Holiday-ish Movies
Lists appeal to everyone, whether it’s the top five things you can use to jazz up your Ramen noodle soup (1. fried chicken, 2. more noodles, 3. hard-boiled eggs, 4. corncakes wrapped in American cheese, 5. peppermints) or the Best/Worst Sports Injuries of the Century (Theismann). In order to appeal to the growing list-conscious American ...continue reading
Deb’s Cine-Meh House: The Bounty
The Bounty (1984) is not the story of the moderately popular chocolate bar of the same name, but a laborious cruise into history with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins as Mr. Christian and Capt. Bligh respectively. YES NO ...continue reading
Deb’s Cine-Meh House: The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project (1986) does not take place in Manhattan at all (unlike the super-secret government project of the same name), but there is a plutonium bomb built by a high-school student who, in real life, would probably end up riddled with cancerous tumors from radiation poisoning, but the movie goes in a different direction. ...continue reading
Deb’s Cine-Meh House: D.A.R.Y.L.
Filmmakers were too lazy to come up with a better name/acronym than D.A.R.Y.L. “Data-Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform” in 1985. But they did manage to come up with a promotional scam phone number that curious kids could call to find out what the acronym meant. Despite this chicanery, the film flopped. —D.E.B. “Dingus Eagle Bananahat” ...continue reading
Nintendo to take over Times Square
If you happen to live in NYC, or you’re visiting, and you also happen to be a fan of Nintendo’s Mario Bros games (most likely you are if you read this blog), get your ass over to Time Square this Saturday (Nov 12) from 10am to 4pm. They are taking over “Military Island” in Time ...continue reading
Deb’s Cine-Meh House: Cat’s Eye
Cat’s Eye (1985) was the last film appearance of Troll #1 from Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1974) before he retired to a dusty attic in Boca Raton, Florida. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBdshG0lWac ...continue reading
Mario – the Horror Film
G4 celebrates Halloween in a way that is only fitting for them, they have commissioned 3 short horror films based on video games for their “Epictober” film festival Yesterday they released The Hunt, a twisted version of the classic Duck Hunt. Below is the video for Kart Driver, which is obviously based on Mario but ...continue reading
Fox Retro promo
Check out this awesome promo video for “Fox Retro”, a block of programming (or maybe a channel) for Fox Italy. They re-imagined a bunch of 80′s shows in to 8-bit video games. So amazing! (I’ll forgive the fact that it’s FOX..this time) ...continue reading
New York Comic-Con 2011
Yeah yeah I know I’m like a week late on posting my NYCC pic. I’ve been busy. NYCC was a blast! It does feel like it’s outgrowing the Javitz center space but I have no idea where else in NYC it could be. Comic-Cons are the best. I love that Cosplaying has become such a ...continue reading
Super Mario Bros crossover
Where have I been! This is a year old and I’m just learning about it now. This must have come out when I was in that year-long coma… yeah, that’s it. For those of you that have been in an even longer coma, let me introduce to you something so awesome and spectacular that it ...continue reading
Lego MindStorm + Android = Rubix Solver
This is so amazing. I wish I could make something like this. From the YouTube info: The mechanics are constructed entirely from LEGO, including four MINDSTORMS NXT kits, with the addition of a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone running a custom Android app as the robot’s brain. Both the MINDSTORMS NXT kits and the Samsung ...continue reading
UPDATE: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
As the waves of adulation that rose in the wake of Steve Jobs death finally settle, people are beginning to remember that Jobs was more than the Horatio Alger story of his Stanford commencement. And it is a relief. There are plenty of examples of people being euphemistically canonized in death despite unsavory personalities or ...continue reading