Edge of Sanity is an interesting, but flawed film, taking the Jack the Ripper case, and combining it with Robert Lewis Stephenson’s classic work of Victorian horror – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Read more
Where we turn the difficulty down to Easy so we can get through this bullcrap, and move on with the story. Read more
Just when I thought I was doing fine with the game’s levels, I find another level that’s like banging your head against a wall. Read more
Two months after my #WTFU Video, I give my thoughts on recent (as of 4/30/2016) developments on the YouTube-Fair Use front, and further actions to be taken to improve the state of Fair Use online. Read more
This time we’re covering Issue #39 for August of 1992, featuring another major title for the SNES.
This time we continue with “The Yakuza Papers” with Part 2 – “Proxy War” Read more
This time we continue with “The Yakuza Papers” with Part 2 – “Deadly Fight in Hiroshima” Read more
After my written reviews of the Yakuza Papers series, I’ve adapted them into a series of video reviews. Read more
Civil War, as a Comic Event, was something of a spectacular failure. I haven’t been good at doing video posts on my blog the past few weeks (something I’ll try to fix shortly), but this past week I did a video post on YouTube about Civil War, the comics, event, and how that could have been fixed.
The film version of Civil War has none of those problems. Instead, it’s one of the top films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date. There will be some minor spoilers in this review (below the cut if you’re reading this on my blog). Read more
In time for the release of Captain America: Civil War – I give my thoughts on my top 5 things that were wrong with the Civil War Marvel Comics event, and how they could have been fixed.
Music – “Little Lily Swing” – Tri-Tachyon
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
