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Review: Green Zone DVD

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...
Posted by on Oct 30th, 2008 | 0 comments

RiP: A remix manifesto

RiP: A remix manifesto
Brett Gaylor from Open Source Cinema in cooperation with the National Film Board of Canada has written and produced this new documentary film which asks a question: Which side of the ideas are you on? Beta screenings have already taken place which have generated some pretty good buzz around this one. It’s an open source documentary all about copyright, culture and, of course, remixing. It’s been worked...
Posted by on Oct 28th, 2008 | 3 comments

Review: Fallout 3

Review: Fallout 3
If you couldn’t tell by the weather that it was autumn you can tell by the avalanche of new blockbuster games. Today marks the North American release of Fallout 3 – a highly anticipated game having already won numerous awards before it was even complete. We first got hands on this game at X08 in Toronto earlier this year and were excited by what we saw even in that early and limited demo build. The original...
Posted by on Aug 22nd, 2008 | 0 comments

Maptoons

Maptoons
Pecay over at BibliOdessy has collected a few examples of satirical maps from the first World War. They function as political cartoons diagramming both geographic conditions and sentiment regarding various regions. You don’t see many such maps produced anymore but their charm is undeniable as they anthropomorphise various countries giving them personality and character, illustrating how they all...
Posted by on Jun 5th, 2008 | 0 comments

GTA versus CNN

Anthony DiMaggio has written a piece found in a place outside of the typical video game media outlets. Its easy to pass this by because there are no sensationalist headlines, pretty screenshots, or action packed videos. It really doesn’t look like a place where you’d expect a discussion pertaining to video games at all. Thats good though. Anthony basically is talking about how playing GTA is like...
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