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 ›
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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 ›
Fantasia & Fantasia 2000 Explode Onto Blu-ray
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 ›
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol – The Trailer
While it is true that I’ve already done some Christmas shopping, now that Thanksgiving is here I feel that I can really get ready for the holiday season, a time of year which I enjoy to a great degree. There… Read More ›
Joining the Family Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
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 ›
The US Version of Top Gear has Arrived
To know me is to know my deep and unabashed love of Top Gear. Since I first discovered it several years ago, I have watched every episode BBC America has made available, I have read up on it, and I… Read More ›
Scooby Doo 1 & 2 Both on Blu
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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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