After spending a long winter break back home in the central valley, nothing says, “Welcome back to San Francisco!” quite like spending a Friday night at the “Batman on Robin” homoerotic art show. Sure, not everyone ships Batman and Robin. That’s totally okay! But try to tell me slash fiction […]
BBC Sherlock Production Designer Gives Fans Something to Smile About
As a third week of BBC Sherlock set-building comes to a close, 221 Baker Street is starting to look more and more inhabitable. But our inside-man, production designer Arwel Wyn Jones, is no fool. While it’s true that fans will likely flail over any crumb of series 3 news offered […]
Realism and Motion Capture in Video Games
Technology keeps updating and innovating in the realm of video games. It’s become an expectation for graphics to improve, but do better graphics mean more realism? Since the transition to more powerful processors and graphics cards, consoles and computers alike have encouraged projects to pay more attention to the aesthetics. […]
Week 2 Twitter Teasers from the BBC Sherlock Set
If you thought that the Twitter teasings of Arwel Wyn Jones would end after the first week, you’re in for a treat. Here’s a roundup of last week’s peeks at the BBC Sherlock set, courtesy of everyone’s favorite production designer. It’s all falling into place… A photo that didn’t come […]
Path of Exile: A Refreshing Online Experience
Path of Exile, a new “online action RPG” from New Zealand-based team Grinding Gear Games, is currently in open beta. While the graphical style and rather outdated-looking UI may seem uninspiring at first glance, the gameplay is anything but. There is a Diablo-esque familiarity to the ARPG that will draw […]
BBC Sherlock Production Designer Teases Return on Twitter
We’ve just passed the one-year mark since Sherlock staged his fatal fall from the roof of St. Bart’s, and fans of the BBC series continue to wait restlessly for all the answers series 3 will (hopefully) bring. The suspense has been excruciating, but this week, a glimmer of hope appeared […]
Supernatural returns and the search for tablets, vampires, and brotherly reconciliation continues
The road so far… is paved with SPOILERS. Proceed with caution. Ding-dong Dick Roman’s dead, but the never-ending frying pan to fire cycle continues for our Winchester boys. So far, season 8 has been angst and flashbacks galore, with Dean busting out of purgatory to find that, in the […]
Gryffindor Wins the House Cup! … in Quidditch Beer Pong
We love Harry Potter. But let’s be real here, who doesn’t? Quidditch is one of the central components of the Harry Potter world and pretty much everyone who has ever read the books has wanted to play. So much so that Muggle Quidditch is a thing now and they even […]
Hitchcock is delightful and quirky with darker elements lurking in the corner.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQuRLERl6A?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] IMDB Link First and foremost, if you’re looking for a film that explains how Hitchcock directed Psycho or focuses on Psycho, then this is not it. You get insight into how the film was made and the delicious tension of just how important the movie was to Hitchcock’s […]
The Bourne Legacy Movie Review
The Bourne Legacy (2012) Directed by Tony Gilroy Starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton It’s decent. I personally think Jeremy Renner and the cast’s acting held it together. I have been a huge fan of the Bourne franchise since The Bourne Identity in 2002 and when I heard […]