Tag Archives: reviews

Games 9/27: Wipeout HD, Burnout Paradise

I never played a Wipeout game before Wipeout HD, but I am a fan of the F-Zero series. Wipeout HD is not dissimilar to F-Zero. It feels more floaty than F-Zero, but it’s not that far off. Another difference is the presence of weapons, but in my experience so far they don’t [...]

TV 9/25: The Mentalist

The Mentalist is a new show on CBS, the pilot episode debuted a couple days ago.  It’s about a guy whose observational skills are so sharp that people would assume he’s a psychic if he let them.  He used to make money doing
John Edward (biggest douche in the universe) style shows, now he works [...]

TV and Movie 9/24 – House, Heroes, The Fall

I downloaded The Fall on a whim.  Never heard of it before, but it was in the HD section of my movie download source and it has a pretty good rating on IMDb so I figured I’d give it a shot.  Usually when I do this I watch about 5 minutes of the movie [...]

Movies 9/23/08 – Awake; Redbelt; War, Inc.

Normally I’d just post this type of thing on the forums’ movie thread, but I figured I’ve got a blog I might as well use it.

Awake has a premise that seems interesting but they just use it as a backdrop for a mediocre thriller.  The premise is that a small percentage of people are [...]

Burnout Paradise is a good game

I don’t know if you know this, but Burnout Paradise does not have a retry function (UPDATE: It now has a retry function.  Simply press right on the D-Pad during the event you wish to retry). I say this facetiously, because it’s the only thing everyone (including me) bitched about when the demo came [...]

Ebert’s Review of “The Great Debaters” (and also the movie itself)

This is the review in question, I’m not sure if you need to read it first or not.
Generally speaking, I appreciate Roger Ebert’s written reviews. He’s a bit of a douche, but his logic usually makes sense to me. And most of the time that is enough to keep me happy. But [...]