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Always Bet on Duke

I never gave up hope. Not for a single moment.

When Duke Nukem Forever comes out in what is slated so far to be “sometime in 2011,” I reckon that will have been a staggering 14 years between announcement and delivery. I distinctly remember one exciting afternoon when my friend ran up to me breathless in [...]

Summer’s Over

Film pundits like to remark how Hollywood only ever cares about the summer, namely that lovely May to July block (with August reserved as the dumping ground for the dregs),  where every film worth half a damn to the average chap will be released. The autumn months play host to the more sophisticated fare, and [...]

Untitled and Undefined

“Gamer” is just one word that shouldn’t be used
“The point I’m trying to reach is that playing games, as entertaining and fascinating and beneficial as it might be, is just something people do, not something they should be defined by. People don’t call themselves moviegoers, or TV watchers, or book readers. That’s the job of [...]

“Burden not Columbia with your chaff!”

So it’s Rapture. In the sky. Half a century earlier. With an uncannily Pixar-esque art style. Bother Scott Pilgrim and his hyper stylized, vulgar, ADD nonsense! The following two minute trailer was the most exciting film I’ve seen since Avatar (or Inception, if I’m feeling generous).

News like this is why I don’t normally take breaks [...]

Now off Twitter

I’ve deactivated my Twitter account. There’s no particular reason for doing this, really. I just decided that since I wasn’t using it and had no serious interest in using it in the first place, there was no point in having it.

I took the advice of the “Are you absolutely certain you want to destroy me?” [...]