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.
Due to the Copyright Strike putting a crimp in my Let’s Play, this time I’m doing a video review of Dragon Age II, with my thoughts on the game. Read more
This is a gorgeous, darkly beautiful work of film that’s probably the most surreal work that Oshii has made (helped by the fact that Yoshitaka Amano did much of the art for the film and co-wrote the story). It is the first film I’ve seen that I don’t feel qualified to analyze. Read more
TMNT is a film that has the heart that the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film had (and the other two sequels lacked), but it falls short in a few significant places. Read more
We expand the number of options we have for navigating environments this episode.
This week we continue with the Best of the Rest of Nintendo Power’s fourth year, with the 6 Game Boy titles that made the top 30 (or 20) but weren’t featured in the magazine. Read more
This time we get around to staking out a new heat… vein… thingie.
Another mission, another giant crab monster.
It’s rare when a game gives you an opportunity to make a timely David Bowie reference in the title.
This time I’m taking a look at the documentary, Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man. I was provided with a copy of this documentary at no cost for purpose of review from the film’s director at OryCon 2014. Read more
It’s been a while since I reviewed a martial arts film from Hong Kong, and even longer since I reviewed a film from Shaw Brothers. With Netflix including more and more of the Shaw Brothers filmography, now is as good a time as any to revisit the studio and their works. Read more
This episode we have the hardest fight I’ve encountered thus far.
Proxy War, along with the second film in the series, Hiroshima Deathmatch, are really where the Yakuza Papers series really kicks into high gear with showing the real nature of the Yakuza life. Where the sophomore film in the series introduced a new character, followed him through his induction into the yakuza, until his ultimate death, Proxy War returns us to following Bunta Sugawara’s character, Shozo Hirono, as factions within the old guard start playing the new generation of yakuza against each other, while Hirono himself tries to reconcile this current chain of events with the yakuza code of honor. Read more
You’d have thought that on the ice planet people would have realized that extreme cold causes things to freeze on the machinery, so maybe we should do something about that. Nope! Read more
This time we’re retreading some old ground to get some new Thermal Energy.
This week we start with the Best of the Rest of Nintendo Power’s fourth year, with the 6 NES titles that made the top 30 (or 20) but weren’t featured in the magazine. Read more
We’ve got a lot of stuff to fix on this planet.
This time I deal with all the crud that needs to be fixed on this planet.
I’m starting a new Let’s Play, as the Dragon Age II LP wasn’t really working for various reasons. I’m doing Lost Planet 3 because the game has a more conventional level structure, so it makes it easier to have more conventional chapter stops. Read more
This week I have another non-fiction book review, as I take a look at “Fire in The Valley”, a book about the history of the computer industry. Read more
This week I’m putting together a video with some speculation on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and how The Prophecy from the prequel trilogy might tie in to the film’s plot (if it comes up at all). This was recorded Thanksgiving Weekend, well before the film came out, as a little sealed envelope – if my predictions are right, then I’m a genius! If I’m wrong, I look like a moron! Either way, you win! Read more
