WTF SCEI Reviewed On: PSP Street: 10.17 Have you ever wanted to be a worker in a Third World labor market? Does the term ‘sweat shop’ make you tingle? Does pointless repetition really melt your butter? If you answered yes to any of these questions then not only do you have a problem, but I
Prey Human Head Studios Reviewed On: XBox 360 / PC Street: 07.11 It seems that sci-fi first person shooter (fps) games are everywhere these days. Games like Halo, Half Life and Doom (and all of their sequels) have established this genre as big money for game developers and guaranteed plenty of mediocre rip offs for gamers.
Changing Times Andre Techine Koch Lorber Films Street: 10.03 Changing Times is a French romantic drama starring Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve. What’s the matter, still not convinced you should see it? Depardieu stars as a Parisian businessman who has traveled to Algeria where he finds Deneuve, an old flame now married to a doctor.
Alfred Steiglitz, Dorthea Lange, Julie Margaret Cameron, Andre Kertesz Phaidon Press Street: 09.01 For all of you hipsters who have decided that the camera you wear as an accessory actually can be a wonderful tool to create some amazing artwork, well, that’s step one. Step two, learn how to actually operate it and then develop
Vice City Stories Rockstar Leeds Reviewed On: PSP Street: 10.31 The Grand Theft Auto series started way back in 1998 and has since then exploded with seven more titles under the GTA banner. It was with GTA III in 2001 that Rockstar established themselves as pioneers for modern video gaming. Vice City Stories is built
Heart of Darkness: the Vietnam War Chronicles 1945-1975 Aaron Ulrich Koch Vision Street: 09.05 The Vietnam War was the longest US military conflict in history. As such, Koch Vision has done a great job of painstakingly chronicling the conflict from its aggressive beginnings to its ambiguous long haul. Over five hours of main documentary footage
Terrorstorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism Alex Jones Disinformation Street: 10.31 Terrorstorm has been hailed as the “Matrix of Truth” and other such drivel from like-minded liberal reviewers. While Terrorstorm does a great job of chronicling, logically, the apprehensions of the left, it fails at making a balanced view of terror; like its counterpoint,
Greg The Bunny: Best of the Film Parodies Spencer Chinoy IFC/Shout! Factory Street: 10.24 Is the mere concept of foul-mouthed puppets funny? If you’ve ever seen Meet the Feebles, you know that it takes a few venereal diseases, a shit-eating fly and a gun-yielding hippo to lift that concept off the ground. When Greg the
Wonder Showzen Season II Augenblick Studios MTV Home Entertainment Street: 10.10 The idea to use puppets as the faceplate for social commentary is not a new idea by any means. Even the Muppets, in their Jim Henderson soaked sub-world, had things to say about social structure and sexual roles (i.e., independent Miss Piggy chasing down
The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower Simon Brook Koch Vision Street: 10.03 I’ve been waiting for my chance to use superfluous French euphemisms in my reviews. Perhaps this, a critique of a docu-drama about the Eiffel Tower, is the right time to get my joie de vivre on. Do you know Gustave Eiffel’s raison
Nina Blag Dahlia Scapegoat Publishing Street: 08.01.06 Blag Dahlia is one of those notorious figures in punk rock that many people idolize for the same reasons that others abhor him. As the front man of The Dwarves, Blag has made a career out of shocking audiences for more than twenty years. With his second novel,
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