Month: July 2007
Review: Gothic Vampires From Hell
Gothic Vampires From Hell Fred Austin and Rob Walker Cleopatra Street: 05.15 Getting new material to review is sometimes like waiting to be kicked in the penis. You realize it has large potential for pain, but you also know you have to get through it one way or another. When this movie was placed into
Review: The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips U.F.O.s at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City Warner Bros. Street: 07.07 Fans have been waiting a long time for this; a concert DVD that lives up to the unique live The Flaming Lips experience. The changes the Lips have undergone over the years don’t constitute a reinvention of style,
Review: Black Test Car
Black Test Car Yasuzo Masumura Fantoma Street: 05.22 The Fast and the Furious, Red Line, Days of Thunder… all these movies deal in one form or another with cars and racing them. Most of the time, these movies involve babes with tons of cleavage, outrageous, impossible cars and the people who drive them. Interestingly, Black
Review: Black
Black Criterion Games Reviewed On: PS2/XBox Street: 02.28.06 I’ve heard a lot of people complain about this game. No story, moronic enemies, claustrophobic maps etc. Here’s what I say to them: this game kicks ass. I’m not saying that they are wrong; in fact, this game does have a sitcom-thin plot line and the enemies
Review: Heatseeker
Heatseeker Codemasters Reviewed On: PS2 Street: 05.07 When I was 12-years-old I saved and saved and bought a game called Flight Simulator for my Commodore 64 computer. It took 15 minutes to load, consisted of nothing more that a really bad airplane motor noise and some green lines and ran at about two frames per
Review: Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II Red Octane Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Street: 04.03 It seems I can’t mention my fondness for video games to anyone these days without getting a sermon on the marvels of the Guitar Hero series. I’ll confess that the success of these games and my own hobby of playing real guitars instilled in
Review: Percy Gloom
Percy Gloom Cathy Malkasian Fantagraphics Books Street: 06.21 Percy Gloom was written by Cathy Malkasian whose previous work as an animator includes the shows Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys Movie. Her leap from animation to the graphic novel form (especially from those quirky kids’ shows) is not a far cry from her previous work. Percy
Review: House
House Josh Simmons Fantagraphics Books Street: 03.07 House eerily recalls Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, not so much in its complex storytelling but in its scary incompleteness. House leaves more questions open then it answers. The story is about a mansion three kids find in the woods that they decide to go exploring in.
Review: MOME
MOME Various Artists Fantagraphics Books Street: 05.22 MOME follows in the fine footsteps of other anthologies and quarterlies of this century (ex. McSweeney’s) by showcasing first-rate up-and-coming artists, writers, etc. The comics represented here range from self-conscious absurd dream narratives to the surreal pop panel to an extended meditation on depression and comic book creators.