Review: Green Zone DVD

Alright, so we know what you’re thinking: Another cookie-cutter Iraq war movie. Explosions, guns, tension, half-baked and loosely interwoven love story, helicopters crashing, Matt Damon. But, hold the phone! We are quite happy (and pleasantly surprised!) to report that director Paul Greengrass’ latest offering, Green Zone, (inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s novel Imperial Life in the Emerald City) only...

Review: Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex is a movie adaptation of the graphic novel by DC comics by the same name. On paper it seems to have a lot of ingredients to a fun summer action blockbuster. I know a few people who are even excited to check it out. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s a hard rock western tale of revenge with lots of explosions and a seasoned cast. What could go wrong? Well, unfortunately everything went wrong....

Review: Living Colours

We first saw the Philips living Colours in 2006 when it was still a concept design and fell in love instantly. It looked fantastic and was such an exciting idea. A couple of years later in 2008 we saw the commercialized version and it looked a little grim. It had lost a lot of it’s initial charm and was a shadow of it’s former self. now another two years later in 2010 I’ve actually gotten my...

Review: Doom II (Xbox Live Arcade)

Doom II is close to my heart. It remains among my favorite video games of all time. It is such a classic that any time it gets re-released I get both excited and scared. I’ve tried all the official releases (though the game has been unofficially ported to countless platforms by now) and now theres a new one to add to the list: Xbox Live Arcade. Yes, they’re still releasing incarnations of Doom II and...

Review: Harry Brown – The British Bronson

Comparisons to Clint Eastwood's turn in Gran Torino will obviously be leveled at Harry Brown, both films being old-dudes-out-for-justice thrillers, but I think it bears far more similarities to Charles Bronson's Death Wish movies than Torino. Eastwood's project is far more layered and bites off a lot more in terms of subject matter - issues of race, abandonment, and a father-son element between Eastwood's character and his young neighbor are all dealt with varying degrees of success. Harry Brown, on the other hand, is a much more straight-ahead affair.