Modern Warfare II‘s Menu Design is the worst User Interface for any piece of technology I have ever seen in my life. I do not exaggerate when I say it made my blood boil, and it falls to the feet of Activision for hiring the much-maligned UI designer behind Hulu. To William Faler (Director of…
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Lost Review #107: ‘Quantum Break’ Represented the end of Xbox’s Productive Era
Developer: Remedy Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Release date: April 5th, 2016 Bias: First Xbox One game I’ve ever played. Loved the previous developer’s game, Alan Wake. Verdict: -2, -1, 0, +1 +2 / B Looking…
How Tom Cruise’s Career Made All the Right Moves
Defying the odds against Dinosaurs, Batman, James Cameron and even Marvel superheroes, Tom Cruise bet on himself and delivered; the highest-grossing domestic movie of the year, his career, and the highest-grossing film in Paramount Pictures’ history. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Screenplay and 4 other Academy Awards when that organization typically overlooks action…
Film Recommendations: The Best Films of 2022
10. Prey (20th Century Studios – Disney Plus) Director: Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) Going back to basics reversed the downslide this series was starting on after Shane Black’s misstep The Predator, and it performed so well at 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 71 on Metacritic. The only way it could have done better was…
A Record-Breaking 13 Different Visual F/X Studios Worked on Thor: Love & Thunder
13 different Special FX studios helped deliver Thor to New Asgard
Robbie to play Barbie. Gosling to play Ken. From the Writer of Marriage Story and the Director of Little Women.
Warner Bros. and Mattel production will shoot sometime in early 2020. This is a dream come true! Anyone will get onboard with a fun movie or a good story, especially when they adapt a well known property. But Warner Bros. went the extra mile taking someone from the indie scene with a reputation as an…
Think It’s Too Late To Get Into Squid Game? It Has Been Waiting For You.
Who would’ve thought 1 1/2 years into the pandemic we’d get another pandemic sized Netflix hit? Netflix sure hoped so. The most interesting thing so far about Squid Game is that it writes its premise from a character rather than plot approach. This alone lifts it above its predecessors and inspirations. Battle Royale chiefly among…
The Monster Inside: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Analysis
I was on assignment for JoBlo’s Arrow in the Head to edit a profile on Nightmare on Elm Street Actress Heather Langenkamp. I rented her movies from Classic Video (Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 3 and 7). Nightmare on Elm Street 2 and 3 happened to come in a two-pack. So after I completed the…
De Vil Wears Dior: Did Cruella Cure COVID Box-Office Blues?
By: William Hume After keeping its Dalmatians on a leash for over a year Disney finally let the dogs out with a $200 million fashion statement. A best in class crew came together to create an epic costume period piece. Early reactions are rapturous about the fashion and looking at the ensemble that put together…
Warner Bros. 2021 Movie Preview
Warner Bros. announced all of their 2021 movies would be released in theaters and on their streaming service HBO Max simultaneously. This has ruffled the feathers of a few of their partners and filmmakers. These films will debut on streaming for a limited time. Then after a 2-4 week period they will leave streaming and then…
Revisiting ‘Orange County’ 20 Years Later
Plot: An over-achieving high schooler’s life turns upside down when a guidance counsellor mistakenly sends in the wrong application to his only applied school: Stanford. One of those movies like “Ghost World” and “Legally Blonde” where the description can’t do justice to the experience. I heard some idle talk about how this movie was proof that…
Did Last of Us Part II Deserve Game of the Year? 2020: Gaming in Review
What does it say about the industry to reward The Last of Us Part II? Is it an endorsement of crunch? Back in March, Jason Schreier wrote about an industry problem that surrounds the game. Developer crunch. People working long hours, often unpaid overtime on games that are too long, are announced too early and…
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