I Want To Subscribe To Wired Magazine, But…
Between 1996 and 2002, I collected every new issue of PC Gamer, most of which were purchased individually off magazine racks. I wanted to know more about PC gaming and, well, they were the premier publication to acquire facts and opinions about it as a 12-year old kid. I developed a connection to the magazine during Gary Whitta’s time as Editor-in-Chief (he’s gone on to much bigger stuff since then) and loved to follow the staff as they made each issue an adventure. Nowadays, the publication’s merely a brochure for the hobby and I doubt it’ll be around much longer. So why do I bring it up? Because it reminds me so much of how I want to fall in love with Wired, but I just can’t pull the trigger.
‘The Grey’ Review – Intense Wintry Survival
You should see The Grey. I wouldn’t say the theater is a necessity, but this is a film to be enjoyed in pitch darkness with a booming sound system. So, yeah, go see it in theaters. As a survival thriller, it suffers from the ‘natch’es of the genre. Like: natch, there’s going to be a diverse cast and they’re going to get knocked off one by one as we wade through the film for various reasons. Natch, there’s going to be a scene around a campfire where we contrive some reason to connect with the principal cast as they’re being knocked off. Natch, jump scares.
So with that out of the way, let’s talk about how The Grey is totally awesome.
Ferris Bueller 2 Trailer On Super Bowl Sunday? Oh, Yeah. (Updated)
Day, bow-bow. That’s right ladies and gents, Ferris looks to be back in action after 20 years (or so). The teaser, which was virally released yesterday, gives us a taste of what to expect on Super Bowl Sunday. And what should we expect but a wonderful, 2 minute trailer of Ferris ditching his grown up job and family to wreck havoc in Chicago with Cameron. Well, hopefully it’ll have more substance than that. Check out the teaser below. So beautiful.
Update: Bad news, folks. The teaser is actually for a Honda CR-V commercial. Watch the full commercial, here.
‘Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie’ Review – I Just, It’s Uh…
This movie is absurd.
TV Review – The Firm – It’s Happening Again
If you’ve been feeling that there just aren’t enough lawyer shows on television, then NBC has a mid-season legal thriller for you. And – bonus – you’ve heard the name before.
The Firm is a weekly series based on the John Grisham-penned, Tom Cruise-helmed legal thriller of the 1990s. Clearly, NBC is banking a lot on the show’s name recognition. They’ve already put in a surprising 22-episode order.
But the truly surprising thing is that the show isn’t half bad.
Internet Piracy Is Inevitable. Stop Fighting It.
It sucks to see your stuff stolen. Whether it’s online or from your own house, seeing someone take something from you, perhaps valuable, with a second thought to the consequences, is dreadful. At some base level, one could look at the recent SOPA or PIPA legislation as the equivalent of punishing someone for stealing (or aiding someone to steal) from you, in much the same way cops jail people who steal your car or invade your home. Internet piracy is an entirely different animal, however: not only is the theft so incredibly easy, but the technological countermeasures go out of their way to harm legal purchasers as well. The fact is, media companies just need to stop fighting the change and embrace it for the better.
The Best Of “Shit People Say”
It all began with a video titled “Shit Girls Say“. Much like a bad case of herpes started in a dormitory at Arizona State University, the video spread across the entire interwebs in less than a week. Not too soon after the video went viral, multiple spin-offs were created by different people for different people. You’ll notice every video starts off with the person titled saying unintelligent, repetitive, yet endearing things that’ll make you say laugh, cry or close the window. Most fall flat but with some investigating and several shots of Johnnie Walker, we here at FleshEatingZipper found the top 5 shit people say videos!
Better Than ‘Mass Effect’ Or ‘Halo’, ‘The Definity’ Is The Best Science-Fiction Of 2012
Last night, I was up until 1AM inserting HTML italics tags into a Notepad document as part of the finishing touches on my book, The Definity. In the publishing world, I would’ve simply handed my manuscript off to someone else and let some creative director deal with all the nitty-gritty details in regards to book covers and eBook versions of my story and I could rest at night on the piles of money that the publisher gave me. Instead, I was painstakingly searching line by line making sure that the book’s format wouldn’t “break” when someone loaded it up on their Kindle. From the cover (our artist Cody actually did all the characters and main artwork while I did layout) to design, publication, and promotion, it was a challenge to assemble this book over the past 15 months while working a full-time job and writing for the best web site in the world.
This one. That’s where you think ‘this one, FleshEatingZipper’.
The Finder Review
I watch Bones regularly and sometime last year an episode was hi-jacked with what the industry calls a backdoor pilot. This pilot was for The Finder. It looked interesting staring Geoff Stults as Walter Sherman (the finder), Michael Clark Duncan as Walters lawyer/muscle and Saffron Burrows as the eye-candy/bar tender. They did a good job mending the shows together, Booth from Bones knows Walter Sherman from serving together in the Army and in the second episode Sweets is doing an evaluation to see if Walter can be used as a government consultant. Read the rest of this article…
Movie Review – Underworld: Awakening
The vampires and werewolves are at it again in Underworld: Awakening, the fourth film in the Underworld franchise. Why can’t those crazy monsters just get along?
Kate Beckinsale reprises her role as the vampire Selene, everybody’s favorite blue-eyed Death Dealer. This time she’s separated from her half-werewolf lover and ends up saddled with a mysterious 12 year-old girl named Eve, who is on the run from the werewolves because of some secret that is easy to guess. As with the previous Underworld films, Selene mostly just does a lot of jumping and posing and yoga, surely, to fit into that tight leather outfit.
