Bully Review: What’s Your Solution?
Every documentary needs to have a reason for existing. A documentary should shine a light on a prescient issue, offer a solution to an existing problem, or at the very least, tell a compelling story. Bully doesn’t really do any of these things. At best it’s a well-intentioned picture that anecdotally looks at the issue of school bullying and then offers up an anemic solution.
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A Good Day to Die Hard Review: Bigger Is Not Better
When hack director John Moore was announced to direct A Good Day to Die Hard I knew things would play out one of two ways: either Moore would rise to the challenge of directing an entry in one of the greatest film franchises of all time or Moore would drag the series down into whatever sewer he crawled out of. Well, the results came in earlier this week; critics have unanimously trashed the movie. And I can confirm that while the movie isn’t as bad as its rating on Rotten Tomatoes might indicate, it’s still represents the series’ nadir.
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Star Citizen – Custom Citizen Card Orders Ending
Oh that’s SO hot…
Roberts’ Space Industries has, over the last couple of days been announcing that the time frame for getting your customized citizen card is drawing to an end. And that, it has. With today being the last day for the custom orders, if you haven’t gotten yours set up, you’re pretty much out of luck at this point.
Sucks to be you!
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Did Nintendo Send The Wii U Out To Slaughter, Dreamcast-Style?
I’m still sittin’ in your stores, bogarting your palettes.
Whatever timid performance the Wii U was pulling off this holiday, it appears to be doing even worse now. Per NPD’s five-week reporting timeline for January 2013, the Wii U sold 55,000 units against the Xbox 360’s 281,000 units. These look sad on paper, but then you have to factor in that the Wii U is new hardware that typically continues to sell out through the New Year, but Wii U consoles can still be found in every store on demand. Worse still, compared to the four week period after the Wii launched in January 2007, the Wii U pales further with a paltry 46,000 units compared to 348,000 Wiis. This spells gloom and doom and in any other environment, the Wii U would have some room to grow. Unfortunately, Microsoft and Sony have other plans.
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I’d Welcome Harrison Ford Back As Han Solo Any Day
You’re telling me I’m doing… what?
Word around the internet is coming that Harrison Ford will be reprising his role as Han Solo in the upcoming J.J. Abrams-directed Star Wars: Episode VII. There’s some element of surprised reaction floating around this rumor, but the real surprise would be if Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher – Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia respectively – weren’t going to be in the upcoming trilogy in any capacity. In Lucas’ on-again, off-again flirtation with a sequel trilogy, as you’ll remember, he wanted to have geriatric versions of those characters he’d filmed decades before strutting on-screen to impart advice or otherwise be on the screen for gravitas, especially in Hamill’s case as he would be a legendary Jedi tasked with rebuilding the Order. But yeah, sure, Ford. Makes sense.
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 Is Coming Soon! Release Date Included.
Sniping fake people on my screen makes me happy. VERY happy.
Oh yeah, you read that correctly. The sequel to the mega-fun Sniper: Ghost Warrior is dropping for PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, in the near future and if it’s anything like the original, it’s going to be HOT! And by “HOT” I mean overflowing with snipey goodness.
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Kum & Go’s Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza Review: It’s Delicious
“I knew the night I saw you on the showroom floor, you were meant for me.”
Unless you live in the American midwest, a Kum & Go is not within reach. In short, it’s an upscale C-store/gas station where smiling employees in pressed white shirts and khakis greet you from their dais. They started opening a number of these in the Springs just recently and they came to my attention primarily because of Kelly’s unbridled love of breakfast-themed foods, including the legendary Breakfast Pizza. (We even made a quick stop last year on our way to LA for E3.) One whole wall in each Kum & Go is a dedicated kitchen where you can have said pizzas and other foods made, including the number you see above: a gorgeous pickle-tinged Bacon Cheeseburger pizza. My heart was simply incomplete until I had one.
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Lying About Tesla’s Model S Will Result In CEO Elon Musk Wrecking Your Junk With Facts
Tesla records all review drives, so they know exactly when you’re telling the truth.
I wager that New York Times reporter John Broder didn’t see this coming. A few years ago, BBC’s Top Gear program ran a segment on the Tesla Roadster, the all-electric company’s first car. I enjoy the show thoroughly, so it was a bit of a surprise that the crew had such trouble with it, including running out of juice well before the advertised range and the car breaking entirely, unable to operate. Back in the shop, Tesla discovered that the show had no such issues and had, in fact, scripted the entire disaster. Not only did a court case follow, but Tesla began to log the telemetry of the vehicles they sent out for review. When the Times published Broder’s negative review of the car, featuring a picture of the car being pulled onto a flatbed tow truck, Tesla was more than a little skeptical. Then they pulled out the logs… and the results weren’t pretty.
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ESA Launches Digital Citizenship Program
Time to get your digital learn on!
The Entertainment Software Association and EverFi have launched the Digital Living Project, a new initiative which will provide an instructional platform at no cost to taxpayers or the school districts in which they are used. The program is currently in use at 20 schools in the Los Angeles area, including Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnet High School and will be expanding in to more schools in 2013.
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Google, Just integrate Lookout Security Into Android Already
I don’t know why this isn’t integrated into the OS.
I love Lookout. I had convinced my friend, we’ll call him Jerry, who then convinced his friend, we’ll call him Kramer, to pick up Lookout Security for his Android phone. Sure enough, in less than a week Jerry is telling me about how he and George had gotten home without George’s phone. George had lost it somewhere. No matter! The phone had Lookout Security running and just a little bit of battery left so they whipped open a laptop and pulled up Lookout’s web site. Sure enough, they found the phone resting in a bed of snow outside the bar they’d just left. For a free app, it’s pretty amazing.
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