Seriously. It’s like the guy’s operating on some kind of weird mental block that keeps him from understanding that he’s a convicted tax evader. Because not only is he miraculously still out on bail whilst his lawyers appeal his case, he’s appearing before the judge that sentenced him to–get this–be allowed to leave the country to finish filming two movies.
Apparently, he’s still in the midst of filming Gallowwalker in London, and Chasing the Dragon in Bangkok, and this whole tax evasion thing is getting in the way! Of course, Snipes has a decent point–if he can finish filming these two titles, he’ll have more than enough cash to pay off the IRS, and isn’t that what they’re after in the first place? But, of course, justice isn’t always simple or reasonable, and thus, the IRS wants their own.
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Jigsaw is dead, but his legacy lives on.
That’s the idea behind the recently released Saw V one-sheet, which portrays a swarthy man - presumably (SPOILER!) Detective Hoffman (end SPOILER!) - wearing Jigsaw’s face. Like most of the Saw one-sheets, it sounds ridiculous on paper, but the execution is almost…beautiful. In a “dude wearing another dude’s face” kind of way.
I admit it - I’m a sucker for art.
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Boy, I didn’t see that coming.
All the Blizzard sites were running a spash screen with ice, runes and glowing eyes. I figured it had to do with the new death knight class in World of Warcraft, who have glowing eyes and cast ice spells with runes. Nope.
Blizzard is putting out a third installment in their hugely successful Diablo series, the last installment of which came eight years ago.
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Now, it probably doesn’t surprise you much that some Hindu groups are downright outraged over the existence of Mike Myers’ The Love Guru. Frankly, that’s not hard to swallow. But what may surprise you only slightly more is that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has also thrown their strongest censure against the new Myers stinkbomb. Same with pretty much every critic in America, by the look of it.
Looks like Myers and company are going to have to come crawling to “Easy” Earl Dittman if they want a good quote for their box art. Strangely, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops seems to be rather…well…limp-wristed when it comes to issuing their strongest censure, dragging out choice lines like “vulgar and tasteless”, not to mention that it “wallows in endless penis jokes and fairly yucky potty humor.” Yucky potty humor? Who’s writing your copy, Mrs. Johnson’s first grade class down at Milquetoast Street Elementary? Seriously, if you’re going to lay into a film and give if your worst rating–for some reason theirs is apparently the letter O–give it some VENOM! Try “constant assault on basic human decency”! Try “utterly lacking in redeeming features”! Try throwing the word “ruination” or even bust out “hellbound”. You guys can do better than a seven year old’s linguistic shuffle and “yucky potty humor”! And it’s not even just the Catholics–the Jews are also throwing their lines in and they’re landing right upside The Love Guru’s head: Read more…
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Neil Patrick Harris might have starred in an annoying and improbable sitcom back in the day, but lately he’s devoted himself to slightly more interesting and unpredictable roles. At thirty-five, he’s parodied himself in both Harold & Kumar films and gained a whole new fanbase through his work on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother.
Now, he’s about to star in something entirely new.
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The death of the PC as a gaming platform gets predicted every year. Soon we’ll all be gaming on consoles in our living rooms.
So, how do PC developers see it?
One opinion comes from Cevat Yerli of Crytek, developers of Far Cry and Crysis. (Yes, they have a theme going.)
The other critique outside Crytek was the fact that the PC industry is really, at the moment, I would say the most intensely pirated market ever. It’s crazy how the ratio between sales to piracy is probably 1 to 15 to 1 to 20 right now. For one sale there are 15 to 20 pirates and pirate versions, and that’s a big shame for the PC industry. I hope with Warhead I hope we improve the situation, but at the same time it may have an impact on [our] PC exclusivity in the future.
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Anyone who’s bought a few TV series on DVD has probably experienced this at some point. You’re watching a montage, or a scene with a radio playing, and something seems a little off. It might take you a minute - less, if you liked the song.
It’s different.
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Platinum Studios has announced some new projects to be published by Sega. The people behind Platinum once formed Capcom’s sudio Clover, best known as the creators of the critically-acclaimed Okami and lesser known as the creators of the not-critically-acclaimed-but-still-pretty-great God Hand.
The game that seems to be getting the most attention is Madworld, which is by turns stylish, trashy and violent. The most noticible feature of the Wii-exclusive game is how it’s rendered in stark black and white, with splashes of red for blood.
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I want to know. Really. So I can find them and pitch them, because clearly, they are more desperate for projects than even Vijay, the World’s Most Desperate Venture Capitalist from the Dilbert strips.
Of course, I dislike Rob Zombie’s music. Each song sounds very much like the one that preceded it, and each song sounds exactly like the same thing–a rest home choir in mid-song having a huge simultaneous stroke and then sped up and set to death metal guitar. The sheer, loud, mushmouthed incomprehensibility of it all is utterly beyond me.
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Getting your World of Warcraft account stolen is pretty awful.
Someone plants a keylogger on your computer and susses out your password. Sure, you’re going to get all your in-game stuff stolen, that’s a given. Next time you log in, your character is going to be standing around in his skivvies.
But say your character has access to a guild bank. Well, then you just let some guy loot the fruits of countless hours of labor of all your friends. Things get uncomfortable.
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