Microsoft today announced that the Xbox 360 exclusive game “Halo 3” has officially become the biggest entertainment launch in history, garnering an estimated $170 million in sales in the United States alone in the first 24 hours. The Xbox 360 title beat previous records set by blockbuster theatrical releases like “Spider-man 3” and novels […]
Halo 3 Broken, Say It Aint So!
Poor Microsoft, they just can’t seem to have 100% success, their X-Box 360 has a reputation for failing, although I have an original 360 and it hasn’t failed me yet, but now the biggest game of the year Halo 3 which sold 1.5 million copies in one day is plagued with scratched disks. Responding to […]
David Hewlett Stargate Atlantis’ Cranky Canuck, Rodney Mckay Speaks!
Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with David Hewlett about the fourth season of Stargate: Atlantis, and the how the changes affect everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Rodney McKay. While we talked mostly about season four of Atlantis, we got into horror movie geek mode; talked a bit about Doctor Who’s impact on his life, and […]
TVonDVD: Grey’s Anatomy: Season Three; Brothers & Sisters: The Complete First Season; Bones: Season Two; Charmed: The Final Season; Heroes: Season 1; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1 & 2
In a TV season of serial overkill, among the few survivors were the continuing hit Grey’s Anatomy, the rookies Brothers & Sisters and the unlikely superheroes-in-plainclothes saga of NBC’s Heroes – a look at things might be if ordinary people around the world suddenly gained extraordinary abilities – and Charmed came to a much better […]
Fall TV Preview
If there’s one word that can be used to describe this season’s new TV series, it’s risky. Just as a start, we have a remake of a ’70s series reimagined as the story of a woman unsure of her place in the world [Bionic Woman], a musical mystery series [Viva Laughlin] and a series about […]
Resident Evil: Extinction: The Best of the Lot – Not That That’s Saying Much!
In the annals of movies adapted from video games, there are far worse examples to be found. Anyone remember Super Mario Brothers? Street fighter? DOOM? How about Bloodrayne? At least the Resident Evil movies attempt to integrate some plot and acting into the mix – and, let’s face it, none of the other movies have […]
Eastern Promises: Cronenberg Strikes Again!
David Cronenberg has a habit of approaching things from oblique angles. Whether it’s in a horror movie, like Videodrome, or an adaptaion of a graphic novel, like A History of Violence, he never quite delivers what we expect. In his latest film, Eastern Promises, he takes Steven Knight’s story of a nurse, a baby and […]
Sydney White Disappoints. Michelle Alexandria’s Review
While watching this film I couldn’t help but be pissed at the misleading advertising – what little that I’ve seen. Based on the trailer I thought this film would be sort of a modern day retailing of the Snow White story. I’m an absolute sucker for the teeny bopper fish out of water story. I […]
Resident Evil: Extinction Is Not Bad. Michelle Alexandria’s Review!
I’m a gamer and have covered the game industry for as long as I covered the film industry and just like the film industry I have a tendency to go my own way and be contrarian. When the Resident Evil series first launched and everyone raved about the game, I was the lone voice that […]
Hey, Whaaaa???? This isn’t EclipseMagazine!
Well, we finally got everything migrated off of Drupal, we broke a few eggs to do it. Namely, I accidentally deleted our Television Category, but TV coverage is such a time sensitive thing, that I’m not going to lose any sleep over the fact that we don’t have a review of the premiere of Battlestar […]
The Brave One: Foster, Howard Sizzle While Film Flounders!
It seems like it was just last week we were discussing revenge flicks… largely because it was! In a week’s time, we’ve moved from Death Sentence – which, in its lowbrow, exploitation, B-movie way said more about actions and consequences than anyone could have expected – to The Brave One, in which Neil Jordan takes […]