[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrvkCS0ZGPU] Directed by Joshua Michael Stern Starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, and Dermot Mulroney Rating: C- It’s hard to do movies about people like Steve Jobs. Living a life in the spotlight, Jobs brings to light the rather rocky yet illustrious chronicles of a genius. As a slave to the company […]
Robots, Exoskeletons, Crazy Villains, and Space Make "Elysium" a Sci-Fi Must-See
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILNSgou5BY&w=560&h=315] Elysium Directed by Neil Blomkamp Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley Rating: B+ If you’ve seen Park Avenue (a documentary on Netflix about the rich and poor) Elysium is essentially a future built from that divide. In 2154, Earth is nothing more than an overpopulated and polluted place […]
My Epic Quest to Reclaim my XBox Live Account
I am going to admit up front that I am not a Microsoft fangirl or much of a 360 gamer at all. I bought my Xbox 360 back in January 2009 after I moved back to California from my study abroad in South Korea. At the time it was still […]
"Kick-Ass 2": Good on violence, terrible on most everything else
I want to start this review by saying that I legitimately like the first Kick-Ass film. It’s not a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination and I definitely ended up liking The Losers and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World more by the end of 2010, but it was […]
PHXCC 2013: Reflections on Phoenix Comicon 2013
Now more than two and a half months since the event, this post is way over due. Especially since the folks at Phoenix Comicon were nice enough to confirm me for a press pass and attend the event for free. They were the first people to give Nerdophiles that recognition […]
BASC Preview: Meet Guest of Honor Anna Padilla
Bay Area Sherlock Con is this weekend and we were lucky enough to get an introduction to one more guest of honor before Amy and I pack our bags and head to Santa Clara. Anna Padilla is a 21-year-old community college student from Sacramento, CA. With her passion for art […]
An Open Letter to Netflix RE: Subtitles
Dear Netflix, I love your service. I love Netflix. I really do. I’ve been paying for the service now for three or four years and I use it pretty regularly. And while some people have a lot of complaints about the service, mine have been relatively few and far between. […]
SDCC 2013: Breaking Bad Fan Appreciation Party
I won a Twitter contest to get into the Breaking Bad Fan Appreciation Party at San Diego Comic Con 2013. You had to be one of the first sixty people to tweet using the hashtag #BreakingBadCC. Originally, I had been put on an alternates list, but about a week before […]
Highlights from D23
Disney’s once-every-couple-years convention D23 just wrapped up out in Anaheim and if you’ve been paying attention a few interesting tidbits came out of the event. D23, for those of you who don’t know, was originally conceptualized as a sort of Disney fan club get together where Disney fans could seen […]
A Stranger in a Game Land: King of Tokyo
I don’t really game that much. Up until this point in my life, the only board games I had really played were games like Monopoly and Clue and trading card games like Pokemon. All of those ended up with me rage quitting because my aunts and uncles sucked all the […]