A Cookie Filled With Arsenic
Sweet Smell of Success is a classic movie with one of the greatest screenplays in the history of cinema. The Duellists is… not. I don’t understand why The Castro decided to run them together.
Works for Me!
Boneheaded responses to piracy are getting more subtle but no less boneheaded
Responsibility
An open letter to Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Dianne Feinstein, supporter and co-sponsor of the PROTECT IP bill and supporters of SOPA
Lore on Demand
Repressed memories dredged up by Skyrim, and reconsidering some assumptions about storytelling in videogames
Heart Felt
We’re long past due for sincerity to make a comeback, and The Muppets are the perfect ones to bring it.
iLife
Piecing together the obituaries and eulogies of Steve Jobs makes it clear that his impact wasn’t just reality distortion
Something Rotten
Orson Scott Card finally explains what Hamlet’s real problem was all along, but we’re still no closer to finding out why Card is such an asshole.
Choices
Getting all worked up thinking about years wasted arguing over the wrong thing.
They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore
Captain America: The First Avenger is another case of Marvel making franchise movies better than they need to be.
Uncanny Valley of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is eerily like a real movie
L-i-t-t-l-e M-o-n-e-y
Final Fantasy Tactics and the bizarro psychology of Apple App Store pricing
Beyond the Abilities of Normal Humans
Another gripe about the dumbing down of the media