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There’s something a bit half-baked about Dollhouse, the new science fiction series from total genius Joss Whedon. But I can’t tell if it’s a problem with the show, or just an artifact arising from the choppy way the trailer has been cut together. They’re certainly leaning on the sex pretty heavily — do these “actives” (let’s roll …

Shockin’ bloggin’ performance by yrs truly lately. Many apologies. I blame Canada, where I currently am. I came here to speak at a conference, something that I understand many people do frequently; I was doing it basically for the first time. When you go up on stage they clip a wireless mike on you and give you a little gadget that you …

INT. TONY STARK’S LIMO – DAY

TONY STARK: Pull over… right here.
DRIVER: Where?
TONY STARK: At Burger King.
DRIVER: Are you serious?
TONY STARK: Didn’t you hear me say the first thing I wanted after being tortured in the desert by terrorists for three months was a real American cheeseburger?
DRIVER: Yeah, sure… but Burger …

Bioshock is going to be a movie, apparently. Gore Verbinski (who did The Ring and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies) is supposed to direct. Roll saving throw vs. Hollywood soullessness. Wonder how casting will play out — I always thought Atlas sounded like Ewan Macgregor. And I’m looking forward to Keira Knightley saying, “I’m so …

They’re below. In theory anyway. The Yahoomatic streaming looks pretty wonky.

This movie is turning out to be extremely divisive — I’m seeing pans and raves all over the mediaverse. Personally I loved it and walked out of the screening thinking I’d seen a monster hit. Anybody else seen it?

Mostly today I’m trying to avoid listening to bad buzz about Indy 4lalalalalalalalala I can’t hear you.

I’m doing this while also trying to avoid looking at this piece in the New York Times Style section about steampunk fashion. Not that there isn’t a lot of useful information in there, but I do miss the days when steampunk was a …

I’m glad somebody figured it out, because a lot of people were starting to wonder. I’ve always liked the crew that did Star Wreck. Now they’ve done something else: Iron Sky. Not a Star Trek job, not a parody, this is original IP. The premise appears to be that Nazis conquered the moon in 1945; now (meaning 2018) they’re going to come back …

I’ve never been way into the GTA series. I’ve been medium-into it from time to time. I played Vice City and San Andreas, but never to state of total unambiguous completion. The sad truth is, I am one of those gamers people complain about, who are totally focused on combat simulation, and there are way way better pure combat simulators …

It’s been twenty-three hours since 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, when Grand Theft Auto IV hit the streets of Los Angeles. My neck is stiff. My wife is mad. My dog is swollen with urine. But after almost a day of Liberty City action, one thing is clear:

Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer blows Halo 3 multiplayer away.

Will the world …

A lot of movies these days are “From The Guys Who Brought You” some other movie. Of course, “From The Guys Who Brought You” is a perfectly bland way of saying — if you liked Superbad, you’ll like Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I did like Superbad, and I did like Forgetting Sarah Marshall. However, this dumb marketing phrase has inflicted …

He is. Or didn’t we know this already? I guess it wasn’t official before. And it is now.

Good news, right? In a way it would have been cool to have Jackson do the whole series — there would have been that consistency in tone throughout all the movies. But spending that much time in Jackson’s head was starting to feel a bit …