Buddy comedies have never really been mature. Especially male buddy comedies. Two guys do stupid things, a girl separates them, they fight, they make up. It’s a romance without all the sex and way more penis jokes. Over the last few years an onslaught of Judd Apatow approved comedies have taken the “bromance” to new [...]

It has been a long time since I felt like I wasted 60 bucks. You pretty much know what to expect from a Soul Calibur title, and its usually a variety of options based around a very basic battle system. Soul Calibur V offers up some throw backs alongside experimental systems in disappointing combinations. Some [...]

This might be trollish to say, it might enrage some people, but if you hate the Underworld series and happily defend the Predator series then you madame or sir, might be a bit of a hypocrite. Both series are an amalgam of clichés indicative of their respective decades. They’ve got some pretty great costuming and [...]

I can’t have been the only one a little concerned going into Haywire. Sure Steven Soderbergh is one of our greatest living directors with an experimental flare to rival the European New Wave of cinema, and yes him tackling a full on action film was going to be interesting but he had a lot of [...]

Now days the movies we see and the games we play seem to glorify war. They show off the ruthless efficiency of the soldiers and the cool technology. In so much of what we see of modern warfare it’s all perfectly executed battle plans against horrific adversaries. Terrorists and despots and drug lords and slavers. [...]

A few years ago, fresh off a surprise Oscar win for Juno, Diablo Cody was enlisted to write a Sweet Valley High remake. Since then she’s released the underrated Jennifer’s Body and the uneven but brilliantly experimental United States of Tara. She’s also signed on to adapt a remake of Evil Dead. And she’s done [...]

It’s been over a month since I first slipped Skyrim into my Xbox 360, installed it and delved into its world. Maybe I should have installed Windows sooner so that I could appreciate it on a PC. There’s something about Elder Scrolls games that make them just work better when you’re hunched over a mouse [...]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is a funny film. Not as in a curiosity but as in humorous. Scenes in this film had the audience around me chuckling with laughter. Once it was a bit of wryly expressed hatred spewed from Christopher Plummer’s mouth. Another time it was Blomkvist tripping while running from a [...]

I know a lot of critics are dismissing Jack & Jill, the new Adam Sandler movie in which he plays the eponymous roles. And it’s easy to look at the horrible trailer, the cookie-cutter title, the parade of familiar Sandler supporting cast members, and assume it’s going to be another Grown-Ups. I don’t think that’s [...]

Dark Souls, I have been sitting here, trying to play you, for the last week. Maybe there was a respite at one point where I did nothing but watch Ranma 1/2 for 24 hours straight, but for the most part I’ve been playing you like clockwork every day. And I hate you. You’re a terrible, [...]