Deep Thoughts on the Office

I haven’t watched the Office since I graduated college, but sitting here just now, I had some thoughts about the show that I had to get down. From what I here the show is ending soon. It has a season or two left, and I was considering how it is going to end. In thinking [...]

District 9: A little over-hyped

Libby and I received and watched District 9 last night, and I have to admit that I was a little disappointed. She liked the movie more than I did. My issue is with the story. If you choose to watch that movie as an allegory for Apartheid then it works fine, but if you want [...]

The World Ends with You: An emo boy in Tokyo grows up and fights some demons

I grew up on role playing games by Squaresoft. RPGs are those games like Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior where you take control of a character, build there abilities over the course of an adventure until you fight a big, bad guy. I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours playing games like Final Fantasy 3, [...]

Professor Layton: I didn’t know studying for the LSAT could be a game.

The first game I slotted into the new DSi was Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. Layton is a series of puzzle games for the DSi. There are two games in the series currently released in America and four out in Japan. There are six intended games in the series. Each game tells a story [...]

I’m a gamer again

After about seven years of not owning a modern game console, I have finally entered the modern age of video games. For Christmas I got a Nintendo DSi with three games- Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, The World Ends with You, and Dragon Quest V (When writing about video games, I will link them [...]

Bulk review time because most of these movies weren’t very good

It’s great writing reviews for a blog were I get upwards of 10 views when I post an opinion. It does a self esteem good. I kid; I kid. Over the break I got to see four movies. Unfortunately, I have really bad taste because most of them just weren’t that good. Case in point, [...]

Observe and Report: Like Taxi Driver but funny

Observe and Report starts out like a pretty average comedy movie about a loser who wants to make it big, and then somewhere around half way through and certainly by the third act the movie gets really, really dark. Instead a being about a guy trying to make it, the movie morphs into derangement. Seth [...]

The Brothers Bloom: The maker of Brick goes neo-old-school again

If you haven’t seen Brick, rent it; queue it;  just make sure you see it. The Brothers Bloom is a lot like Brick not thematically or visually but in its style. It is a very, very old Hollywood  heist movie as distilled through the sieve of Wes Anderson. The movie is about two brothers, Bloom [...]

Evangelion: Wait, I’m watching anime again?

When I was in my early-teens, I was really into anime, which are Japanese cartoons. I don’t know exactly why, but I know it game from my love of video games at the time. One kind of lead to another. By the time I was a sophomore in high school, I had pretty much lost [...]

Dark City: I dub thee Decopunk

I’m realizing that I don’t write a lot of negative reviews; not that this is going to be one. I imagine it’s because I’m curating the movies that I want to see on Netflix. Anyway, if you haven’t seen Dark City just rent it. Other than maybe the ending, there is nothing bad about this [...]