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Sci-Fi Revoltech #001: Alien review

Kaiyodo upped their quality with the Sci-Fi Revoltech line.  The first one in the series (Sci-Fi Revoltech #001: Alien) is the alien from the Aliens series of movies.  Very attractive box, and the Alien inside looks very well done.

Does it function as good as it looks? Hit the break for a review.

Scott Pilgrim vs The Trailer

VS

A personal letdown is when I hold-off reading something for long periods of time only to go back when a movie adaptation is coming-up (bad darthvid, no twinkie!); It makes me feel dirty (“riding the trend train” dirty).

I read Precious Little Life shortly after vs The Universe got published (late in the game, [...]

Anime World Order reviews the last decade in anime

Anime World Order (AWO), a great, great anime podcast, is currently reviewing the past decade’s (2000 – 2009) significant anime. As of this writing, they’ve only covered until 2004.

Anime fans will find the podcast a good listen, with occasional comparisons between Western and Japanese takes on anime.  It’s also a good opportunity to see [...]

Avatar movie reviewed by epic Episode 1 review guy

After an epic Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace review, Mike Stoklasa is back with a review of Avatar.  It’s a more manageable 20 minutes now, and given that Avatar has fewer… “inconsistencies” compared to the subject of his previous review, it still manages to exhibit the same humor and level of film-making analysis [...]

70min Star Wars: Episode 1 movie review better than actual 130min movie

Mike Stoklasa‘s review is really long @$$, but seems to fly faster than Anakin’s pod-race sequence!  It’s a bit like Film Making 101 meets Yahtzee.  The humor can get disturbing at times, but it is brutally honest with an eye for the structure and purpose of film.

Perhaps Gizmodo’s headline describes it aptly by saying that [...]

Scribble me this

On your way home one fine afternoon, you happen upon a little girl staring at the roof of some house, where a little kitty appears to be stuck.  Being the nice guy that you are, you decide to give the little girl a hand.  Maybe you’d get a ladder to climb-up and get the kitty?  [...]

June 2009 recap

Busy month, last June was.  A lot of interesting stuff, and not enough time write lengthy spiels about.  Micro-blogging has thankfully allowed me to at least place some of those thoughts on record (which reminds me to look for some means of archiving them properly), but some of them are somewhat significant that I’d like [...]

Who watched the Watchmen? I did, and you should too!

… well, you should if you’re willing to deal with a deep/heavy storyline involving personal issues, the nature of humanity, and supes.  The story ain’t for everybody, nor is the movie.

If you still don’t know, Watchmen is a movie directed by Zack Snyder based on a 12-issue comic of the same name, which was written [...]

Late in the game for Team Fortress 2

The Orange Box was released on 2007, so getting it just now (as mentioned in my previous post) makes me a bit late in the game.  My system can barely run Portal, and I’ve even run out of virtual memory (a problem I rarely encounter).

Still, in my bone-headed desire to fill the time until I [...]

There’s fraggin’, and then there’s puzzle fraggin’

The past week was filled with rave reviews on Left 4 Dead.  Since I already got myself a steam account last week, and since I’m assuming you’ll need Steam anyway to play Valve games, I was considering purchasing Left 4 Dead online so I can finally get my feet wet with multiplayer FPSs.

Two things gave [...]