TV Review: Entourage – The Final Season
To quote the editor-in-chief of The Verge:
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…and, well, it’s true. After eight years, the Mark Wahlberg-produced HBO show about up and coming actor Vincent Chase (Adrien Grenier) and his titular homies has now rolled to a conclusion. Or stumbled. Or flattened. We’ve certainly seen a lot of drama over the years (as well as Vince’s brother Johnny Drama), agency swaps, the rise and fall (and subsequent rise and fall) of superstar agent Ari Gold, lots and lots of phone calls, and more than a few fictional movies, and a borderline Simpsons quantity of celebrity appearances, but this last season of Entourage was hardly the best way to send the show out.
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Andy Whitfield – Spartacus – Has Died
I’m not going to go into details, mostly because I’m not in the mood for the macabre, but it has been confirmed that Andy Whitfield has passed away.
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9-11-01 – Ten Years Later
So…Here were are…The tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Funny, that…Any time you ask about what happened on 9-11-01, people always say “Terrorists blew up the World Trade Center” or “The World Trade Center got attacked by terrorists flying planes”. Even if you do a search on Google, you come up with top results like “Terrorist Attack: World Trade Center on September 11”.
There’s almost no mention of the attack on the Pentagon or United Airlines flight 93, which went down in Pennsylvania.
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Nick Reviews Whiskey Media’s Big Live Live Show Live! The Second One!
It’s been a year since the Whiskey Media family of sites (Giant Bomb, Tested, Screened, Comic Vine, Anime Vice) went with premium plans to start driving revenue since they had passed on advertising to that point. Blowing out the announcement was their inaugural Big Live Live Show Live!, an eight-hour, telethon-formatted web show. Despite a few technical gaffes and some content that just wasn’t appealing, Whiskey set off to show that their programming is prime cut across their various properties. Since then, the company has committed to weekly ‘Happy Hours’ that have served as smaller editions, but I honestly couldn’t find two hours a week for their video programming. Now a year later, how does the BLLSL’s sequel hold up?
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Half An Hour of Dead Island Co-op!
Nick and Kelly just got into some zombie smashing with the latest and greatest from Poland! Check out its co-op action right after the break!
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Let’s Talk About Survivor – The Most Inaccurate Show Title EVER?! I Think So!
In 5 days, the mega-hit television series “Survivor” will start its 23rd season, in the South Pacific – Specifically, in Upolu, Samoa.
I watched the first season of Survivor and about half of the second season before I became so disgusted with the show that I couldn’t bear to watch it any longer. I got a wild hair and started checking out one of the more recent seasons and it’s even more frustrating than the earlier ones.
Read after the break to find out why.
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Retailers Are Ruining Video Games
So tonight, Kelly informed me that he was interested in the new open world, zombie-a-thon game Dead Island, but only if he had someone to play co-op with. I offered, right there and then, to pick the game up if we dropped by Best Buy. We talked about how janky the game had been revealed to be in recent reviews and with a 74% GameRankings score, we figured we could probably overlook a lot of the game’s flaws if it had a decent cooperative mode. So we arrived.
And they were sold out.
And so was everyone else.
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Game Review – My Country for Facebook and Android
The people from Game Insight – the company who brought us Paradise Island – dropped me an email several weeks ago and told me they were getting ready to release a new game and asked if I would review it for them. I agreed and, after a couple of weeks, they sent me a link to the game, along with a nice press release for our site, so I could download it and install it on my Android for review as well as publicizing the title for them.
I’m only just getting around to reviewing it, for a couple of reasons.
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How Do You Even Fix Yahoo?
Don’t you remember when Yahoo! was the shining knight in a sea of failed dot-com companies? Y’know, back when people thought it would be profitable to do everything through the internet, like grocery shopping? As a contemporary to the dial-up service providers like America Online, it served as a one-stop shop for basically anything. Wanted to know the weather? How your stocks were doing? Sports? Yahoo did it. But time has not been kind to Yahoo as today, the company’s board of directors ousted Carol Bartz, their latest CEO. Their previous chief exec and co-founder, Jerry Yang, was removed not long after turning down a lucrative buyout offer from Microsoft. The problem the company really faces however, is what their business is and what it needs to be, something Bartz couldn’t even explain.
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Movie Review: Red State
It seems easy… too easy. Red State, Kevin Smith’s horror opus, opens with three kids looking to score. Somehow the one with the curly hair convinces them all to go down on a chick he met on the internet in some glorious foursome with little more incentive than a faceless thumbnail on a tacky hookup site. It’s not long before they’re on their way to her trailer in the woods to get down when – bait and switch! – they wind up prisoners in a crazy church run by a fictionalized, militant version of Fred Phelps (y’know, the guy who runs the Westboro Baptist Church, the one that pickets soldiers’ funerals with ‘God Hates Fags’ signs? That one.). What begins as a colossal mess ends as one while writer/director Smith fumbles through a movie that doesn’t seem far removed from a fevered dream – not disturbing in any sense of terror, but at how awfully languid it is.
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