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Blood Money Review: A Flaming Trainwreck Of Gun Fights And Wire-Fu
CHOO CHOO HERE COMES THE GARBAGE TRAIN
Kelly and I were about seven hours into XLRatr Media’s new film Blood Money (on their “Turbo” vanity marque, no less) when I picked up the box and realized the film was only 108 minutes long. I suffered through all 108 of them and I still couldn’t tell you anything about the plot or much of anything that occurred of any substance. A hazy mess of cheap After Effects compositions, gun fights, and genuinely ugly and unlikable protagonists, Blood Money is exactly where your money doesn’t need to go.
V/H/S Review: A Mystery Box Of Scares
The movie could’ve used a deeper cut-, uh, edit.
V/H/S is a pleasant surprise. In this futuristic world we live in, it makes sense that more and more of us are capturing even the most pointless stories of our lives on video. Of course, unlike this futuristic world we live in, I’m not sure which poor soul still records with VHS, or has the patience to convert a bunch of this violent footage to VHS for home viewing. Well, a gang of violent profiteers (who are about to step up to ‘upskirts’ on the enterprising scale) know who: the old dead guy in the house they’re trying to steal a specific tape from. It’s in this frame story that we’re presented an anthology of assorted, scary found-footage tales, which both serves and penalizes the film.
From The Forums… N’s Thoughts On The PlanetSide 2 Beta
Infantry in all its top-down glory!
The above picture isn’t PlanetSide 2, but it was a game made by Sony Online Entertainment and released in 1999, not long after the original EverQuest hit shelves. It was a top-down 2D shooter with modes like capture the flag and team deathmatch locked into specially designed maps. My favorite mode, and the one I played almost exclusively, was a ‘capture the points’ mode in which teams started in drop ships on opposite ends of a very wide map.
I’m Going To PAX Australia, Who’s Coming With Me?
I can’t confirm that PAX AUS will be a Sydney joint, but I probably just did.
Although it was almost entirely in passing, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, the brain trust behind Penny Arcade, announced that their long-sought international PAX, or Penny Arcade Expo, would take place in Australia. No host city or date was dropped, but as much as the fellows of Perth love their town, I imagine (relatively wealthy) gamers as well as native Australians will flock to Sydney in droves come 2014. Or maybe Melbourne. Or Adelaide.
City of Heroes To End Later This Year, Billing To Stop Immediately
There just weren’t enough Heroes to save the City.
Just over a year after going free to play, NCSoft has announced that they are closing City of Heroes down. Created by Cryptic Studios and launched in 2004, the game put the Korean MMO publisher on the map as far as American audiences were concerned (their Lineage games were pretty big overseas, but never caught on here).
My Friend’s Sister Is Missing. Let’s Find Crystal Morrison Prentice.
Crystal Morrison Prentice was last seen leaving her work a week ago. She hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
During my time at Best Buy, I was acquainted with a wonderful General Manager out of South Carolina named Mechelle Morrison. We’ve never met in person, but we’ve known each other on Facebook for several years and she’s a wonderful woman. On August 24th, she reported that her sister, Crystal Morrison Prentice, had gone missing the day before between 12:30 and 1:00pm after leaving her work at Connextions Recruiting in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
Star Wars: Detours Looks Dumb And Stupid And I Want To Watch All Of It
Anyone else remember that Star Wars: Lo Mein Flash cartoon? Exactly what this reminds me of.
I love Star Wars. I enjoy Robot Chicken. So I don’t understand why these things can’t exist in perfect harmony. Not far removed from Seth Green and Matt Senreich’s stop-motion comedy show is a new series produced by Lucasfilm called Star Wars: Detours that provides all of Robot Chicken’s quirk in a thoroughly-researched Star Wars setting. I want it. All of it.
Samsung’s New Galaxy Camera (Might) Blow My Mind
Is it a camera or a phone or a portable media player? Yes.
There was a time, right around when I bought my first smartphone (a Palm Pre, of course) that I was kinda dying for a really small, dedicated camera. The Pre did decently in daylight, but I wanted a more powerful camera solution that didn’t have a three megapixel sensor, an optical zoom instead of just a crunchy-looking digital zoom, and the ability to easily transmit those images. None of my phones in the past three years have done this successfully, but Samsung has a decent idea: marry a phone to a camera in a solution that makes Sony’s dysfunctional organization green with envy. But there are going to be some downsides.
Assassin’s Bullet Review: Christian Slater Is All You Need
Waking Up Captain Sulu to Pistol Model: The Life Of Christian Slater
Despite what the cover would have you believe, American actors Christian Slater and Donald Sutherland are actually secondary characters in this film about a Neo-themed assassin. Look, I’m just going to spoil the whole thing for you: the story is really about the split personalities of said assassin, who is at other times a belly dancer and still others a fragile English teacher. The title also doesn’t pay credit to the premise either. The original marque, Sofia, was ditched to, I guess, appeal to us Westerners who need their Daily Dose of Slater-Sutherland, but it doesn’t really pay much tribute to the premise of the film. I only say this up front because Assassin’s Bullet isn’t a bad movie at all, it’s just not a good one. It just hovers there.
The Newsroom, First Season Review: Needs More Fair, Balanced
I was tempted to crop this shot to just Allison Pill, but decided against it. Only at the last minute, though.
24-hour news networks are evil at their core. For my part, I was glued to MSNBC throughout Clinton’s last years through the Lewinsky scandal, the shootings at Columbine, and concluding with Y2K. What happens when you don’t have content? You have to fill that space somehow. Aaron Sorkin, no stranger to behind-the-scenes affairs, and scribe of Facebook ‘show-all’ The Social Network, wants to bring the back end of this kind of news show to light with episodes set to recent events. Here, we witness the transformation of Jeff Daniels’ anchor/producer Will McAvoy and the team that supports him. So does it work?
