-changing experiences with our family and friends that will always be embedded in our minds. For the modern individual, with many of us being introduced to the gaming world from a young age, video games now play a big part in this. Think back to the ‘good […]

SPOILERS FOR GAME OF THRONES SEASON 8 AHEAD Like many Game of Thrones fans, I viewed the final episodes of Season 8 with a growing sense of dread. As a diehard Dany fan, I watched in horror as she burned King’s Landing and its citizens to the ground, shocking her closest advisors and ultimately prompting […]

Game of Thrones is over sob and while some fans feel that the ending was too random, others say that it was foreshadowed from the start. Whether you agree with how the show finished or not, here are five times Game of Thrones hinted at how the show would end, starting way back in Season […]

This weekend Disney’s Live Action remake of Aladdin opened in cinemas across the UK. FinalBoss journeyed back to the bustling streets of Agrabah to see whether Will Smith’s Genie was as fresh and princely as we were expecting and if Guy Ritchie could resist giving everyone cockney accents. While Ritchie, Smith and the principal actors […]

Via email we got in touch with Last Exit to Nowhere’s Director and Founder, Mike Ford. Last Exit to Nowhere are a clothing based site from the UK, who make it their aim to dive in to the deepest of pop culture so that you can wear it. Their site reads: “We collaborate to create […]

Game of Thrones will go down in history for many reasons. It will go down for being one of the most shocking and enthralling television shows ever to make it to air. It will go down as being a series that defined a generation and brought fantasy back into the mainstream. It will also go […]

Raul Lezcano is an actor and writer and the frontman of Youtube channel “Monkey And Apple” – the channel comprises mostly of sketches and spoofs heavy on pop culture and the superhero world. His The Dark Knight spoof currently has over 21 million views online. FinalBoss talked with Raul about his career via email. FinalBoss: […]

Via email, FinalBoss reached out to Noah Baron; an actor living in California who made his way up the ladder through video spoofs and skits on Youtube. His channel currently boasts an impressive twenty-five thousand subscribers. Through our back and forth, Noah talked about humble beginnings, fall outs and Hollywood success. FinalBoss: I remember I first […]

It is upon us ladies, gentlemen and non-binary persons of the world: the end of it all. The Endgame, if you will. 2019 has brought with it, and promises to still bring with it, some incredible examples of TV and cinema. But, as things start to wind down, and the year rolls as it inevitably […]

While FinalBoss sits in The Watershed Cinema bar in Bristol, just overlooking the river, surrounded by other patrons all seemingly working away on something creative – having a drink, as they prepare to see the next showing, my interviewee is nowhere to be seen. After thirty five minutes of waiting I receive a phone call […]

Apex Legends recently saw a slew of major changes following the 1.1.1 patch update. While the game is still in its infancy, it hasn’t stopped developers Respawn making some fairly significant tweaks to how important aspects of the Apex Legends play. It should be noted at this point, that the studio has stated they will […]

At FinalBoss, we’re known for our quirky survival guides. Well, I say known… I’ve written a handful. Usually, these are on-the-nose, humorous pieces, like the most recent one about surviving Avengers Endgame. However, we’re here today with what might be construed (dangerously) as an actual purpose. We’re here to look at how to survive in […]