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 has but half of these thriller-action clichés. And, much more substance beneath its Hollywood veneer. continue…

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?
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If you find that your clean white bathroom to be disappointingly free of suggestions of murder and not looking enough like a crime scene you can now lay your mind at ease. Why go through the trouble of seducing a house guest and brutally murdering them in the shower just to accomplish that certain rouge aesthetic? Now you can get this Blood Bath Shower Curtain and Bath mat to satisfy your most Hitchcockian urges without having to even pick up a kitchen knife. Talk about modern convenience! Our only suggestion would be to make it water reactive so that pigmentation only became visible when wet, for that added sense of surprise

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We have finally had some respite after the holiday game release rush of 2008. There were just so many games to check out in such a little timeframe. It was quite an unfortunate situation for many publishers. There is only a finite amount of consumer attention to go around after all. We still don’t know too much about games slated for 2009 though there are a few slated for first quarter release that we had been looking forward to. Halo Wars is high up on that list and we’re quite pleased that the publishers decided to delay the release until after that rush so we could take the time to give it the attention it deserves.

Its a real-time strategy game (or RTS) set in the fiction of Bungie Studios’ Halo series. Executive Producer Steve Schreck has crafted this title specifically for the Xbox 360 at Ensemble Studios, allowing them to forgo concessions of multiplatform design and focus on what was best for that environment. The video game console is argued by many to be an atypical environment for an RTS game (these people favor the PC for such games) though it is easy to draw up a list of strategy games on platforms other than the PC comparable to any list of those on it, suggesting this argument is a fallacy and deserving of dismissal. continue…