Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on January 19th, 2007
Yes, its coming. And yes, it plays both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs, although apparently for the HD-DVD's you can only watch the movie - no menu access just yet.
Posted in: Dare to Play the Game, News and Opinions by Michael Durr on January 17th, 2007
A Symphony not so small, too much Wii Wii, and a just right Morgan Webb - Welcome to the column that makes the playoffs every time only to miss the bus to the big dance known as Dare to Play the Game.
Welcome to another edition of Dare to Play the Game. Well another what could have been year if you are an Eagles fan. True, with McNabb out most didn’t expect us to make the playoffs. But we did, and truth be told, the 2nd and 3rd quarter of the Saints game we were in contro...
Posted in: Highly Defined, News and Opinions by Archive Authors on January 15th, 2007
This may take a little while.
So did we enjoy our thoughts and impressions of what CES 2007 held and brought? Well, let’s take a look at things that didn’t relate to Apple, shall we? First off, it appears the new color to speak of is purple. You’ve got word of the Warner Total Hi-Def disc, which is a dual format disc. The packaging is even a compromise too, with the HD DVD red on one side, and the Blu-ray blue on the other. It costs slightly more than a HD/SD combo, but does certainly provide for some inter...
Posted in: Brain Blasters, News and Opinions by David Annandale on January 12th, 2007
Greatness can be aspired to. Its achievement can be the driving goal behind a film. But its realization comes down so often to the kinds of intangibles that frustrate efforts to control or create. And this applies to greatness whether the work is good or not. That’s right, today, we’re musing about greatness in the negative (but therefore curiously positive sense): the films that are so bad they’re great.
I don’t think anything more clearly illustrates the difficulty in reaching this special kind of greatne...
Posted in: Dare to Play the Game, News and Opinions by Michael Durr on January 10th, 2007
PS3 Shipping Tomfoolery, MsPacman goes “Live”, & 360 Gets a Hero - Welcome to the column that only wants to be dugg so Morgan Webb can file a restraining order known as Dare to Play the Game.
Welcome to another edition of Dare to Play the Game. New and improved with more digging than that time I was with this Japanese girl and we had shovels and well I was 5 years old, you can figure out the rest. Anyhow, I am actually in a decent mood for once. A quite jovial mood even...
Posted in: Highly Defined, News and Opinions by Archive Authors on January 8th, 2007
What kind of oil is used on stripper poles again?
OK, this round of activity should be pretty bland, as all the rage and anticipation is saved for the coming days, as CES has just started (or about to start) as you’re reading this. Lots of announcements are forthcoming, with the speculation apparently that Blu-Ray will be the king of new news, with many new releases and perhaps the revelation of a second-generation Samsung player. The HD-DVD camp is a mystery at this point, but we’ll have a roundup and spec...
Posted in: Brain Blasters, News and Opinions by David Annandale on January 5th, 2007
William Peter Blatty might seem a slightly odd candidate for discussion in this space. After all, he wrote and produced The Exorcist, whose enormous mainstream success makes it rather suspect as a cult film. Ditto for another of Blatty’s screenplays: A Shot in the Dark, which is arguably the best of the Pink Panther movies. But as a director, ah, there we start getting closer to cult status. He has made two films. The Exorcist III (1990) is his best-known effort, and is debatably a cult movie. Ve...
Posted in: Dare to Play the Game, News and Opinions by Michael Durr on January 3rd, 2007
New Columns, Gamers do make money & Guitars for everyone - Welcome to the Busted Old Jalopy that got a new fender this year known as Dare to Play the Game.
Welcome to another edition of Dare to Play the Game. It is a brand new year, and yes your co-host and wonderful person spent new years by himself. Don't weep too much, it was mostly my own doing. I could have gone to my parents but didn't want to drive and the thought of spending new years with my parents was actually...
Posted in: Highly Defined, News and Opinions by Archive Authors on January 1st, 2007
Give a brutha some slack, OK?
So in between a busy daytime job that included being in the office for 19 hours of a 24 hour day and the holiday week, things have been a little busy at the casa de Keefer. Besides, everyone’s bracing themselves for the CES show next week and the fun stuff to come from it, right? So let’s take a look at those next-gen discs that have made this particular reviewer stand up and smile. Oh, and as far as the lack of Blu love here, if someone wants to spring for a player for me, fee...
Posted in: Brain Blasters, News and Opinions by David Annandale on December 30th, 2006
The serial is an extinct form of movie-going experience. Right up to the fifties, your movie ticket got you not only the main feature, a B-feature, cartoons, a newsreel and other shorts, but an episode of a serial. Usually running 12 or 15 chapters, the serial would unspool in 15-20-minute units, each ending in a cliffhanger (often quite literally so, with the hero or heroine plunging off a cliff in a runaway car, for instance). George Lucas pays tribute to the serials in his Star Wars films, which begin with ...
