No time for personal computer use means I'll be updated very infrequently. Thanks to Google Docs, I can write a few words a day and come up with a viable journal entry in a week or two (the body of this current entry was last edited 5 days ago, says the Google).

( On with the reviews! House of Leaves, Blindsight, An Inconvenient Truth, Ice Age )

I haven't been doing much reading. Almost finished with Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Slowly working through Borges' Collected Fictions. Haven't yet wrapped up my William Hope Hodgson anthology. You'll mostly find video games below.
( Reviews ahoy! )

Paul WS Anderson may be making a Castlevania movie. I'm mixed on this, because I loved Resident Evil, and Event Horizon had some good parts. But I hear that Aliens Vs. Predator and Mortal Kombat were awful. I won't even bring up Soldier (even though I have a soft spot for Kurt Russell). I may have to make some additions to the Netflix queue as ( Read more... )

Doom: I was expecting at least one of the following: Well-spirited jabs at the video game (powerups lying around, arbitrary rooms filled with demons, circle-strafing with fancy footwork) and all-out fantasy (which is what Doom really is, despite its future Mars setting) with demons, magic portals, Hell and all that. The on-screen reality was an ( Read more... )

The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy (Film): Mostly funny with a great combination of high- and low-tech effects. I appreciate that it wasn't slavishly identical to the source material (how could it with the source being a radio play, BBC series, novel, interactive fiction game, and more). I only had two problems. First, for a movie that doesn't ( Read more... )

ßehemoth: ß-max & Seppuku (Book, Peter Watts): A single book in two volumes1, ßehemoth ends what Starfish began and Maelstrom continued. Bisected, it still does the job, since Watts already wrote it in two distinct parts. The first half takes place at the bottom of the Atlantic, the setting that first gripped me in Starfish. The second is a trip ( Read more... )

I, Robot: (Film) A shallow action film revolving around Will Smith's robophobic cop and a great iMac-inspired robot. Smith can't carry the film by himself and his human companion seems more robotic than the iDroid. In fact, the poor robot is the most human of the bunch, though that doesn't take much effort. Don't even try listening to the ( Read more... )