Megazone 23 – Part 3 is probably the most Cyberpunk part of the Megazone 23 series. The other installments had artificial intelligences and rebelling against the man. However, Part 3 has more hacking, human cybernetic augmentation, and dealing with human society’s relationship with the planet. It’s also the weakest part of the series. Read more
Megazone 23: Part II is a more violent film than its predecessor, but it does a good job of providing closure to the franchise – which is almost unfortunate because three years after this film came out we got part III.
When 8 Bells Toll is a film that really feels like it desperately wants to be a Bond film, but doesn’t even remotely feel one – instead feeling a more conventional mystery thriller.
This time we’re covering Issue #38 for July of 1992, featuring a real game-changer.
Dark City is a gloriously wonderful film, which pays homage to Film Noir from the ’40s and ’50s, German Expressionist film of the 1920s and ’30s, and (to a degree), psychic battle manga like Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira and Domu, along with the series Locke the Superman (which in turn inspired the first two works). Read more
We return to Nintendo Power proper with Issue #37 for June of 1992.
This time we start our exploration of another lost outpost.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, suffers the same array of problems that the Michael Bay directed Transformers films have suffered. The film takes emphasis away from the title characters of the film to put an increased focus on the human characters. To the film’s credit, it doesn’t clutter up the film with the samedegree of human characters as the Transformers film did, but those elements of the film distract from the main thrust of the narrative. Further, the rest of the film’s action is so cluttered and chaotic that it can’t compensate for the rest of the film’s weak points. Read more
This time I’ve got a book review of J.R.R. Tolkein’s classic work of fantasy mythology – the Silmarillion. Read more
This time I’ve got to fight another big ugly creature, but this fight goes a little more smoothly.
I had to make this joke some time.
This week we continue with the Best of the Rest of Nintendo Power’s fourth year, with part two of our run-through of SNES titles that didn’t get feature coverage in Nintendo Power.
It’s odd how much polish a film series can undergo over the course of two years. The first installment in the Yakuza Papers series of films came out in 1973. This film, the final installment in the tetralogy came out in 1974. Kinji Fukasaku was already an accomplished director when he made the first film, but over the course of two years he quickly came up with a very definitive style to this series. Read more
This time I’m striking when the iron is hot, and talking about my dealings with YouTube, ContentID, and what can be done to fix things – and what you can do to help. Yes, you. Read more
We finally end that terrible, horrible, no good, very bad boss fight.
This time I’m reviewing the second cookbook I’ve talked about thus far: How To Cook Everything – The Basics, by Mark Bittman. Read more
This time the terrible, terrible boss fight continues.
When I heard that a Deadpool movie was in production, as a fan of the comics I was pretty pumped. That said, a situation like that is almost a recipe for disappointment – Star Wars: The Phantom Menace really shows how much high expectations can lead to equally high disappointment. Fortunately, there was no disappointment to be found for me in this film. Read more
This week we continue with the Best of the Rest of Nintendo Power’s fourth year, with part one of our run-through of SNES titles that didn’t get feature coverage in Nintendo Power.
Due to restrictions on my YouTube channel, this episode has been split into two parts. Read more
The problem with getting into the later installments of the Yakuza Papers series of films is that by the later installments Kenji Fukasaku has gotten into a stylistic groove when it comes to what this series of films are – what they look like, what they sound like, and how their action is presented. Read more
This time we start the worst boss fight in the game thus far.
This time we discover this weird lost facility and try to figure out who built it.
There is one Bond film that, before today, I had not seen: The Spy Who Loved Me. I refer to official Bond films, as opposed to parodies like the ’60s Casino Royale, or knockoffs like Never Say Never Again (which I have seen), and spiritual ripoffs like Operation Double 007 (as seen on MST3K). Read more
Wherein we get around to placing another heat spike.
