by Ravi Sinha By now you’ve probably read one of the 70 reviews for the newest videogame-to-film adaptation based on Remedy’s infamous shooter Max Payne. The trailers for the film were taut, depicting various hallucinatory angels and stark city backdrops – a true homage to Payne noir. And with Mark Wahlberg still fresh off his [...]
by Vaishak V.K Contrary to the not so popular and entirely fictional belief, Machinima was not coined as the conjugation of Machine and Enema. Rather, a misspelling of Machinema (machine meets cinema), gave birth to the term Machinima, to be specific, person behind the typo and large scale pimping of this genre is Hugh Hancock [...]
Dear Ms. Carroll, You’ve no doubt heard this a hundred times, but you’re incredibly beautiful as the new Lara Croft. Not because you’re one of those aspiring model types with feisty silicon implants, but because you come from good, old girl-next-door America. You’re an ordinary person yet you’ve displayed the potential for amazing things. However, [...]
by Ravi Sinha In the words of second-hander extraordinaire Ellsworth Toohey from The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand’s other philosophical paperback cataclysm),“Who is Gore Verbinski actually? What’s his particular God? The one thing he would go to pieces without?” That’s not to say the man can be reduced to a perpetual mess of a jigsaw, much like, [...]
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