For years, you’ve enjoyed movies about my antics. At times, you’ve turned to your friends and bragged that you have a much better way of getting out of my traps. You think you’re worthy of life. You’re convinced that if this happened to you, you’d get the better of me.
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In Baldr Sky: Dive 1 - Lost Memory, players scoot a giant robot around an arena, moving in and out of melee range and attacking with a huge and customizable selection of weapons.
Baldr Sky’s polished gameplay wouldn’t be out of place in a Western game, but for one thing: The majority of the game is spent listening to spoken dialog and looking at static pictures of anime characters. It’s a blend of action and the visual novel genre that flourishes in Japan.
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I, for one, am sick and tired of everything everyone says anymore being prefaced by something about the economy. “Well, in this economy…” “With this current economic climate…” “Times are tough all around, and…” It’s like, thanks. For a minute there, I’d forgotten about the impending societal collapse. But I appreciate the reminder! Really!
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Here’s some interesting news by way of Wired and Yahoo. A study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience suggests that playing action games may improve visual acuity.
This would represent a stunning reversal over my mother, who always told me I would go blind.
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I wanted to write a hilarious and awesome April Fool’s day post for you all, until I realized that a) I had no good ideas, and b) there is already an actual film-related news item out there that sounds like a bad April Fool’s Day joke.. And no, I’m not talking about that Three Stooges thing, although that one blows my mind too. Harvey Milk as a Stooge? Really? But no, I’m talking about something a little more personal.
You see, when I was twelve years old, Sherlock Holmes was my god. I’d read all the stories multiple times and loved every bit of them. Years later, I, along with every other female on the planet, fell hard for Jude Law. Fast forward another few years, and I saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for the first time. That’s when I first fell for Robert Downey Jr.
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Madworld is an odd one, all right.
It bears more than a passing resemblance to Itchy and Scratchy from The Simpsons: Animated hyperviolence as a satire of the crass media culture, but also a convenient excuse to show someone getting their heart cut with a chainsaw.
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Like a fungus, except not.
There are some movies that just don’t quite hit you the first time around. You walk away feeling a little underwhelmed, maybe confused, not quite sure how to feel about the whole thing. About five days later you realize you can’t stop talking about it and you want to see it again. You’re looking up clips on YouTube and browsing discussion forums on IMDB. (A dangerous game, but you simply can’t help yourself.) It’s never the same experience for everyone, but I have a feeling I’m not the only one who had this experience with some of these movies. As always, please light up the comments section with contributions of your own.
Magnolia
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I wish I’d gone to the Game Developer’s Conference last week. I didn’t even know they had an expo space open to the public until it was wrapping up. I could have brought back some quality anecdotes like these.
- Goichi Suda (Killer 7, No More Heroes) asks Emil Pagliarulo if Bethesda Softworks would set an installment of the postnuclear Fallout series in Japan. Pagliarulo replies, “Well, what can we destroy in Japan?” to which Suda can only say “Wow…” after an awkward silence.
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Remember that episode of Family Guy when God decided to smite Peter for stealing his thunder? I seem to remember that Brian had absolutely no issue believing that 1) there was a God, and 2) he was pissed. Since then, despite the fact that God himself has made several appearances on the show - and not just in cutaway gags either, the guy seems to exist in Quahog - Brian has become a militant atheist.
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Apparently, Dean Winters isn’t working hard enough on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” so they brought Dennis Duffy back to “30 Rock.” Liz’s scummy yet somehow appealing ex-boyfriend has discovered that he’s a sex addict, and although Liz is skeptical, he is determined to apologize to all the women he has wronged by “ruining them for other men.” Liz brushes off his apology, but when she answers Jenna’s cell phone during a rehearsal, she is shocked to learn that Dennis got to her best friend too.
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