Soon To Be Playing – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
I was trying to come up with a “picture this” experience to start this review to give you an idea of just how big the 4th installment of the Mission: Impossible series is, but everything is just dwarfed in comparison. It is that intense. Usually there comes a point in an action film where you just have to stop and say: →
Now Playing Review – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Though it is still debatable if Robert Downey Jr. or Wishbone makes a better Sherlock Holmes, the memorable quality of Downey’s performance two years ago as the classic detective will be impossible to forget. He made what I assumed to be a stodgy, pipe-smoking British guy eccentrically cool, something that I couldn’t help get enough of. “But Lauren, why is the →
HST Discusses: Young Adult
While discussing Young Adult after a screening a couple weeks ago, Alan and I realized that we didn’t quite see eye-to-eye on this one. Here are our (spoiler free) thoughts on this movie. Also be sure to check out Zac’s review as well to see where his opinion lines up with ours. Lauren: I hate to do this, and I should →
Book Club In Session – Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse
WARNING: This is a full-blown discussion of the book, so as such there will be spoilers throughout. Proceed with caution! If you would like to read a spoiler free review, follow this link! Lauren: Oh robots. We lean on them like a crutch so much so that when they step aside, we inevitably fall, crack our heads open, and die (well →
Gaming Review – Rage (Campaign)
It is obvious why the title Rage was given to this video game. Two seconds out of the pod and some angry albino is trying to shove a knife into my chest. Clearly there is some much needed anger management on this planet. Or times have definitely changed from when I was last awake. Let’s set the scene. In a post →
For Your Renting Pleasure
With giant food babies resting nicely in your stomach following Thanksgiving, renting some movies to help the lounging around become a little more entertaining sounds like a pretty good idea, right? Well, here are some ideas on what to get. (Batman: Year One; Crazy, Stupid, Love; and [Rec]2 for those too impatient to wait until after the break) Batman: Year One →
Gaming Review – Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (Campaign)
With the number of Assassin’s Creed games that have been released in the recent past, I am starting to wonder if they are trying to outdo The Sims with that series's affinity of releasing expansion packs. Thankfully each game is a full adventure on its own, with this 3rd installment of Ezio’s trilogy within a trilogy finally bringing two characters →
Gaming Review – Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (Campaign)
I don’t mean to brag, but when I was little I was decent at climbing trees. I mean, I would get at least 10 feet off the ground. Ok, so that’s not that grand, but I had sensitive hands, and bark is all scratchy… The point is that for people with childhoods like mine, living vicariously through characters like Monkey →
Now Playing Review – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
Two nights ago I had a dream that winged creatures were attacking my school, which for some reason looked like a castle. As my friends were devoured in front of my eyes by hungry jaws (RIP Cassidy), I could not cower in fear because I had a mission. That’s right, thanks to weeks of seeing Breaking Dawn – Part 1 →
For Your Renting Pleasure
In this week of rentals I found myself disappointed with many of this years "better" comedies, where two other films ending up where I expected them to be. If you're considering renting The Alphabet Killer, Horrible Bosses, Your Highness, or Win Win then read my thoughts before making your choice this coming weekend. The Alphabet Killer (2008) Last week was Case 39, →
The Breakdown – The Hunger Games Trailer
Sometime within the last year my sister bought the three books that make up this trilogy. Starting with book 1, The Hunger Games hooked me right away, and I was already tearing up 20 or so pages in because of how quickly I had attached myself to the characters. It is an addictive read, to say the least, as the →
Now Playing Review – Like Crazy
The thing about romantic comedies is that they’re the safer bet when it comes to love stories. On Valentine’s Day the sappiest girl is not going to put in something that ends tragically, they are going to put in something where it is pretty much a guarantee that the two will end up together; the prince will save her, the →
For Your Renting Pleasure
With a fall season shooting out some big name video games and an important World Series for STL fans, the Cardinals, Batman, and Nathan Drake have been keeping me a little too busy to slip some movies in. Ok, there might have also been a Teen Wolf marathon on MTV at some point… However, with those games in the bag →
Gaming Review – Batman: Arkham City
As I had to do when I wrote up Batman: Arkham Asylum, I must start this by apologizing to Superman. As much as I like to believe that I am a Man of Steel kind of girl, I just can’t stay away from The Bat when he makes video games like this. Batman: Arkham City follows the events of the first →
Now Playing Review – The Rum Diary
Years ago when Captain Jack Sparrow was wondering where all the rum had gone, he probably would have never guessed that it was being stockpiled for another movie by the man filling his shoes. That traitor! Johnny Depp’s appropriately titled new film, The Rum Diary, has lots of rum, and not much else. Based on the book of the same name, →
Open Thread – Games: A Scarier Format Than Film?
Lauren: With Halloween coming up just around the corner, now is the time to up your yearly dose of horror infused entertainment. Personally I love the genre, but films are one thing, while video games are something else. They are the killer sharpening his blade in my closet while he softly, albeit menacingly, whispers my name in a promise that →
For Your Renting Pleasure
Week after week I apparently find ways to theme my rentals without realizing it beforehand. Scratch that, I totally did it on purpose, and you know it’s true cuz I said totally. A couple of weeks ago I went with creature features, and this week’s selection of The Nines and Being John Malkovich has me going for films in which →
Now Playing Review – The Thing
If any of you read my “For Your Renting Pleasure” post from last week then you would have seen that I just watched the original The Thing (1982), and though I didn’t get the appeal of that film, I was not going to let it stomp out my excitement for this prequel. (From now on to avoid confusion, or possibly add →
The Breakdown – Marvel’s The Avengers Trailer
Last night the ALCS game ran long on FOX due to extra innings, so neither Nate or myself got more than 8 minutes of Terra Nova's episode recorded. Lucky us, if FOX is still doing their "make you suffer" game of posting shows 8 days after airing, we're gonna have to wait a while to see the rest of the →
For Your Renting Pleasure
This week I have spent plenty of time at the theater and gaming (Rage FYI), but I managed to fit some movie rentals in this weekend so that I would have thoughts to share with you guys (yes I do realize how narcissistic that sounds). This week we've got two films with Natalie Portman, The Other Woman and The Professional, →
Now Playing Review – Real Steel
Real Steel still has some large flaws in many ways, but it isn’t hard to say that it has dethroned a certain transforming summer blockbuster from its spot as the top robot movie of the year (which it was only perched on because of a lack of competition). For a film with a strong PG-13 rating for its word use (and →
TV Ramblings – The Secret Circle “Heather” @cinemablend
This week's episode of The Secret Circle gets us a few steps closer to some real answers to the "accident" that occurred 16 years ago with the inclusion of Heather in tonight's episode. She was a friend of Cassie's mother, but for some reason her mother did something to Heather that makes it a little more challenging for the circle →
Now Playing Review – The Ides of March
It’s very hard for me to get into anything involving politics: the news, debates, conversations, etc. Yes, I am one of those people. Just try to get me involved; I will give myself 5 minutes tops before the blank stare completely takes over my face as the droning noise of speech is washed away by thoughts of something more appealing →
My Week in Comics – Woman, Bats, Turtles, and Vamps
In this weeks roundup of comics (still lagging in my write-ups due to waiting to receive my comics in the mail before I move to a digital format), I read a bunch of the DC 52 comics, including Batman #1, Catwoman #1, I, Vampire #1, Nightwing #1, Supergirl #1, and Wonder Woman #1, in this penultimate week of the relaunch, →
