Wall-E is one of those movies where, from the moment the teaser hit theaters, I fell in love with it instantly. There was just something magical about this cute little emoting robot developing a a personality and roaming around a deserted planet exploring his curiosity. With every new clip that showed up on the internet, I fell even more in love with this film. Within no time, it became my most anticipated film  of the year. Now that it’s out and I’ve seen it, the question remains whether or not it lived up to my hopes and expectations.

When I walked out of the theater Saturday afternoon, I was torn between being completely in love with this movie and being somewhat unimpressed. The problem with Wall-E is that it suffers from ‘we’re trying to say something’ syndrome. Click here to read more »

The film Jumper, based on the novel by Steven Gould, begins with the story of a young boy who discovers he has the ability to teleport. Having grown up in a broken home where his mother ran way at age five and his father was, at the very least, verbally abusive, Young David Rice uses his new found ability to run away from home and make a better life for himself. With the power to go anywhere and do anything, his new life seems almost perfect until he learns about the war between the Jumpers and the Paladins.

As it turns out, David isn’t the only one with the power to teleport. Unbeknownst to him, a group of religious zealots who believe that ‘only God should have the power to be everywhere’ have been systematically tracking and hunting down the Jumpers for years. Fortunately for David, he runs across another Jumper named Griffin, Click here to read more »

Earlier tonight as the rest of the world sat down to watch ‘The Big Game’, I sat down with a group of my friends to play a little game called Munchkin. This amazingly fun and clever card game, created by Steve Jackson, is a complete spoof on the role-playing game genre. The word ‘Munchkin’ itself is actually a gaming term referring to a player in a non-competitive game who plays all out in a overly competitive way. This game not only encourages this once annoying behavior, but makes it the sole element of the game play experience. As the tag line states,  your main objective is to “Kill the Monsters. Steal the Treasure. [and] Stab Your Buddy”.

Though seemingly daunting at first, the rules to the game are relatively simple. Flip over a card and if it’s a monster, you fight it. Click here to read more »

Cloverfield follows a small group of New Yorkers trying to survive as their city is laid to waste by a giant monster. What sets Cloverfield apart from other monster movies is that the entire thing is told from the point of view of a hand-held camera carried by one of the characters. The premise being that a camera was found after the events and you are playing it back to understand what happened. The film even goes as far as to open with color bars, time code, and a slate claiming the tape as property of the government.

From the word “play”, this films is absolutely amazing. Never once breaking away from it’s premise, you completely feel like you’re watching events that actually took place. There are no establishing shots or Click here to read more »

Have you ever been driving in your car, listening to the radio, or watching a movie and heard a song you really liked, but had no clue what the artist or song title was? Well, if you had a jailbroken iPhone you wouldn’t have to wonder. Thanks to a new iPhone application released today called “Listen”, it would only take about 5 seconds to figure it out.

The idea of the application is simple. Hear a song that you’d like identified, launch the application and hold your phone up to the audio source, a little abracadabra, and out pops the track information for the playing song.

I’ve heard of similar services offered in other phones, but this if the first time I’ve had the opportunity to see it in action. I’ve tested it out on a few tracks and it works really well. Though I don’t have a whole lot of use for the service, it is pretty fun to play around with. Click here to read more »