BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: KadokawaMSRP: $29.98RATED: Various The Kadokawa name umbrellas over a vast media empire in Japan, including comics, movies, and books. As with any large publishing house, there’s bound to be quite a bit of chaff around the gems. The gems might reasonably include the Gamera films, or the Zatoichi series. … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: HBO Home VideoMSRP: $29.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 256 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES:o Available Subtitles: Spanish, French o Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) o The complete four-part documentary on three discs o Commentary by director Spike Lee o "Next Movement: Act IV": a 105-minute epilogue featuring … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Home VideoMSRP: $27.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 106 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:o Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French o Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) o Commentary by writer-director Michel Gondry, Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Sacha Bourdo o The Making of The Science of Sleep o Featurette on Lauri Faggioni, … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: Turner Home EntertainmentMSRP: $19.98 RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 280 minutesSPECIAL FEATURES: • Commentary by co-creator Duncan Rouleau and others on "Secrets"• Ben 10 drawing lesson• Sneak peek of what’s to come• Collector posterThe Pitch It’s what Ultraman would be if he were a space bug, or a space diamond guy, … Continue reading
House lost me this season with the weak-ass way they ended out of the David Morse storyline, which took months of pressure, tension (“Good thing you failed to become a mom, because you suck at it!” never gets old) and the possibility of real change for Greg House and restored the status quo with a … Continue reading
IGN is reporting that Japanese Xbox 360 owners can now access free downloads for the RPG Blue Dragon. The interesting thing is that instead of being downloads of the "new item" or "new quest" variety, these offer two new difficulty levels for the campaign, as well as an option to import characters from a completed … Continue reading
There’s a single image that inspires me to submit to further Star Wars punishment. It’s not even an image from in-game. It’s a piece of concept art, which is probably even more misleading than the doctored screenshots often used to advertise games. It’s this image over there to the right. You can see the entire … Continue reading
It was with a heavy heart that we learned earlier this year that Capcom was shutting the doors on Clover Studios, the development house responsible for great games such as Okami and Viewtiful Joe, as well as oddities like God Hand. We sometimes forget, though, that "shutting the doors" in studio-speak isn’t equivalent to "shutting … Continue reading
When THUD reported on the March 5th premiere date for the NBC I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-The Departed crime drama The Black Donnellys, there was a lot of buzz about how the announcement didn’t come with a return date for the show it was replacing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. At the time, I said that we shouldn’t … Continue reading
Piggybacking on yesterday’s story about Bioware’s upcoming RPG Dragon Age comes this little tidbit of news about their other current project, Mass Effect. The Xbox 360 exclusive title is rumored to feature a main quest that will last somewhere between 20 and 30 hours. That’s a healthy length for this sort of game, especially considering … Continue reading