Cowboys & Aliens: Back In Your Hole!

Finally, after much anticipation, Cowboys & Aliens has finally made its way into the box office. With big names like Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig backing up the combination of A-list and B-list cast, this movie dares to walk with a big stick; whether the film itself is capable of wielding said stick is for you to decide.



The film starts off just like the trailers portray it: a cowboy wakes up in the middle of nowhere, has no idea who he is, and has a mysterious metal wristband on his arm. After making his way into town and undergoing several different conflicts with, both, idiots with guns and the authority of the town he encounters his first alien attack, warding off the last ship in the region with this arm band laser gun. This process takes up about twenty to thirty minutes and feels a tad bit drawn out due to the large number of times I have seen the same parts played out via the actual trailer.



I Am Stamos

No, that isn't a typo - this is not a review for the summer 2011 film "I am Number 4" but rather another short film found in the bowels of the internet. Where this deserves to stay.

The film begins with a pretty interesting idea, what if the guy that usually plays the bumbling idiot gets to be the big star for once in his life. Then it takes that idea behind the shed, holds it down, and makes it eat its spit. Andy is, like most people in California not smoking all of the legal weed they can get their hands on, trying to make it big. He has had several roles allowing him a foot in the door but he is always casted as the bumbling idiot. On the day that he decides to tell the producer of his biggest opportunity to forcibly insert the role up his anus - coinciding perfectly with Andy's birthday, he is magically turned into Bob Saget's bitch . . . . John Stamos.

Vindictus: BTLN Review


Vindictus is a F2P (free to play) hack 'n slash MMORPG that, put simply, is actually worth the effort of playing. Nexon's games tend to be rather hit and miss, while carrying a long standing tradition of grinding. Vindictus takes their standard formula and brings it to a whole new level. As Vindictus hit the states last October, this is a BTLN (Better Late Than Never) review.

Ten for Grandpa.


I was originally going to write a review for the newest Luna Lovegood . . . I mean Harry Potter movie, but I felt like that would be boring. So instead I decided to fluff my hipster ego by reviewing a short indie film that no one has heard of.

I've posted a link containing the entire video for the sole fact that I doubt very many have seen it. The video follows Doug Karr as he questions his grandfather, David Karr (A player on the world stage during the Red Scare post World War 2), well Doug is posing his questions to a ghost seeing as his grandpa died a month before his birth.

The 10 questions begin simply enough, questioning David's multiple marriages, and with building suspense - each question digging deeper into his life as a writer for the USA Communist newspaper "The Daily Worker" and his growth as a world player - finally ending with the deepest question asked throughout the entire video "Who where you?".

I don't want to give too much of the video away, and I can't talk too much about it without giving something away. That said I do want to talk as a whole, the transitions were gorgeous and entertaining, I didnt see a single flaw between each scene and they flowed almost magically. The actors chosen were very good, and I enjoyed the performance but the short was shot and directed by the actual Dough Karr and the question arises "Why the hell weren't you in a movie that follows you?" That was the only problem I saw with the short.

I don't believe that we have started any form of a rating system - they seem cliche to me. But I do want to give this short my thumbs up and suggest that if you have not clicked the link at the top yet, that you do so soon . . . do it now. . . . watch the video.

Alice! Where did your skin go?



Note: This first segment is about the prequel to Madness Returns in order to catch people up to speed with the story so far. If you wish to skip ahead to the actual review, scroll until after the dotted line and start reading from there.


American McGee is a man of many twisted tales; what else would you expect from one of the designers behind the first two Doom and Quake games. After finishing his work on the four id games, American transferred over to Electronic Arts studios and became the creative director of his own, twisted child: American McGee's Alice. Released in 1998 on the PC, the game was to take place after the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and star Alice in the disturbing role of a criminally insane patient.


After accidentally burning down her house and killing her family, Alice floats through life, an empty shell of a person, letting her dark and twisted thoughts take hold of her body; this, ultimately, leads to her institutionalization into the Rutledge Asylum. After spending so much time at Rutledge, Alice's mind slowly takes over her body and her corruption overpowers her last shred of sanity, sending her into a Wonderland she no longer recognizes.

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I will refrain from telling you the rest of the story as the game comes free with the purchase of it's successor: Alice: Madness Returns. If the game is bought on the 360 or PS3, you get a redeeming code to download it off of Xbox Live or the PlayStation Network, if you buy the game on PC, it installs into your program files folder right next to the "Alice2" directory. How nice of EA. Regardless of whether the free prize you get with the purchase is worth it or not, is the game you're actually paying for, Alice: Madness Returns, worth it? Find out after the Jump.