Month: October 2011
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Arkham City First Impressions [GO]
Arkham City is out! I played it for a few hours last night. Here are some initial thoughts: – Have a backup game on another console ready. Play that until the free (with non-used purchase) Catwoman DLC finishes downloading (mine was Gears of War 3). I guess Rocksteady Studios was thinking, “If the Catwoman DLC […]
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What I’ve Been Doing 17 Oct 2011 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]
Movies Bran Nue Dae – Disappointingly mediocre. I was expecting something interesting from a musical about aboriginal life in Australia, but it just wasn’t there. Uneven pacing, bland characters, and, worst of all, completely forgettable music. That’s the one thing you have to do right in a musical! TV How I Met Your Mother – […]
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What I’ve Been Doing 10 October 2011 [FB/IB/F/BT/GO]
Movies Everything Must Go – Rebecca Hall is superb. I first saw her in The Prestige and I instantly fell in love with her acting. She’s a good understated and expressive actor. Will Ferrell in a drama is pretty neat too. He really shows a lot of range on this and I’d like to see […]
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The Binding of Isaac [GO]
Despite my adult-onset atheism, I’m actually glad that I grew up with a religious background, but not for the reasons you might think. See, I’m a sucker for mythology and literature and I think that I would notice fewer allusions to the dominant religion of the Western world if I didn’t have that religious education. […]