Quentin Tarantino got movie geeks buzzing last week when this clip of him listing his 20 favorite films since 1992 (the year his first film was released) popped up. Of the 11 films on his list that I've seen, I'm with him on Boogie Nights and Fight Club while I still think Battle Royale and Shaun of the Dead are overrated. But of course, lists are ( Read more... )

Sigh.

Harmonix revealed that it will cost $16.98 to purchase the remainder of Abbey Road for use in The Beatles: Rock Band. Let's break this down, shall we? While that's roughly the standard cost for a full album in Rock Band, The Beatles game already includes 5 tracks from Abbey Road (maybe 6 if that rumor about "The End" pans out). With 12 (or 11 ( Read more... )

The full(?) song list of The Beatles: Rock Band was leaked today and despite my initial skepticism that a mere 40-ish songs could do The Beatles' catalog justice, color me impressed at the wise selections. And if you still think they came up short, the remaining tracks from Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band have ( Read more... )

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

As a film buff with an 80s fetish, I was saddened to hear of the passing of writer-director John Hughes. I once read a review of Fanboy Bebop on someone's blog that said it was like a John Hughes movie set at an anime convention. I wish it lived up to that ( Read more... )

There is nothing that can't be improved by the voice of GOB.

Walking On A Dream by Empire of the Sun is the best album I've heard in a long, long time. That is all.

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Reading this synopsis of TF2 was about as mind-numbing as sitting through the first movie was, but at least it only took a few minutes.

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php

Michael Bay's Transformers is one of the worst films I have ever suffered through. I found it abrasive, interminable, soulless, joyless, senseless, stupid, insulting, aggressively unfunny, completely devoid of anything recognizably human and frankly painful to endure. I saw it with some close friends who didn't think it was that bad. Guys, I love ( Read more... )

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...so watch this clip from some Japanese show trying to gauge the lifting strength of cats.

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