One of the complaints against Disney is that the films, books, television shows, etc., that they produce are all strictly low brow, that the company doesn’t have any ambitions to produce great works of art, merely commercially successful ones.  Perhaps… Read More ›

One of my favorite games of 2009, perhaps actually my favorite game of last year, is Assassin’s Creed II.  The story of Ezio Auditore da Firenze and his adventures in Italy during the Renaissance is a hugely compelling tale (much… Read More ›

Scooby Doo is different things to different people, embracing a large overall audience, and that is one of the reasons that the myriad versions of the cartoon have been so successful.  A young audience can be amused by the surface… Read More ›

Monopoly is an incredible game, a true, timeless leader in the board game genre.  The notion that Monopoly can be improved upon by making it a console, PC, or mobile game is just silly.   That’s not to say that it… Read More ›

How could a story about a bunch of misfit youths doing their best to save their families’ homes not wind up as an incredibly touching, potentially oversweet, film?  The notion of a bunch of outcasts fighting the good fight and… Read More ›

Through the years Julie Andrews has had an amazing career on the big screen (I’m not discounting her stage work, just not discussing it here).  From her first big screen starring role in Mary Poppins (for which she took home… Read More ›

Ken Hughes’ 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is undeniably a film much-loved by children of all ages.  With songs by the Sherman brothers, a screenplay based on an Ian Fleming novel, Dick Van Dyke in the starring role, Albert… Read More ›

Several weeks ago I sat down and wrote an article reviewing Earloomz Bluetooth headsets.  In the article I stated that “science will win out over art” and that while Earloomz puts out “attractive” looking headsets, anyone who wanted to actually… Read More ›