• Sometimes When We Stylus

    A review, more or less, of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, plus a bit of marveling on the current state of tablet computers.

  • Jagermeister

    Pacific Rim has a message, and that message is “shut up and watch.”

  • Like a Super Hero

    I’m not qualified to write a eulogy for Ryan Davis, but I wish I were.

  • Oozma Kappa

    My report on Monsters University

  • Forty-Two

    I’m going to keep insisting that the beard is prematurely gray.

  • Pity the Poor Oppressed Majority

    How do you separate the art from the artist when the artist is such a flatulating asshole? Also: why the hypocrisy that makes me so angry might actually be a harbinger of oncoming poetic justice.

  • Towards Our Digital Future

    The “Xbox 180,” SimCity, and how someone who absolutely abhors software piracy can still think DRM sucks.

  • But How Does He Save?

    Man of Steel isn’t an unqualified success, but get this, nerds: it’s still the second best movie about Superman.

  • Everybody’s a Critic

    The documentary Room 237, the democratization of film criticism, and a belated eulogy for Roger Ebert

  • Shadows of the Empire

    What I learned from a job at LucasArts fifteen years ago.

  • Krypto-Bigotry

    Belated thoughts on Truth, Justice, and putting an end to a pernicious claim about Freedom of Speech.

  • Fearful Symmetry

    Answering a FAQ (that I keep getting, for some reason) about The Life of Pi