January 7, 2007 Archive

Gaming

• PS2 Review: Final Fantasy XII

  Can I get a little game with my movie please?

  Review in Gaming — by Kristen Schweitzer — on Jan 07, 2007

Video

• DVD Review: Tower of Evil (1972)

  A 'slasher movie' made before the term existed, back when the genre had sex as well as violence.

  Review in Video — by Maximillian — on Jan 07, 2007

• 24 Season Six Episodes Leaked Onto the 'Net

  The pirates do a 24-style hijack, and beat FOX to the premier.

  News in Video — by Ashleigh Charlesworth — on Jan 07, 2007

• DVD Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Volume 6

  The constant string of releases continues for this animated series.

  Review in Video — by Matt Paprocki — on Jan 07, 2007

• Movie Review: Dreamgirls

  Not exactly a good movie, but a dazzling audience-pleaser.

  Review in Video — by Randall A Byrn — on Jan 07, 2007

• Movie Review: The Pursuit of Happyness

  An enthralling though ultimately unsatisfying film

  Review in Video — by Gordon S. Miller — on Jan 07, 2007

• Movie Review: Prophecy

  John Frankenheimer's Prophecy is a silly '70s B-movie wrapped in a doomsday tale of environmental destruction at the hands of corporate America.

  Review in Video — by T. Rigney — on Jan 07, 2007

• Movie Review: Memories of Murder (2003)

  A superior police procedural set in 1980s South Korea, from the director of The Host.

  Review in Video — by Maximillian — on Jan 07, 2007

• Movie Review: United 93 and World Trade Center - A Tale of Two 9/11 Films

  Two movies, one incredible, one awful, that deal with September 11, 2001.

  Review in Video — by Daryl D — on Jan 07, 2007

• Movie Review: Children of Men

  A transcendent experience of the mind and soul.

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Jan 07, 2007

• DVD Review: Tomb Raider - Cradle of Life

  A return to dumb action that fails to improve in any area over the first.

  Review in Video — by Matt Paprocki — on Jan 07, 2007

• TV Sneak Peek: The Apprentice: Los Angeles

  Enough with the Trump Towers and cutthroat NYC attitudes - this season, The Apprentice is moving to the charmed and sparkling beaches of Los Angeles.

  News in Video — by TV with MeeVee — on Jan 07, 2007

• DVD Review: Hustle - Season One

  This is one of the most watchable television series currently in production. They'll steal your heart!

  Review in Video — by Mel Odom — on Jan 07, 2007

• Movie Review: Home of the Brave

  Coming home is the real battle, but enjoying this movie is nearly impossible...

  Review in Video — by Neil Miller — on Jan 07, 2007

Sports

• Something Wicked This Way Comes

  Football season winds down. Is it time to weep?

  Opinion in Sports — by The Critic — on Jan 07, 2007

• Canada Wins World Junior Hockey Championship

  Canada vs. Russia: A classic sports rivalry.

  News in Sports — by Alessandro Nicolo — on Jan 07, 2007

• Seahawks Beat Cowboys - What Kind Of Ending Was That?

  Just knowing the result now, 21-20 Seattle -- doesn't do the last few heart-attack minutes justice.

  News in Sports — by Temple Stark — on Jan 07, 2007

Sci/Tech

• Website Review: Internet Archive Preserves Live Music, Old Websites, and Much More

  A quest for a long-forgotten Billy Bragg song led me to remember the wonders of the Internet Archive.

  Review in Sci/Tech — by Diane Kristine Wild — on Jan 07, 2007

• Review: Terratec Cinergy DT USB XS Diversity

  USB2 DVB-T Dual Tuners for the PC with Diversity for improved reception.

  Review in Sci/Tech — by Ashleigh Charlesworth — on Jan 07, 2007

• Free WiFi Coming to San Francisco While Pasadena Waits Nobly, Impatiently

  A landmark development in lowering the digital divide?

  News in Sci/Tech — by Eric Berlin — on Jan 07, 2007

Books

• Book Review: Autumn Of The Phantoms by Yasmina Khadra

  This should be required reading for anybody wanting to understand the reality of living with terrorism.

  Review in Books — by Richard Marcus — on Jan 07, 2007

• Book Review: How to Be, Do, or Have Anything (A Practical Guide to Creative Empowerment) by Laurence G. Boldt

  A motivational goal-setting and goal-reaching book.

  Review in Books — by Joy Jama — on Jan 07, 2007

• Book Review: Breakpoint by Richard Clarke

  This thriller has warning labels about emerging technology and the future of the human race.

  Review in Books — by Mel Odom — on Jan 07, 2007

• The Early Word: New Books for the Week of January 9, 2007

  Coming up: Ehrenreich, Evanovich, Obama, Jance, Dancing in the Streets, gumshoes and gurus, lunacy and lust, Robert Stone and RN Patterson.

  News in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jan 07, 2007

• Book Review: Double Blank by Yasmina Khadra

  A vivid portrait of a country struggling to stay away from the madness that has affected so many other nations.

  Review in Books — by Richard Marcus — on Jan 07, 2007

• Book Review: Not On The Level by Michael V. Maddaloni

  Things are not what they seem or should be, and decidedly not on the level in this engrossing coming-of-age story of a first-generation Italian-American.

  Review in Books — by Sujatha Bagal — on Jan 07, 2007

Politics

• Bumper Sticker Insights: "No One is Free When Others are Oppressed"

  If a bumper sticker is your statement to the world, it ought to be something you've thought deeply about.

  Opinion in Politics — by Dave Nalle — on Jan 07, 2007

• Q: Who Was the FBI's Most Damaging Spy?

  mental_floss question of the day.

  News in Politics — by Mental_Floss — on Jan 07, 2007

Music

• Confessions of a Fanboy 014: Best Albums of 2006

  There are a ton of great records waiting to be discovered, these are just a few of them.

  Opinion in Music — by Josh Hathaway — on Jan 07, 2007

• Music DVD Review: Cream - Royal Albert Hall (London May 2, 3, 5, 6 2005)

  Cream rekindles the chemistry after 36 years.

  Review in Music — by Paul Roy — on Jan 07, 2007

• The Rockologist: Jim Dandy And Black Oak Arkansas

  Awwwwl Right. You feelin' good cause you got a lot of motor under your wheels. And you say "Mama I Got a Hot Rod."

  Opinion in Music — by Glen Boyd — on Jan 07, 2007

• Retro Redux: One More Toast To Anita O'Day - And To Her Mentor

  "Reefer" use among musicians of the time was not uncommon, but the laws were not forgiving...

  Opinion in Music — by Big Geez — on Jan 07, 2007

• Music Review: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - Classics For Pleasure

  ...my opinion of Prandit Vishwa Mahan Bhatt's disc Classics For Pleasure is that it is simply astounding.

  Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Jan 07, 2007

• Blogcritics Goodie Bag: Buffalo Killers, Altermuzik, Papoose, Casimir Nozkowski, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

  Digital media music and video downloads and streams.

  News in Music — by Anna Creech — on Jan 07, 2007

• Music Review: Bitter:sweet - The Mating Game

  Bitter:sweet is a band with a unique sound and style that is soft and lovely.

  Review in Music — by Michael Jones — on Jan 07, 2007

• Music Review: Sneakers - Nonsequitur of Silence

  Collector’s Choice unearths two power-pop EPs by future members of the dB’s and Let’s Active: thousands of pop nerds swoon!!!

  Review in Music — by Bill Sherman — on Jan 07, 2007

Culture

• How's Your Business Jargon Today?

  A former insider's take on business jargon (no substitute for lucid profundity).

  Opinion in Culture — by Alessandro Nicolo — on Jan 07, 2007

• Day By Day for January 07, 2007

  Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for January 07, 2007

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Jan 07, 2007

• Great Art Reflects a Great Period

  There is so little great art today. Citizen Kane still forces us to ask what we've lost in our world that Welles had in his.

  Opinion in Culture — by Alessandro Nicolo — on Jan 07, 2007