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Not quite the Neverending Story
I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I was playing The Longest Journey - an entry of that oft-neglected genre of computer games, the point-and-click adventure. Following on from the purely text-based games which have been around for decades, the point-and-click games had their heyday in the 90s, most notably in the hands of LucasArts, with the ( Read more... ) -
Random media ramblings...
- SomethingAwful has a bunch of B-Movie-style poster spoofs which are well worth a look.Page 8 has the HP one, most of the rest are pretty good too.
- Apparently, Lost has been cancelled - in 2010 (well, assuming it doesn't happen soon, say, if the ratings keep falling). Three more 16-episode seasons - a hard limit which (together with the fact that ( Read more... )
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Movie misdirection...
And the "totally misleading trailer of the week" award goes to Bridge to Terabithia. Given the current cinematic drought, I was happy to catch a preview of something which showed every sign of being a cheap Narnia rip off. What I actually got was something rather better - a fine character piece with a few effects sequences along the way (whilst ( Read more... ) -
That's just taking the piss...
Apparently last time I went to lush, I forgot the golden rule of bath bombs - Never get the yellow ones. Also, the rainbow drops really don't dissolve in bath-water. They just go kinda goopy. Yech.
In other news, at some time in the not too distant past, IMDb have finally added my Most Wanted Feature. The "Movie Connections" section was never ( Read more... ) -
Because I can...
Yes, I am posting to LJ from my Wii. l never did get around to doing it from the PSP because entering text is way too painful whereas this is point and click, plus it has auto-complete. For my next trick: Wiimail-to-LJ. Or not. -
OMGWIIBBQ!
OK, after waiting this long, I don't think I will barbecue it, but still...
Thanks to this site, I got notified the minute Amazon got some more Wiis in stock and had the order placed immediately. Now I just have to wait for it to turn up... -
Warm and fuzzy...
So, I went to see Hot Fuzz today, another excellent piece of it's-not-quite-a-spoof-it's-just-really-funny cinema from the team behind Shaun of the Dead and the ultimate fanboy sitcom, Spaced. The gentle comedy of the first half does a great job of setting up the full-on (albeit slightly silly) action movie second half. Pegg and Frost are on form ( Read more... ) -
Hello, Murphy...
Well, I'm back ( Read more... ) -
PSA
Right, that's it, I've had enough. I'm off to the Caribbean to become a pirate.
Failing that, sitting on the beach drinking rum for eight days sounds like a pretty good plan... -
All my money are belong to Apple...
On a scale of 0-10, how much do I want one of theseThat would be, oooh, at least a 12. I was literally drooling while I looked through the demos on the Apple website. iPhone rumours have been floating around for years, but the reality actually manages to top the hype (assuming that reality lives up to the demos). Obviously there are some unanswered ( Read more... )