As the year winds down to an end, I find myself trying to squeeze in a bunch of films that I haven’t seen from the past year, all while rewatching some of the highlight films in order to compile a best of list (Be on the look out for those to start the first week […]
Read more "For Your Renting Pleasure"There must be something wrong with me. It usually takes me upwards of eight hours to write a short three page story based on my own life. Hans Fallada, on the other hand, wrote Every Man Dies Alone (a rather lengthy novel) in just 24 days, shortly after being released from a Nazi insane asylum.
Read more "Book Review: Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada"Let me first start by telling you how big of a Thrice fan I am. I listened to their debut single “The Artist In The Ambulance” on loop when it came out in 2003. Then I bought their next album, Vheissu, hoping that I would get more of that sound. And besides the opening track […]
Read more "Music Review: Thrice’s “Major/Minor”"Let me first start by telling you how big of a Thrice fan I am. I listened to their debut single “The Artist In The Ambulance” on loop when it came out in 2003. Then I bought their next album, Vheissu, hoping that I would get more of that sound. And besides the opening track […]
Read more "Music Review: Thrice's "Major/Minor""Despite his effeminate, childish looks, Link is actually older than me, as the screen full of 25th anniversary excellence will inform you when starting the game. Yet somehow he still manages to be far more active. Granted I have a really comfy couch, and am not the one destined to save the world. He can […]
Read more "Gaming Review: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword"War Horse is a beautiful and emotional look at war and the affect it has on just about everyone and everything around it.
Read more "Film Review: War Horse"I love zombie games, movies, shows, and literature. I really do. Me and my friends would go around the worlds and courses of Left 4 Dead for hours, blowing the heads off of countless zombie hordes, and then becoming the infected to punch people off of tall buildings to watch them plummet to their death. […]
Read more "Gaming Review: Dead Island"A few weeks have passed since my last compilation post of movie rentals, and I should be ashamed at my lack of movie watching, but I have still spent a large percentage of my time wisely! We’re talking playing The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on that stupid Wii and rewatching all three previous seasons […]
Read more "For Your Renting Pleasure"“Farewell Continental. God, I guess you can’t love everything. We love to be supportive of a lot of music, and it’s just not realistic that you’re gonna love everything, you know? I mean there’s a certain amount of crude that gets through. Sort of the cracks, it just sorta seeps in like a disease. 1996 […]
Read more "Music Review: Farewell Continental’s “¡Hey, Hey Pioneers!”"“Farewell Continental. God, I guess you can’t love everything. We love to be supportive of a lot of music, and it’s just not realistic that you’re gonna love everything, you know? I mean there’s a certain amount of crude that gets through. Sort of the cracks, it just sorta seeps in like a disease. 1996 […]
Read more "Music Review: Farewell Continental's "¡Hey, Hey Pioneers!""David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the definitive version of this internationally renowned source material, besting both the book and the Swedish film of the same name.
Read more "Film Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"The Adventures of Tintin is a wonderful action-adventure that allows director Steven Spielberg to unleash every action beat/camera move he has never been able to do with the freedom of motion capture.
Read more "Film Review: The Adventures of Tintin"Before going on to the review, I must warn a vast majority of you all that are interested in seeing David Fincher’s adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s book series The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. If you cannot handle any sort of ultra-violence, which includes pictures of brutal murders and a couple of scenes of rape […]
Read more "Film Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"Jason Reitman’s latest is another strong, yet lesser, effort from the young director and he gets a great performance out of his lead, Charlize Theron, who makes the most of Diablo Cody’s sharp screenplay.
Read more "Film Review: Young Adult"Brad Bird makes his live action debut with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and the results are 2/3 of a great action movie that makes up for its minor third act missteps in the finale.
Read more "Film Review: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a solid sequel, but doesn’t really advance the story or bring much new to the series.
Read more "Film Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows"Steve McQueen’s Shame features the best performance of the year in Michael Fassbender and might also be the best film of 2011 on top of that.
Read more "Film Review: Shame"The Artist is an interesting homage to the silent film era that shows the format can still entertain, but it doesn’t play with the format as much as it could; especially when it seems that it wants to.
Read more "Film Review: The Artist"I was trying to come up with a “picture this” experience to start this review to give you an idea of just how big the 4th installment of the Mission: Impossible series is, but everything is just dwarfed in comparison. It is that intense.
Read more "Film Review: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the English language debut for Tomas Alfredson and the result is a marvelously acted and meticulously directed and plotted spy film that will reward those who give themselves over to the plot as it unfolds its twists and turns.
Read more "Film Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"Though it is still debatable if Robert Downey Jr. or Wishbone makes a better Sherlock Holmes, the memorable quality of Downey’s performance two years ago as the classic detective will be impossible to forget. He made what I assumed to be a stodgy, pipe-smoking British guy eccentrically cool, something that I couldn’t help get enough […]
Read more "Film Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows"While discussing Young Adult after a screening a couple weeks ago, Alan and I realized that we didn’t quite see eye-to-eye on this one. Here are our (spoiler free) thoughts on this movie. Also be sure to check out Zac’s review as well to see where his opinion lines up with ours.
Read more "HST… Film Review: Young Adult"WARNING: This is a full-blown discussion of the book, so as such there will be spoilers throughout. Proceed with caution! If you would like to read a spoiler free review, follow this link!
Read more "Book Club In Session: Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse"Our last book club selection was Robopocalypse. If you have already read the book, definitely read the discussion between Lauren, Zach , and I. However, I wanted to give a spoiler-free review of the book for those of you who have not yet read it and are thinking about it.
Read more "Book Review: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson"I usually love reading books written by comedians. Even if they are telling what would ordinarily be a boring story, they often manage bring a witticism to it that allows the story to transcend its boring nature and become enjoyable. I was hoping from the same from Craig Ferguson, but was utterly disappointed. I probably […]
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Having Said That... 