<p>This week I’m doing another film review – this time of a World War II Ensemble film – <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008Z44M/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00008Z44M&linkCode=as2&tag=themillenn0b3-20">Is Paris Burning?</a><img style="border:none!important;margin:0!important;" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=themillenn0b3-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00008Z44M" width="1" height="1" border="0"
<p>This week I’m reviewing a little known film from the Shaw Brothers. How little known is it? So unknown that I couldn’t find an IMDB page for this film!<span id="more-2595"></span></p>
<span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='620' height='379' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/27sdPh7nADU?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmo
Get US Marshals from Amazon.com
A while back I watched The Fugitive… and apparently it slipped my mind to review it. Either that, or I reviewed it somewhere else and can’t find it anymore. So, in short, I enjoyed the movie, and decided that (eventually), I would watch the film’s spiritual sequel – US Marshals. This review is going to get into some spoilers, but I’m keeping them below the cut. However, you are warned.
The film follows Deputy US Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) and his team
Image via Wikipedia
This week I have a proper film review, as I take a look at The Bourne Identity (the little-known 1988 version).
Filed under: film, Reviews, videos Tagged: Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne, Richard Chamberlain
Source
Get Flight 666 from Amazon.com
“World Tours” are, anymore, a given for most rock concert tours, at least with any performer big enough to get Platinum records. However, I really don’t think that most people “get” what goes into a concert tour that goes around the world – both in terms of the toll on the performers and the toll on the crew. This leads us to Flight 666, a concert film that follows Iron Maiden’s “Somewhere Back in Time” Concert Tour. What makes this tour different from other tours
Get "The Call of Cthulhu" at Amazon.com
When I entered Middle School, I started reading the works of HP Lovecraft. If you’re a fan of Horror, especially horror in the vein of the fantastic, you probably know some of Lovecraft’s works, without actually reading them. Lovecraft has inspired many a horror writer and director, from John Carpenter (“In the Mouth of Madness”) to Steven King (“The Mist”). However, while homages to his work have been made off and on over time, direct adaptations of his
Get 3:10 To Yuma at Amazon.com
This week I’ve got another western movie review for you. The last review in this genre was a somewhat older film in the genre with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This week I have a more recent film in the genre for you with the 2007 version of 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe & Christian Bale.
The Premise:
Christian Bale plays Dan Evans, a rancher and Civil War veteran, who is barely scraping by – and it doesn’t help that Glen Hollander, who Evans o
This week, I’m going a little more topical with my videos and discussing a current event – Harlan Ellison‘s attempt to stop the release of the film In Time.
Related articles
Sci-Fi Author Harlan Ellison Claims ‘In Time’ is Ripping Him Off, Sues to Stop The Film’s Release (moviefone.com)
Film: Newswire: Harlan Ellison suing makers of In Time, as any Harlan Ellison would (avclub.com)
Harlan Ellison Suing New Regency, Claims ‘In Time’ Rips Off His Short Story (slashfilm.com)
On the Books
Image via Wikipedia
This week I’ve got an editorial for you all, thanks to the embarassment of news riches that were worth ranting about. First I have a discussion on the reveal that “Mega Man” would appear in Street Fighter X Tekken, and then I have a discussion about the Used Game Debate, and whether the Occupy movement should get involved. (Hint: The answer is yes.)
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: editorial, Video games
Source
Now more than a little late to the party, I’m moving on with my thoughts on EA’s E3 Press Briefing from Monday.
Filed under: Video games Tagged: analysis, E3, E3 2011, EA, video
Source
Well behind schedule, I finally have my thoughts on the E3 games I was unsold on, including the “winner” of the “lucrative” award of shame of the show.
The IndieGoGo project mentioned in the video can be found here – http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/150672?c=home
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: Dead Space 3, Dust 514, E3 2012, EVE Online, Gears of War: Judgement, Tomb Raider, Wizardry Online
Source
This week, I’m returning to my E3 2012 coverage and finishing it up with my Top 5 Sold! List.
Persona 4 Arena footage: http://YouTube.com/AtlusUSA
Sleeping Dogs footage: http://YouTube.com/SleepingDogsGame
Rock Band Blitz footage: http://YouTube.com/HarmonixMusic
Watch Dogs footage: http://YouTube.com/Ubisoft.
Castlevania: Mirror of Fate: http://YouTube.com/Nintendo
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: Atlus, Castlevania, E3 2012, Harmonix, Konami, Persona 4, Rock Band, Rock Band Blitz
Well, at long last I’m finally done with my E3 2011 videos, with my thoughts of the games which turned me off from them, and the shame of the show – a title that disgusted me to the point that I threw up in my mouth a little.
Filed under: Video games Tagged: E3 2011, Video games
Source
I actually uploaded this on Thursday, but I didn’t get a chance to properly get a blog post up for this until today. Here’s my thoughts on Ubisoft’s E3 Press Briefing, and the horror that was Mr. Caffeine. So, let’s make like Wayne’s World and go Doodlo-doodlo-doodlo.
Related articles
E3 ’11: Ubisoft Press Conference (pinkbananaworld.com)
E3 2011: Nintendo and Ubisoft to Unleash Killer Freaks from Outer Space (dreadcentral.com)
LIVE At Ubisoft and Nintendo’s Mysterious E3 Q&A Event
Well, I’ve finally gotten to the end of the E3 press conferences, with the two other console manufacturers – Sony and Nintendo. I’m putting both videos in one post, just for the sake of tidiness, and I’m putting them both below the cut.
Sony
Nintendo
Filed under: Video games Tagged: analysis, E3 2011, Nintendo, Press Conference, Sony
Source
After much delay, it’s now time for me to talk about the games from this year’s E3 that caught my interest. Specifically, I’m referring to titles that I wasn’t already sold on coming in to the event (like Uncharted), or that were announced at the event (like Hitman: Absolution).
Filed under: Video games Tagged: E3 2011, Video games
Source
Get "Shawn Michaels: From the Vault" from Amazon.com
Now, once again I have another wrestling DVD review this week, though this one takes a different tack from my other reviews, because I’m not doing a match-by-match recap this time. Why? Well, the review will explain.
The Premise:
The DVDs recap some of Shawn Michaels’ wrestling career, from his tag career, to the beginnings of his solo run, to his return to the WWE.
The Good:
Most of the matches on here are classics. Shawn Michaels’ ladde
Get Peter Gunn from Amazon.com
If you’re reading this, and live in the United States, you know what the Peter Gunn theme is. You’ve heard it played by your High School Band (or played it yourself), you’ve heard it while playing Spy Hunter, or in a few movies. If say you haven’t heard the Peter Gunn theme before, then you’re probably lying. However, if you said you hadn’t watched Peter Gunn, I’d probably believe you. For a TV series with one of the memorable themes in the history of television,
Get Bones: Season 1 from Amazon.com
I enjoy mysteries. I read Sherlock Holmes novels as a kid. I read pulp detective novels and Agatha Christie novels as a teen. As a grown up I’ve found myself drawn to the current trend of forensic detective TV series, like CSI on CBS. After missing the boat early on, I’ve picked up the first season of Bones, and have given it a watch.
The show focuses on Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (played by Emily Deschanel), a woman with a doctorate in Forensic Anthropo
Get Season 3 of Bones from Amazon.com
Crime Dramas tend to be serialized, unless they’re not. Yes, that sounds incredibly silly, but it’s generally true. The majority of crime dramas, whether of the soap opera variety or the serialized drama take the Dragnet/Law & Order tack of one case per episode, and it’s wrapped up at the end. Starting in the late 90s we finally started seeing much more serialized procedurals which would stretch a case out over several episodes, to a whole season, to ev
Get Season 2 from Bones from Amazon.com
As you may have gathered from my review of the first season, I liked the start of this. I liked the Forensic Anthropologist take on the Science Detective show. Â I liked the characters, and I liked the stories in the show. Now I’ve watched Season 2, and the show has slightly changed it’s focus, to a certain extent. Specifically, in this season the focus has changed from being heavily based around the murders, with the character focused side plots orbiting
It’s been a while since I did a review of a music documentary – the last one that comes immediately to mind is a documentary review on the career of Pink Floyd. Well, this year is the year that the Beatles concept album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band has it’s 50th anniversary, and the BBC did a documentary on the album, which also broadcast on PBS, which is where I saw it.
In broad strokes, the documentary goes briefly into where The Beatles career was before the album came out, before
I have a lot of music on my computer. A lot of music. Currently, iTunes says that I have enough music to play for 8.9 days straight. Consequently, I like games that let me bring my music into the games in means that matter, by procedurally generating content based on my music, and I’ve purchased a lot of games that let me do this. I’m going to call these ?Custom Music Games?, because ?Music-Based Procedurally Generated Games? is clunky as well.
However, such games don’t lend themselves well to
The Final Fantasy Distant Worlds Concert series has a satellite series – A New World, with chamber music versions of Final Fantasy music. They came to PDX, and I have some thoughts on the concert.
Please support my Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/countzeroor
Member of The Console Xplosion Network: http://www.theconsolexplosion.com/
Watch my Live-Streams on http://twitch.tv/countzeroor/
Filed under: Video games, videos Tagged: classical music, concert, video, Video games
Affiliate Disclaimer: Retromags may earn a commission on purchases made through our affiliate links on Retromags.com and social media channels. As an Amazon & Ebay Associate, Retromags earns from qualifying purchases. Thank you for your continued support!
