Sometimes we have highfalutin notions about what we expect from our cinema. We expect that each film will give us a deep introspective into human nature, revealing the depths of our humanity giving us insights into the meaning of life. We want to drink red wine, eat cheese and discuss with our friends that one part that really made us …
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Samsung Fascinate Review: Did Samsung Save the Best For Last?
The release of the Fascinate this week on Verizon marks the fourth and final Android-powered Galaxy S smartphone from Samsung in the US this year. Much like its brethren on T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint, the Fascinate shares the same basic hardware specs with slight modifications here and there, including an LED flash for the 5-megapixel …
Samsung Epic 4G Review: Premium Device, Premium Price
The Samsung Epic 4G marks Sprint’s second 4G-capable Android handset and the first one with a slide-out hardware keyboard. The phone features a 4-inch, 800×480 Super AMOLED screen, Android 2.1, rear-facing 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, front-facing VGA camera, 1GHz processor, and 16GB of storage which is expandable to 32GB via …
Shooting Blanks: Mafia II Review
Mafia II
Publisher: 2K Games
Developer: 2K Czech
Systems it’s available on: Xbox 360, PS3
ESRB rating: M for Mature
System reviewed on: PS3
Ambition doesn’t make a good game. Great production values do not make a good game. Not by themselves they don’t. It seems like a continually hard lesson to learn as console cycles roll …
An Early Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Spoilers ahead.
Maybe it was the rain or complete boredom that drove me to watch the last few Harry Potter films on demand but I’m now eagerly awaiting the release of the last two films in the series. Which is why we’re sharing an early review of the film by a couple of lucky moviegoers in Chicago who were invited to a test …
Madden NFL 11 Review: Roster Update or Worthwhile Purchase?
Madden NFL 11
EA Sports
Developer: Tiburon
PS3, Xbox 360
ESRB rating: E for Everyone
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
EA Sports’ Madden franchise has locked down an exclusive agreement with the National Football League to be the only console-based video game to feature real teams and players. As such, the series has virtually no …
BlackBerry Torch Review: Too Little Too Late?
To say that Google and Apple have left RIM in the dust is a bit of an understatement. While RIM has the lion’s share of the smartphone market in the U.S., that number is beginning to decline while Android’s and Apple’s continue to grow each quarter.
RIM has always been focused on the enterprise side and only marginally dabbled …
Maybe If You Knew the Science… : Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World The Game Review
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Chengdu & Ubisoft Montreal
Systems it’s available on: Playstation 3 (available on Xbox 360 on August 25th)
ESRB rating: T for Teen
System reviewed on: Playstation 3
By now, we all know the basics of Scott Pilgrim: the titular clueless 23 year-old plays …
Singularity: Die You Commie Ghost Mutants Die
Here’s my pet peeve about video games set in Russia. So you know that letter they always use as an R, to make things look all Russian? This one — Я?
That is not an R. It is pronounced “ya.” So if you know any Russian, and you’re playing a game like Singulaяity, set on the secret island of Katoяga, it starts to get on your …
Philips Norelco Announces Deluxe ‘SensoTouch 3D’ Electric Razors
I don’t like to shave. I work from home, which doesn’t help matters much, and find shaving to be too time consuming to make it worth the daily ritual that so many men undertake. So you’d think I have no interest in electric razors, when the fact of the matter is that I’m constantly on the lookout for new shaving technologies that can …
Review: The Sticky Spiraling Dream World of Inception
Grade: A+
A couple weeks ago, I published my spoiler-free first take on Inception. It was positive. A rave. A bubbly exclamation that was openly questioned out there by other media outlets. But I stand by every word.
In fact, the more I think about it, the richer this tapestry becomes.
I have since spoken to several people about …
The Freaks Come Out at Night: Crackdown 2 Review
Crackdown 2
Publisher: Microsoft
Developer: Ruffian Games
Systems it’s available on: Xbox 360
ESRB rating: T for Teen
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
Pacific City’s really gone to hell. It was just a few years ago that legions of players assumed the roles of genetically-grown crimefighting Agents deployed to take out the gangs who …