I think it’s no secret at this point that I love a good geeky cover song and some cosplay. YouTube is filled with musicians doing really cool things with video game, film, and TV show music and getting tons of…
This time on Play It, we take a look at a deceptively hard puzzle game with one major control mechanic. Howmonica is a gravity-based puzzle/platformer that does not want to make your life easy. You control a super cute cupcake-like…
Stoker is the most beautiful horror film I’ve seen since Three…Extremes (2004/2005 US). Coincidentally, it’s also the first Chan-wook Park film I’ve seen in theaters since Three…Extremes. Park knows how he wants to tell a story and he is not…
Down With Love is over the top, cheesy, and rife with cliches. That’s also the entire point of the film. Writers Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake crafted the skeleton of a throwback Rock Hudson/Doris Day battle of the sexes madcap…
As children, Burt and Anton were picked on mercilessly for being different. They formed a common bond over magic and grew up to become headliners in Las Vegas. They’ve grown to hate each other, but the success of the act…
The show is a bit more time-consuming than I anticipated. We have our first performance this afternoon and a lot of little things–hand props, set decorations, costume accessories, makeup/hair designs–need to be finalized. I’m going to be running around to…
I know posting has been lax this week. All I can say is that I’m in tech on a big musical again and barely sleeping. I should be in a better place to put up content every day again once…
The push goal I was most excited for when webcomic Penny Arcade went to Kickstarter to go ad-free for a year was their pitch for a new reality show as season four of Penny Arcade: The Series. They would invite…
I’m a big fan of L. Frank Baum’s Oz series. I’ve read all of the books multiple times and know the main stories and characters inside and out. There could be a dozen more great Oz films based on the…
Anita Sarkeesian’s new series of Feminist Frequency videos debuted on YouTube yesterday. Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is the Kickstarter project that the trolls didn’t want you to have because of misconceived notions of what feminist criticism actually is.…
A retirement home for professional musicians is in trouble. Almost all of the funds each year come from a huge benefit gala honoring Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday put on by the residents. However, the star performer is unable to perform this…
Last week on Face Off, the eight remaining contestants were paired up to create sci-fi werewolves. They had to use moons of other planets as a jumping off point for an original werewolf design. I’m all for carving a story…
Director Lee Daniels follows up his Academy Award-nominated genre-fluid coming of age masterpiece Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire with the not-Academy Award-nominated genre-fluid pulpy noir psychedelic coming of age crime thriller The Paperboy. The film opens with…
One of the few shining beacons of hope in the found footage deluge after Paranormal Activity was The Last Exorcism. The quiet, unassuming horror film follows a religious con-man who earned his living performing fake exorcisms. He meets his match…