The Bourne Legacy Review: A Worthy Entry
If The Bourne Identity is really a movie about a man trying to discover who he really is, The Bourne Legacy is a movie about a man trying to escape who he really is. Jeremy Renner stars as Aaron Cross, a government agent who derives his nearly superhuman abilities from popping special, government-issued pills. Thanks to Jason Bourne’s antics from the previous movies, however, higher ups in the federal government have decided to destroy their experimental spy programs in anticipation of the coming media backlash. This causes the well of wonderful, gene-altering drugs to run dry, and leaves Cross running from shadowy government operatives who want him dead.
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The Campaign Review: “It’s a mess.”
Over the past thirteen years, the American political stage has been so completely fucked up that I’m not sure if what I’ve witnessed is real life or the horrible manifestation of one of the late Bill Hicks’ fever dreams. Anyone attempting to craft a clever comedy lampooning our electoral process should find a wealth of material to draw upon, and this political cycle is particularly ripe for a film containing some biting satire. The Campaign, a lazy, witless movie from the director of Meet the Fockers, is not that movie.
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Kalypso Media Announces Alien Spidy – A New Platformer With Bite
Flying saucers full of spiders? Yikes!
See what I did there? Kalypso Media dropped us a press release today, in which they showed us their upcoming platformer called Alien Spidy, a side-scrolling festival of 8 legged goodness which, to me, looks amazing!
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“Jane-Doe” Sought For Child Pornography
Have you seen this woman? If so, call the cops. NOW!
There exists, in this world, a lot of really horrible things and really horrible people. Some of the bad things I can think of are having your air conditioner go out in the middle of a heatwave, getting hit in the testicles with a 2 iron, cutting your finger while you’re slicing lemons and NBC’s coverage of the Olympics.
Some of the bad people I can think of are Osama Bin Laden, Josef Mengele, Ted Bundy and the person who plans Nintendo’s press briefings.
Of all of the bad people I can think of in the world, though, none of them strike me as being the kind of worthless, scandalous, in need of being found and arrested NOW, scumbag pictured above.
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Ghostbusters: Paranormal Blast Review (iOS)
I ain’t afraid of lookin’ like a fool. Yes I am.
Ghostbusters: Paranormal Blast takes busting ghosts to a whole new level. Thanks to the technological magic of augmented reality, fans of the coolest movie franchise can now trap actual free floating aparitions “virtually” anywhere.
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The Ocean’s 11/12/13 Trilogy Review – Some Clever Heists In A Pinch
They sure did bring in a ton of people, didn’t they?
One cool part about using the Nexus 7 to consume content, as it was intended to, is its easy access to super cheap video rentals almost every night. I took the opportunity to brush up on the Ocean’s 11 trilogy, which for the past decade had been Soderbergh’s “commercial” movies sandwiched between his quirky experiments like Bubble and The Good German. The Ocean’s films often received a brow-beating for their lavish use of their ensemble cast, including George Clooney and Brad Pitt as the ringleaders of the operation, as the cinematic equivalent of a celebrity circle-jerk, never minding that the original film featured Sinatra and the Rat Pack in virtually the same function. Thankfully, Soderbergh’s films were a bit more substantial than that.
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Facedeals Checks You In With Facial Recognition
Ad agency, Redpepper is testing out a facial recognition Facebook check-in system a a few businesses in Nashville. It’s really cool but also creepy at the same time. After being recognized at a supporting business you will receive the deal via text message as well as being checked into the location on your timeline. I have wanted a proximity check-in system for Foursquare for a while now. Read the rest of this article…
Curiosity Sending Back Color Photos, Panoramas Even!
Hey! Wait a minute, that’s not in color!
Patrick Stewart Boldy Goes On Facebook
See what I did there with the title? I made a Star Trek joke that clearly has never been played out. Interestingly enough though, Sir Patrick Stewart appeared on Facebook without any fanfare during the Olympics. He must have teleported. Read the rest of this article…
Why Penny Arcade’s Kickstarter Didn’t Work
The Kickstarter’s been an interesting adventure, but it’s obviously way short of their intended goals.
With only five days left, Penny Arcade’s Kickstarter experiment to ditch their ad model and free up their time to work on Penny Arcade content looks to be coming to a somber, underwhelming finale. Despite the webcomic empire’s popularity, the epic fanfare, and coverage by Forbes and Fortune (our site excluded out of modesty), it’s been passed up left and right by other Kickstarters for the crowd’s dollar and has spent most of the month-long campaign barely matching the contributions of its first few days. There’s still a great chance that it’ll ramp up at the last minute and they’ll still walk away with at least three quarters of a million dollars, but the lack of excitement around the fundraiser is crisp in the air. It’s clear from here that there just wasn’t enough planning in this venture to reward the company the full million dollars they dreamt of. So what went wrong?
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