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Movie Review — ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ lacks spark
Features Comments Mar 07, 2013 4:31pmIt looks like a blockbuster. It feels like a blockbuster. On the set, it probably even smelled like a blockbuster.
But for long stretches, “Jack the Giant Slayer” is an awful lot of fee, fi...
Game Dork — The Terrorists Lose: Here’s a game where you decapitate hordes of evil ninjas
Features Comments Feb 23, 2013 7:01amIn the new game (hilariously subtitled) “Metal Gear Revengeance,” you kill a lot of evil people in amazingly bloody, vivisection ways. To justify this bloodlust, the game has created terrorists so...
Movie Review — ‘Snitch’
Features Comments Feb 22, 2013 7:00amHe’s made a career out of portraying over-the-top characters, ranging from an ancient Egyptian king to the Tooth Fairy. But in “Snitch,” Dwayne Johnson is finally stymied by his most mundane role...
‘Sly’ Arguments — So you think video games lead to violence?
Features Comments Feb 16, 2013 7:01amThis year, political opportunists have tried to turn video games into the scapegoat culprit for humankind’s violent tendencies.
To those of us gamers who value a healthy prefrontal cortex,...
Movie Review — Paranormal teen romance ‘Beautiful Creatures’ better than it needs to be
Features Comments Feb 15, 2013 9:11pmIt seems almost quaint that there was a time when young lovers in the movies could be kept apart simply because one of them came from the wrong side of the tracks, practiced a different religion...
Game Dork — ‘Anarchy Reigns’ wants you to beat up people with your bionic arms
Features Comments Feb 08, 2013 10:49amA conservative sent me a nasty email, because I pointed out in a previous column that “DMC: Devil May Cry” attacks corporate culture and Fox News.
Hey, political people: I don’t create these...
Game Dork — Memories of Mom
Features Comments Jan 26, 2013 7:00amMy heart hurts. My mom died.
This may seem like a funny place to eulogize my mom — a video game column — but I wouldn’t exist here on this page without her.
I remember the only video...
Movie Review — ‘Parker’ boasts strong cast, but plot fails to deliver
Features Comments Jan 25, 2013 8:03pmIt’s taken more than 50 years to bring Donald E. Westlake’s master thief Parker to the big screen in all his glory.
Too bad everyone involved couldn’t have devoted another couple of weeks to...
Letters to Santa
Features Comments Dec 19, 2012 6:30pmDear Santa,
Is the north polle rill. I want ten baby Alife dipers. I want a bike with a hellmit. I want a nuthr tea set. I want some cookies. I will leav some cookies for you.
Emily...
Letters to Santa
Features Comments Dec 12, 2012 4:04pmWhy can’t we just drink hot chocolate? Chocolate is good! I will take whatever you can give me. I love you Santa. I want a rake so I can rake my garden, a shobel, a red rusty tractor and I want a...