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Live, Die, Repeat Movie and Book Review

Directed by Doug Liman Written by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterwork, and Hiroshi Sakurazaka Starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, and Bill Paxton All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka Haikasoru 2009 $7.99; 203 pages ISBN 978-421560878 This is one story with three titles. The original Japanese light

The Long View: The Black Sun

Raiders of the Lost ArkThe idea that the Nazis were into the occult has become a widely popular idea. When Indiana Jones battles Nazis for the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail, no one needs any backstory to make this plausible. We just all accept it and move

Beat the Reaper Book Review

Another book review that disappeared. I really love the tagline for this review: "Like Scrubs on crack." Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell Little, Brown, and Company, 2009 ISBN 0316032220; $9.99 Every time I look at this book, I think of the song by Blue Öyster Cult,

Bioshock Infinite videogame review

Bioshock Infinite videogame review

Its for the children When I told the Magistra I had played Bioshock Infinite, and I was shocked by its graphic violence, she was surprised. "I didn't think you would play another Bioshock game." After the review I gave Bioshock, I suppose I'm not

The Video Games Guide Book Review

by Matt Fox $55.00; 376 pages I received this book for free as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. I think this is one of my favorite books I've received for review. I end up with a lot of stinkers, but this book is pure joy

Iconic Videogame Soundtracks

If you wasted your childhood playing videogames, then these sounds ought to make you nostalgic:

Thoughts on Batman: Arkham Asylum

Thoughts on Batman: Arkham Asylum

What jury wouldn't vote to kill this man?Back to the regularly scheduled program of reviewing things that aren't new. I'm not so much interested in reviewing this game as in reflecting on it. I've really enjoyed Christopher Nolan's Batman