SPOILERS AHEAD. You have been warned. In the past I’ve frowned upon the episodic model of releasing games. I had often seen it used to sell unfinished games broken up into pieces rather than giving you a complete product worthy of your time and money. In some cases, these games would never even be fully … Continue reading The Wolf Among Us Recap – “A Crooked Mile”
The original 1979 The Muppet Movie is an indisputable classic. The leap of taking Jim Henson’s Muppet characters from a half-hour television variety show to a feature length motion picture musical must have been a daunting task, but the first time out the gate they did it so well that 35 years and seven films … Continue reading Movie Review – Muppets Most Wanted
I’m back again with another set of pictures from Disneyland. This month I decided to spend some more time with Disneyland’s sister park, Disney California Adventure. California Adventure is a park that has had a fairly remarkable transformation, yet still has a few areas that still are problematic from both a design and thematic standpoint. … Continue reading Pictures from Disneyland – February 2014
So many of the great effects in Disneyland are based on the idea of a reveal. Turning a corner in almost absolute darkness, hearing screams and a disembodied voice up ahead before you round the turn to see the source of the voice: a ghostly Jolly Roger above a dark archway. Emerging from the inside … Continue reading Reveals in the Haunted Mansion or: How it Took Seeing an Effect Broken to Realize That I Didn’t Like it.
Oh DreamWorks Animation, what will we do with you? It’s clear that you’re trying so hard to reinvent yourselves, to take that genuine affection people have for How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda and recreate it in your other films. In some ways you’re getting REALLY close, but you just can’t stop … Continue reading Movie Review – Mr. Peabody & Sherman
SPOILERS AHEAD. You’ve been warned. We’re back again for the second episode of The Walking Dead Season Two, and in many ways a pattern is beginning to emerge in the story structure of this series and the concurrently running The Wolf Among Us. If you read my recap of the most recent episode of that … Continue reading The Walking Dead: Season Two Recap – “A House Divided”
SPOILERS AHEAD. You’ve been warned. Although I mentioned it in my list of the most interesting games I played in 2013, I haven’t talked much about Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us. Which is a shame because despite a few quibbles the first episode of it was genuinely excellent! It set up an intriguing world … Continue reading The Wolf Among Us Recap – “Smoke and Mirrors”
As you may or may not already be aware, I’m a pretty hardcore theme park nerd. I’m fascinated by the way they combine ideals found in film, theater, and classical arts in order to transport you to a place that exists in three dimensions all around you, the way they can design things from the … Continue reading Pictures from Disneyland – January 2014
I’m not quite sure when exactly it happened, but after spending the first several months complaining about the absence of a truly great movie, somewhere along the way 2013 turned into another stunningly excellent year for film. I have my real top ten list coming in a few days, but right now I wanted to … Continue reading Top 10 Scenes of 2013
2013 was kind of a crazy year for me. I applied for, and was accepted to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, I started a new position at work, I made an effort to spend more time watching movies, and I prepared to move my entire life to a new location. In all of that, sadly, … Continue reading The 5 Most Interesting Games I Played in 2013
