“Guardians of the Galaxy” is a Xanatos Gambit for Marvel Studios. Continue reading
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Scenes Through A YouTube Window: The Absolute Best Thing about DC Universe Online Was…
Blur once again brings the cinematic goods. Continue reading
Dear Valve: I Didn’t Know You Were In The Movie Biz
Valve and Apple appear to be converging on the same target – your living room. They both want to control it, which means controlling the television set. And Valve has to know that games alone aren’t going to be enough to control the TV. Continue reading
Ruminations: The Dark Knight Rises
“The Dark Knights Rises” will get a lot of “it was good, but…” style reviews. Due to what it is, the film came burdened with a lot of expectations and not all of those could be met. This shouldn’t overshadow that it is a good movie, a 5 out of 5 stars within the superhero / comic book film pantheon. Continue reading
Taking Back Some of The Nice Things I Said About The Zune Marketplace
So, I recently said that the Zune Marketplace was a nice surprise and was the video on-demand streaming service that I would be using going forward. However, then this weekend I want to see “Captain America” ahead of seeing a certain related movie on the big screen… only to find that the only option available … Continue reading
Point / Counterpoint: Sexual Stereotyping and Android Demonstration Videos
VG24/7 (thanks to Good Games Writing for highlighting it) an article about sexism in video games / video games ‘journalism‘, with the key point being that although it goes on, both developers and writers have the ability to reduce latent sexism by not focusing on the obvious T&A presented to them. All it takes for … Continue reading
Some Rare Kind Words about Zune
I can’t actually ever remember anyone outside of Microsoft saying anything nice about Zune. People aren’t always unkind, but most comments are in the polite-without-being-rude area of “but you can do so much better”. Which is why it feels odd to say something nice about Zune, especially when I’m going to say they have the … Continue reading
Why Marvel Studios Needs to Pay Up
I like superhero films. As such, I definitely appreciate that the genre is going through a good patch where budgets allow for some pretty impressive representations of what happens on the page. A sign of this change in focus has been the creation of Marvel Studios – for years Marvel was content to sell their … Continue reading
James Cameron Will Shed No Tears Over Me
I saw “Avatar” a while back. On one hand, it is a beautiful film and one where someone has tried (and mostly succeeded) in creating another world. Ironically, the largest area where the world falls down is among the human environment, which leads into… On the other hand, “Avatar” has some incredibly ordinary work on … Continue reading
Trivial Things I Hope Don’t Happen In 2010
Star Trek Online launches too early. I know I’m going to be disappointed here. Cryptic Studios announces another title in development. Seriously, work with the ones you’ve got for 12 months. The “Barbarella” remake happens. Dear me, but I HATE that movie so much. “Iron Man 2” isn’t as good as the first one. It … Continue reading
World Class Villains 