An odd little Flash game for computers, Homerun in Berzerk Land features you playing as various characters and getting the chance to smack a geek off the edge of cliff to see just how far you can get him to… Read More ›
Month: December 2010
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Tomb Raids onto the iPhone (But it’s Kind of Like Looting a Corpse)
With some games I find myself either really enjoying the title or greatly disliking it without being able to put my finger on exactly why I feel as I do. More often than not, this difficulty arises with a game… Read More ›
Altered Beast and the Evils of Nostalgia
It is a sad truth that not every game needs to be ported to every system, particularly when the game doesn’t have anything other than the nostalgia factor going for it. Back in the day, I popped many a quarter… Read More ›
Rush Hour Gets Blu
The buddy cop flick isn’t exactly a new sub-genre of film in 2010. Throw a grizzled, tough-as-nails veteran in the same squad car as a wide-eyed rookie, add some laughs and a criminal plot, and you have yourself a film. … Read More ›
The 7th Guest and Henry Stauf Return
Ah, memories. There are moments in my life which I remember quite clearly, things which can instantly be recalled – I know the first Star Trek episode I ever saw, the first James Bond movie I watched, where I was… Read More ›
Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time – Well, It’s no Cliffs of Insanity
It would make me exceedingly happy to be able to sit down and write that the new Doctor Who iPhone game, Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time, was a brilliant digital transition for our beloved Time Lord. It is not. … Read More ›
Salt (2010) Hits Blu-ray, but Lacks Flavor
The tagline for the 2010 movie Salt, upon its initial release to theaters this past summer, was “Who is Salt?” While the short answer to that question is a character played by Angelina Jolie in this spy thriller, it may… Read More ›
If can Find it, Maybe you Should buy The A-Team
We have all seen a myriad of absolutely wretched TV show remakes hit the big screen. There are unquestionably moments when just seeing a trailer for the latest remake is enough to make you cringe. Hearing about a some of… Read More ›
The Plumber’s Still got it: Super Mario All-Stars – Limited Edition
There are some games which are legends, untouchable bits of greatness. These are the games which, no matter how many times they may get rereleased to new systems, made playable as DLC, updated, tweaked, etc. you just know that you’re… Read More ›
Despicable Me – It’s Gru to be Bad
For years Hollywood has been making live action movies about villains, and this summer saw animated features take up that some motif in two different films, Megamind and Despicable Me. The latter of these two films has just been released… Read More ›
Calling Shenanigans on Micmacs (But in a Good Way)
Translating the title of his movie in one of the bonus features on the new Blu-ray release, Jean-Pierre Jeunet states that Micmacs means “shenanigans.” That is a brilliant description of this film which stars Dany Boon as the new guy… Read More ›
Leverage Reaches the End of Season Three
The mechanics of scheduling a single television series much less an entire network are foreign to me. There is a multitude of things that have to be figured out, from how many episodes each series has in a season to… Read More ›
EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp Gets us on the (Practice) Field
Training-based sports titles are becoming more and more prevalent in this generation of consoles. The Nintendo Wii made such things easy to start with, and then upped the ante with the balance board. Now, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 feature… Read More ›
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz – It’s Almost Like Knight and Day
Tom Cruise has starred in both comedies and action flicks, and his latest movie, Knight and Day, is a very successful mix of the two. Acting opposite Cruise in the film is Cameron Diaz, who, while she may be better… Read More ›
The New Flesh Emerges on Blu-ray: Videodrome – The Criterion Collection
For a number of years, for a movie to simply be part of The Criterion Collection has been a glowing review in and of itself. Criterion has put out laserdiscs, DVDs, and Blu-rays of some of the best films ever… Read More ›
Bing! It’s The Crosby Christmas Sessions
Although stores may have Christmas things in stock right after Halloween, I don’t truly begin my Christmas preparations until Thanksgiving week – which, let’s face it, is still plenty early. I get ready for Christmas when I do mostly because… Read More ›
Amazing Cows by Sandra Boynton: Something for the Hippopotamus in all of us
Prior to my daughter being born, someone insisted that we purchase a copy of the Sandra Boynton’s book and CD, Philadelphia Chickens, an “imaginary musical revue.” Coming in a single package, Philadelphia Chickens features many distinctly odd songs, things like… Read More ›
Disney’s Tangled Swings Over to the Nintendo Wii
I am a big fan of the sort of puzzle games that LucasArts used to do and which Telltale does so well today. I grew up playing Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and… Read More ›
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