There may have been a stir over people wanting access to HBO shows off of cable before Game of Thrones, but the popular TV adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s excellent Song of Ice and Fire series has escalated the issue. Whereas some HBO shows are available through, say, iTunes, this past season of Game of [...]
We’ve ruminated at length about the rumoured Apple tablet computer, from the iPhone “dock” that is our Apple Annex, to the Macbook sibling that is our iTablet Excelsior. And with recent clues shoved across the blogosphere suggesting that an Apple tablet will indeed be announced sometime next year, we find ourselves once again justifying its [...]
Alan Moore of Watchmen fame made a comment recently that we spotted over at io9. The comment hearkens back to the point we tried to make about the upcoming G.I. Joe movie. Namely, that big-screen translations can’t always be authentic, because what works in a cartoon aimed at children doesn’t seem remotely realistic to adults [...]
Warning: spoilers below. Apocalypto is the touching tale of a Native American who changes colour. He comes from a small village that calls pigs “tapirs”, and hunts them with intricate booby traps that would make Indiana Jones jealous. The chameleone-sque Native American, named Jaguar Paw, is a practical joker, much like all the men in [...]
Why wouldn’t a child of the 80s find a modern G.I. Joe movie fantastic? Given the veritable success of the recent Transformers movie, a G.I. Joe movie seems like a logical move. That is, until one realizes that G.I. Joe is full of campy nonsense much like the Ewoks that heralded Star Wars’ demise. When [...]