Despite what the marketing has displayed, the big revelation regarding Marion Cotillard’s character in Allied occurs almost halfway through the film. There’s plenty of palpable suspense during the first act, but knowing this information beforehand did damper any questions about…
10 great movie-inspired games (2000 – Present)
What do films like The DaVinci Code, Battleship, Saw and Harry Potter have in common? They were all “blessed” with their own video game adaptations, and all of them were mediocre at best. We live in a day and age where video games based on popular movies…
Read of the Week: ‘Summer of Yesterday’ by Gaby Triana
Back to the Future meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High when Haley’s summer vacation takes a turn for the retro in this totally rad romantic fantasy.Summer officially sucks. Thanks to a stupid seizure she had a few months earlier, Haley’s stuck going on…
Top 10 Back to School Movies
The mornings are getting cooler, Madden Football 2014 is out, and the streets smell like yellow bus gasoline and brown bag sandwiches. Whether we’re looking forward to it, or not, school is back in session. The time we spent sitting…
NYCC 2012: Astro-Cons
I got a chance to speak with Leo Caine, the writer and creator of Astro-Cons, which is a weekly web cartoon about the Department of Space, a federal agency that is basically run illogically. Speaking with Caine, here’s his…
NYCC 2012: What I’m Looking Forward to Seeing
October 11-14th marks the 2012 New York Comic Con at the Javits Center in New York City, and by golly ain’t I excited! (That really works if you pull that off with a 9 year old newsboy kind of accent).…