Released on Blu-ray and DVD this week is the Sundance hit turned Oscar darling, Whiplash. While it missed awards for the top categories, J.K. Simmons took a statue home for his turn as the overbearing jazz conductor, Terence Fletcher; Tom Cross nabbed one for his flashy editing; and Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, and Thomas Curley […]
The original Resident Evil: Revelations was a welcomed relief after action filled shooters like Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City. It was slower paced, had more puzzles and was more survival focused. It also had some new ideas like Raid Mode, a TV series style presentation and a weapon upgrade system. Revelations 2 […]
Capcom released this new trailer for the highly anticipated Street Fighter V out of nowhere earlier today showing off the return of Nash, aka Charlie from the Alpha series. However, this ain’t the Nash you remember from those games as you can see from the video below. First of all, the game is significantly looking […]
Sometimes a slower episode of The Walking Dead works well. Case in point, last week’s swan song for Tyreese wasn’t a barn burner when it came to plot, but it worked incredibly well in terms of character. However, sometimes The Walking Dead gets a bit too caught up in itself and turns in a slow burn […]
“Canaries” was almost a perfect episode of Arrow. If only they hadn’t gone back to using the crutch of Vertigo as the impetus for the main action of the story. But, I’m willing to overlook that small element of the plot, as “Canaries” allowed for huge leaps in the season’s story arcs and some major […]
From the “letter to the editor” at the onset of Wetlands, director David Wnendt sets the tone for the depravity to come. Subverting genre stereotypes, modern hygienic practices, and common decency, Wetlands blends its crude, gross-out humor with a delicately sweet seriousness, deafening the shock of the first exposition shots, and lending gravity to the […]
The Big Game! I don’t know if I can say the name. The S-Name, you know what I mean. It’s Sunday as I’m writing this and the big annual Football-Game-Which-Cannot-Be-Named is/has happened and there’s a sizable chance you will see/have seen it! In celebration, I’ve assembled a list of comic book character who put blood […]
When we last left Oliver Queen, he was bleeding to death on the side of a large mountain. Which, for a normal person in a normal television series, would mean almost certain death. But, you can’t have a show named Arrow without actually having the Arrow, so there was very little doubt that the show […]
Otorimonogatari is now out on DVD and Blu-ray, telling the four episode arc “Nadeko Mendusa” from the Anime series Monogatari. Nadeko Sengoku is a 14-year-old Junior High School student. She is a very quiet, shy and reserved girl who just wants to carry on with school. But she suffers from seeing imagines of a white […]
Redesigns are in, you guys. They’re the big deal. Spider-Woman, Batgirl, Powergirl, Iron Man. It’s a booming business these days. New looks for characters not only sell comics, they also allow the companies to reinvent the character. Sometimes that means simply pushing a character in a new direction, other times it means getting rid of […]
