Reviews
Review: Secret Agent AKA Danger Man: The Complete Collection
Secret Agent AKA Danger Man: The Complete Collection Stuart Burge and Charles Crichton A&E Street: 02.27 For those that love James Bond and can’t get enough of him, this megaset is for you. Patrick McGoohan aka John Drake is a secret agent for “Her Majesty.” Foreseeing other great television shows such as Magnum PI and
Review: McLuhan’s Wake
McLuhan’s Wake Kevin McMahon The Disinformation Series Street: 01.23 Marshall McLuhan became one of the most famous intellectuals of the twentieth century with books such as The Mechanical Bride and Understanding Media. His theories of media’s effects on culture were of huge significance in his own time, and have only grown in importance since his
Review: I’m Keith Hernandez
I’m Keith Hernandez Rob Perri Self-Released Street: 01.07 Let me just get this out of the way first: Rob Perri is a genius. He has combined the likes of Being John Malcovich with 99 Tribulations to create a short, sweet and to the point look at, when T-shirts say the man, the legend, Keith Hernandez.
Review: Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven
Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven The First Annual Camp Out Live MVD Visual Street: 01.30 Concert films are usually a let down. Reunion tours are also generally a drag, especially when fans that spent their whole adolescence singing along with a band have to witness their older and uninspired heroes fuck up the chorus to
Review: Benny Hill: The Hill’s Angel Years
Benny Hill: The Hill’s Angel Years Benny Hill, Dennis Kirkland A&E TV Street: 01.06 England’s Benny Hill became a huge hit on American TV in the 70s and 80s. His fast-motion silent skits were choreographed well enough to make Charlie Chaplin one of his biggest fans, and his misogynist humor was raunchy enough (for its
Review: The Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion Bethesda Reviewed On: PC/XBox 360/PS3 Street: 03.06 Travel back to the time of wizards, goblins, sword fights and portals to hell (apparently they used to be everywhere) with Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls IV, the highly anticipated follow-up to their breakthrough game, Morrowind. Now travel forward in time by playing this
Review: Okami
Okami Clover Studios Reviewed On: PS2 Street: 09.06 It seems as though many video game developers today have forgotten that there’s only one rule when making a new game. The game should be fun to play. These days many game developers look at games that have been successful and rip them off. However, sometimes the
Review: Metal Gear Solid; Portable Ops
Metal Gear Solid; Portable Ops Konami Reviewed On: PSP Street: 12.06 There’s a fair amount of gamers out there who will tell you that Metal Gear Solid (MGS) III was the greatest video game ever. Of course this is a matter of opinion, but one thing is certain, after III’s follow up with MGS: Snake
Review: Escape From Special
Escape From Special Miss Lasko-Gross Fantagraphic Books Street: 03.14 We have all been there and done that concerning our high school days; we hated them and they hated us and to have another coming-of-age book of any kind rehashing that theme of “growing up” and toughing it seems like one too many. But what we
Review: Beasts!
Beasts! Various Fantagraphics Books Street: 01.31 This beautifully bound and illustrated book fills its pages with the prompt that each artist capture a creature from mythological or folkloric storytelling; the cultural entities—”still thriving or extinct”—that fill our closets and deep recesses of our minds. The product is outstanding in its anecdotal accounts of beast history,