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From the “Why Can’t I Buy This?” department

In Entertainment on 30 June 2008 tagged action figures, Entertainment, Film, movies with no comments

If you’ve seen the movie There Will Be Blood, you probably wish that you had a full set of “There Will Be Blood” action figures, just like me. Imagine re-enacting the baptism scene with Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday. “I’ve abandoned my boy!” Or sitting a fully poseable Daniel Plainview down in front of a [...]

Xbox DEAD OR ALIVE

In Entertainment on 1 January 2008 tagged Entertainment, Games, live, Microsoft, monoculture, movies, Video, Xbox360 with no comments

No, no, it’s still kinda broken… Worse, I tried watching The Bourne Ultimatum on the HD-DVD player and it crapped-out halfway through the movie. There was an available update for the HD-DVD player which I didn’t dare apply because of all the wonkiness. After some cursing and wringing of the remote, I pulled the disc [...]

Allergy Resurrection

In Entertainment on 8 September 2007 tagged alien, Entertainment, excrecence, Film, ghost-rider, joss-whedon, movies, nicolas-cage, resurrection, reviews, ripley, Video with 3 comments

While I’m somewhat incapacitated with some seasonal allergies, I thought I’d take a few minutes to write about the movie I just watched for the first time since it was in theatres 10 years ago: “Alien: Resurrection“. I just read a fairly lengthy interview with Joss Whedon on the Onion’s AV Club and thought I’d [...]