As you (should) know, Bond 22, Quantum of Solace, is coming out this November 14th. In honor of this momentous occasion, I have decided to spend a little time each week digging into my Bond DVD collection and talking about the best and worst of the series up until now. I also like to compare the movies to the source material, when it exists. I find all of this very entertaining, but if you don’t, the scroll button is still right over there. >>>>>
Dr. No and From Russia With Love were both smash hits, but it was Goldfinger that really but James Bond on the cultural map. Everybody saw it. More than its predecessors, Goldfinger turned Bond from “quaint series of airplane novels” to “MASSIVE WORLDWIDE SENSATION.”
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Now, with a title like that, I had best deliver some truly EPIC celebrity dish, now hadn’t i? Oh, believe me, this one’s worth all the hyperbole in the dictionary, including that bit. And you know I got the goods–this one’s gonna make goth AND emo bois everywhere so emo that they’ll come right back around to happy!
Apparently, according to Hollywood Life, Winona Ryder has recently left her previous boyfriend, Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett, and the breakup was pretty hard on her. So hard on her, in fact, that she went completely bughouse loco and hooked up with–brace yourself–DREW BARRYMORE’S EX-HUSBAND!!
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I’m giving this one a qualified thumbs-up. Buy, with caveats.
I definitely wasn’t imagining things when I thought the screen was too busy to keep track of everything. Foreground elements, spell effects and even large enemies constantly block the action. It didn’t help that my first character, the green knight, caused identically colored effects to fill the screen with every spell he cast.
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Have you heard? Everybody’s favorite reality show, American Idol, has decided that three simply isn’t enough. The time-honored formula of Randy, Paula, and Simon is about to get shaken up by newcomer Kara DioGuardi.
Who?
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My position on this particular issue has been well-established for some time: I want Zack Snyder publicly flogged for the hash he made out of the George Romero masterwork Dawn of the Dead, and with good reason. Of course, this usually leads everyone to ask me just what my reasons are, so to take care of all of them in a nice and thorough fashion, I present a small essay summarizing my position on this.
To those who ask why I didn’t do this four years ago back when it came out, well, that’s fairly simple–I wasn’t writing this four years ago. So, problem solved, sorta.
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[DARK KNIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD, AS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT]
I have heard some really odd casting rumors for Christopher Nolan’s Batman 3. Thought he is obviously a long way off from even beginning to work on it, people are already scrambling to figure out what it’s all about. Will the Joker come back? Who is the next Big Bad? The Penguin? The Riddler? Poison Ivy? Man-Bat? What about Robin and Catwoman and Batgirl? Will there be a Superman crossover? WHAT IF WHAT IF WHAT IF?!
Speculations include:
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According to a blurb on Destructoid, Square-Enix says Nanashi no Geemu aka “The Game with No Name” is doing quite well in Japan. So well, in fact, that it’s selling out of stores.
The good news for us Yanks is that the game is “under consideration” for a Western release. (I’m not sure if that would imply a release for European regions as well.)
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Despite the fact that I, along with most Americans, are no longer allowed to set foot in Canada without showing reams of easily stolen identification materials–mostly by our own government’s decree–I now have a whole lot of reason to hate those dirty maple bastards.
Why, you may ask–why so much hate for the good, noble, and nice to a fault Canadian people who have never done the United States wrong and even put up with our snickering jokes about them and moose and mounties and whatnot?
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…in France.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie recently moved in a chateau in the south of France, and registered at the town hall. Which makes them eligible for benefits - quite a lot of benefits.
See, the way it works in France is that you get money if you have kids. Regardless of your income 
level, you get money. And because so many of the Jolie-Pitt kids are adopted, that brings the eligible benefits for the family up to almost $2,600 per month.
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If you’re like me, you’re sick of seeing the latest fashions modeled on people who don’t look like anyone you’ve ever met in your life.
It’s either a bunch of sullen, hard-muscled teenagers, or some woman with ridiculous ’80s hair, or “plus 
sized” women with perfect figures who never exceed a size 12. It’s always the same.
But the upscale U.K. department store Harvey Nichols has changed all that with their new models: Wallace and Gromit.
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