Netflix to Wii!
All three video game systems will now suport Netflix and this is a win for everyone. The Wii based viewing of your streaming queue looks to be handled simillarly to PS3 in that you will have to request a disc from Netflix, for free, and when inserted in your Wii it will connect to Netflix and display your queue →
TV Review – Chuck Season 3 Premiere Event
Season 3 of Chuck finally started up Sunday by airing the first two episodes of the season, followed by a third episode on Monday as the series moved to its actual air time for the rest of the season. Though there are a few things I am pouting about (which I will get to later), this season is looking like →
Rental Review – Adam
Adam is a cute, yet heartbreaking look at a man suffering from the inability to function “normally” in the world around him, especially when it comes to love. Following his father’s death, Adam returns to their apartment to continue living his solitary life of ritual and habit. Everyday he eats the same cereal for breakfast, goes to work as an electronics →
Blu-Tuesday: 1/12 – A Trio of Great Releases
Moon, The Hurt Locker, and The Brothers Bloom are all out today and I can recommend all of them with ease. Moon is in my top ten of 09, where on that list I will still keep secret till my 09 review come Oscar time, and features one of, if not the best male performance of the year in →
Suggestion Box (Jan. 4 – 10)
Dante’s Inferno Demo – Control Dante as he goes about finding his way to the gates of Hell. The depth perception is a little hard to get used to (at least during your bout with Death himself), but the cutscenes are phenomenal. It is available now on both the XBOX 360 and PS3.
Queue Review: Gomorrah
This Italian mob movie isn’t as flashy or romanticized as many American gangster pictures are, but the films gritty and real life feel give the picture an extra weight and tension that you never know what is going to happen. Opening with a set of hits that sets off a civil war among gangs, we follow a group of individuals that →
Queue Review: Jennifer's Body
Diablo Cody’s second screenplay is full of great ideas and a number of good lines but something keeps Jennifer’s Body from gelling into a well paced and entertaining picture that seems to be hiding in there like the demons inside our title character. The story follows the school’s hottest girl Jennifer and her best friend Needy whose unlikely friendship is probably →
Review: The Messenger
Oren Moverman’s The Messenger is a great honest look into the side of war we rarely see, the deceased family dealing with receiving the news of the passing, and the results are a film filled with sadness, anger, and humor surrounding this delicate and vulnerable situation. The messenger in question is a staff sergeant, Will, who has returned home due to →
Now Playing Review: Leap Year
Leap Year has the cast and story to become at least a cute romantic comedy, though completely unoriginal, but all I can say is if this movie shows what happens on a leap year, then I am really glad they only come around once every four years. Anna is the type of person with her life planned out. She already has →
While I Was Streaming: The Girlfriend Experience
Steven Soderbergh’s latest small budget “experimental” film is a triumph in both story telling and originality while successfully taking us into a world few of us understand while pairing it with a theme we can all relate to with the timely issue surrounding the downturn in the economy. First off, for being such a low budget film Soderbergh’s film looks pretty →
Review: Youth in Revolt
Youth in Revolt might look like another run of the mill Michael Cera movie, but in actuality it is one of his best acted and broadest range shown yet in a surprisingly fun and irreverent farce about fighting for the one you love. Nick Twisp is your average teenage boy, without a girl, enthralled with sex, and is rather awkward when →
Review: Sherlock Holmes
Guy Ritchie teams up with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law to reboot the classic tale and the end result is an entertaining and well acted effort that fails to ever really be anything but pretty good; not that there is anything wrong with that. Instead of going straight into traditional origins and reboot territory, I think the film wisely throws →
Review: Leap Year
Leap Year is a conventional rom-com that makes all the prescribed moves and is entirely predictable; only its two likeable leads and excellent cinematography save it from being an absolute failure. Amy Adams and Matthew Goode are just to fine of actors to be in this trivial and run of the mill premise where the only fresh thing about the picture →
A Look at 010: Part 1 – January – June
OK, here is my 010 preview for the first six months of the year. I will follow up in the next week or so with the second half and probably repost individual months as we go along. Anyways, on with the show! January: Youth in Revolt-Having seen this I can tell you that it is not to be missed and is going →
Scott Pilgrim Pics!!!
I have decided this is my most anticipated film of 010, show me a trailer! Enjoy the first two official pics! Another after the jump!
Suggestion Box (Dec. 28 – Jan. 3)
Repo Men Red Band Trailer – In the future people can now purchase organs to better their lives. The problem is that when you can’t pay the bill, Jude Law is going to come cut it out of you. Check it out here.
Gaming Review: Assassin's Creed 2
Assassin’s Creed 2 improves greatly on the first game of the series (which was solid on its own, repetition and all), proving that listening to an audience’s complaints can be more than beneficial. By doing so, there is no question that this is one of the best games of 2009. This sequel picks up right where the first ends. Desmond Miles →
Rental Review: Terminator Salvation
The Terminator series has come a long way with Terminator Salvation in terms of graphics, but the story fails to meet the standards set up by the prior films. In the year 2018, the machines still have the upper hand following their all out nuclear strike many years before on Judgment Day. Though forced to live in hiding thanks to their →
Rental Review: Extract
For a movie about flavored extract, Extract sure is bland. For the most part, Joel lives a pretty mediocre life. He lives comfortably in his nice house with a nice car in the driveway, but its hard to be content with this with an annoyingly outspoken neighbor and a wife that uses sweat pants as if to say “you’re not →
