After my written reviews of the Yakuza Papers series, I’ve adapted them into a series of video reviews. Read more
Film Review: Captain America – Civil War
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
5 Things Wrong with the Civil War Comic Event And What Could Have Fixed Them
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
Anime Review: Megazone 23 – Part III
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
Movie Review: Megazone 23 – Part II (and a little Part I)
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.
Movie Review: When Eight Bells Toll
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.
Nintendo Power Retrospectives – Part 54
This time we’re covering Issue #38 for July of 1992, featuring a real game-changer.
Film Review: Dark City (1998)
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
Nintendo Power Retrospectives – Part 53
We return to Nintendo Power proper with Issue #37 for June of 1992.
Let’s Play Lost Planet 3: Part 17 – Ice Station Zebra
This time we start our exploration of another lost outpost.
Film Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
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
Book Review – The Silmarillion
This time I’ve got a book review of J.R.R. Tolkein’s classic work of fantasy mythology – the Silmarillion. Read more
Let’s Play Lost Planet 3: Part 16 – Swarm Missiles
This time I’ve got to fight another big ugly creature, but this fight goes a little more smoothly.
Let’s Play Lost Planet 3: Part 15 – Giant Enemy Crab
I had to make this joke some time.
Nintendo Power Retrospectives – Part 52
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.
Movie Review: The Yakuza Papers – Final Episode
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
Editorial – #WTFU
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
Let’s Play Lost Planet 3: Part 14 – Thank God That’s Over
We finally end that terrible, horrible, no good, very bad boss fight.
Book Review: How To Cook Everything – The Basics
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
Let’s Play Lost Planet 3: Part 13 – No, Really, I Hate This Boss Fight
This time the terrible, terrible boss fight continues.
Film Review – Deadpool
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
Nintendo Power Retrospectives – Part 51
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
Film Review: The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics
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
Let’s Play Lost Planet 3: Part 12 – I Hate This Boss Fight
This time we start the worst boss fight in the game thus far.