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10.06.08 by Oblique Red @ 11:05 pm  
US Release Date: June 22, 2008 Concept The Guitar Hero juggernaut rolls to handhelds with this title for the Nintendo DS. Best Thing Ever, or are they milking the cash cow a leeeetle too hard? Sight and Sound I would like to give a detailed review of the graphics, but unfortunately I can't, because when I play a Guitar Hero game my eyes must remain unswervingly fixed on the scrolling note indicators lest chaos ensue. So as for the in-song graphics, I can tell you that the scrolling note indicators scroll smoothly and are easy to read. The few glimpses I caught of the performance animations out of the corners of my eye seemed fine - fairly standard for the GH games and the DS system. Nothing to write home about, but not disappointing either. Categorized as: Games and Reviews
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09.30.08 by Widge @ 10:11 pm  Film: Written by: Mark Fergus, Matt Holloway, Art Marcum & Hawk Ostby, based on characters created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Don Heck & Larry Lieber Features:
Released by: Marvel/Paramount My Advice: Own it. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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09.27.08 by Widge @ 3:18 pm  Film: Written by: The Brothers Wachowski, based on the series by Tatsuo Yoshida Features:
Released by: Warner Brothers My Advice: Rent it. Speed Racer (Hirsch) is the bright and upcoming race car driver of the Racer family. He's got so much racing in his blood, you would think he had been grown in a vat with the express purpose of putting the pedal to the metal and the thing to the floor. Of course, he's got something to prove, since he's racing in the shadow of his older and now deceased brother, Rex (Scott Porter). There's also the fact that Racer Motors is an indie race car company when everybody else is owned by supamegacorporations. So when Speed starts to rise a little too high and gets offered a deal by one of these supamegas, what is he going to do? And what if they don't like his answer? Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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09.26.08 by Siege @ 2:53 am  Written by: Paul W.S. Anderson, based on the screenplay by Robert Thorn and Charles B. Griffith Review: From video game to movie to another video game, to yet another movie which shamelessly begs to be made into a video game. It seems like a circuitous exercise in pointlessness, but this installment pays out. There is enough splode to keep even me sated, and it's even the creative kind of splode. Anyone can blow something up with grenades, but it takes an artist to do it with an ejector seat. Ian McShane steals the show for badassery, and the principal actors work well enough together so that you feel hatred seething from the screen, including the brilliant cinematography in a neck-snapping sequence. Hee. Time: 23 seconds Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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09.21.08 by Widge @ 3:51 am  Film: Written by: Stéphane Cabel & Christophe Gans Features:
Released by: Universal My Advice: Own it if you like the film. The French region of Gevaudan is getting its ass handed to it by a mysterious Beast. It's some sort of hideous monster that noms on people a bit and then leaves their corpses lying about. Into this chaos ride Grégoire de Fronsac (LeBihan) and his companion and brother Mani (Dacascos), ready to get to the bottom of the mystery. But there's plenty of mystery to go around. Everybody acts a little strange in town and to make things more clouded--at least as far as their mission goes--Fronsac hooks up with not just Marianne (Dequenne), the daughter of a local important family, but also Sylvia (Bellucci) a--sultry? Shall we say sultry?--sultry denizen of the local bordello. And, oh yeah, there's murders. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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