James

When not tripping over words here, I engage in common nerdery: Movies, games, toys and art n'shit. Please feel free to fist my opinions in the comments. I trust you that way. On my radar for March 0-10 Games: Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Cave Story, Pokemon Soul Silver. Movies: Alice in Wonderland, Hot Tub Time Machine, She's Out of My League.

Feb 252010
Dear John

Dear Dear John,
Oh my Dear John. I sat on reviewing you for a couple of days so that my review wouldn’t consist of an incoherent stream of obscenities but even then, f-bombs will be dropped here.  I accepted viewing you as a sort of self-imposed “payment of dues” to this site because I have [...]

Feb 232010
Battlefield 1943 (A Non-FPS player's take)

So this isn’t to say I’ve never played a FPS (First Person Shooter) but I usually stay away from the genre. My background as a gamer has demanded that I not play them as Nintendo isn’t really friendly toward it. Since the Super Nintendo, my console ownership pattern has always been the current [...]

Feb 222010
Trailer: Get Him to the Greek

Oh, hey look. A trailer that sells itself without being a redband. Russell Brand reprises his role as Aldous Snow from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Check it out and tell us what you think, after the jump!

Feb 122010
No More Heroes (Wii)

For all those gamers out there, I know what you’re thinking. “Another one, really?  Why don’t you review fucking Super Mario Bros. while you’re at it?” Yeah I’m reviewing a game that has been analyzed to death since it came out back in ‘08. In fact, in its two year anniversary and [...]

Feb 052010
In the Loop

A reassurance: I’m not going to write about my political preferences as we’re all friends here…right?  Now, I don’t have a great mind for politics but I do attempt to keep up with them.  Generally, I run with the sentiment that the way government works is retarded.  The majority of those in office are mediocre [...]

Feb 012010
Porco Rosso

I dig Hayao Mizyazaki. If you don’t at least know of him, you owe it to yourself to track anything he’s done down if you call yourself a movie lover. Yeah, I know it’s anime and yeah, I know most anime is generally backward in most people’s minds but let me reassure you that Miyazaki’s [...]

Jan 222010
Sleeper Cell: Brick

After seeing 500 Days of Summer this past…uh…summer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt being generally bad ass in that movie reminded me that there was another movie of his that I had wanted to see. That movie was Brick, a film from ‘05 that I fully intended to go see in theatres but actually didn’t get around to [...]

Jan 192010
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

I generally like Terry Gilliam movies (except Tideland, fuck that movie) and had been looking forward to this movie since before Heath Ledger’s pill popping uh-oh. So when Dustin asked if I wanted to review this, I jumped at the chance.  This was for two reasons: I wanted to review something relatively current and I [...]