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Josh Lasser is a freelance entertainment reporter/critic. His work has appeared in print, online, and perhaps one day in book form.
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GoldenEye 007 Comes Around Again
I distinctly remember the first time I saw GoldenEye 007 being played on an N64. It was in my sophomore year in college and while I had owned consoles when I was younger, I had not purchased the N64 for… Read More ›
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Takin’ it to the Monopoly Streets
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 ›
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James Bond 007: Blood Stone – I Really Want to Love it, But…
There are probably few reviewers out there who want the new James Bond game, Blood Stone, to be good as much as I want it to be good. I have been a fan of the character, the films, and the… Read More ›
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One Last Goonie Adventure: The Goonies Find Blu-ray Treasure
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 ›
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Fling and Smash in the new FlingSmash
Although the Wii has been highly touted for its motion-sensing abilities, the cold fact of the matter is that many out there – apparently even the developers of the system – feel like the included motion-sensing abilities simply don’t go… Read More ›
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Listening to (and Watching) The Sound of Music on Blu-ray
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 ›
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Learning Helpful Techniques for the Coming Zombie Apocalypse with Dead Rising 2
I have said it before and I am sure that I’ll say it again – at this point in time, the zombie apocalypse seems like a foregone conclusion. I don’t know when it will begin and I don’t pretend to… Read More ›
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Oh Chitty You Chitty Pretty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang You’re on Blu
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 ›
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Protecting a Nintendo DSi and a Child’s Happiness
For reasons too complicated, ridiculous, and potentially awesome to explain, my four-year-old daughter has a Nintendo DSi. And, so as not to mince words about it, she loves the thing. As with so many of her compatriots, she has grown… Read More ›
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Taking Another Look at the Earloomz Bluetooth Headset
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 ›
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Oliver Stone Heads South of the Border (2009)
I have no desire – particularly with an election quickly approaching – to enter into any sort of political discussion or debate and I do not intend to do so here. My discussion of this film will be about the… Read More ›
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Samurai II: Vengeance or why Reading Books gets you in Trouble
Fair warning before reading the rest of this review – I’m most of the way through reading Tom Bissell’s excellent (and highly recommended) book, Extra Lies: Why Video Games Matter. The book focuses itself on narrative videogames (that would be… Read More ›
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Spin Again with DJ Hero 2
With the massive success of rhythm games over the past few years, a charge led by the likes of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, it only makes sense that companies would look for a way to expand the genre. Enter… Read More ›
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Gotta Get Back in Time – Back to the Future on Blu-ray
For people of my generation it is virtually impossible to forget what happened at 1:15am on October 26, 1985 at the Twin Pines Mall in the town of Hill Valley. There are, in fact, few moments quite as momentous as… Read More ›
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2001’s Moulin Rouge! is Still Spectacular, Spectacular
For better or worse, some directors shoot for the stars. Their efforts may result in colossal misfires, but they could also result in a truly stellar experience. With 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann certainly ended up with the latter as… Read More ›
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RoboCop Trilogy – Blowing Things up on Blu-ray
Is it possible to compare a film that aims to educate viewers, to make them think about something in a new way, or to somehow change they way they perceive the world with a film whose goal is to do… Read More ›
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Earloomz Bluetooth Headset: So Pretty, so not Functional
editor’s note: an update to this piece can be found here. Science will win out over art. It’s become a favorite saying of mine over the past few years, not because I’m down on art, but because, more often than… Read More ›
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Stringer Bell Becomes Luther
What is it that makes a television series distinctly British? Is it the washed out colors? Is it the stark backgrounds? The haunting music? The almost minimalist sense of the sets? The perennially steel grey sky? It can’t be, because… Read More ›
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Looking for Character on Outsourced
So there I was watching Outsourced last night and you know what, I wasn’t amused. I know I haven’t written one of these columns for a while and I could delve into the funny (though slightly sloppy technically) 30 Rock… Read More ›
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Square Enix Shows us Tomorrow with Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Gun Loco and More
One of the excellent perks of my job – check that, let’s not call it a “perk” it’s definitely part of the job – is getting to see not yet finished videogames. When I’m lucky I get to play them… Read More ›
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