April 5, 2008 Archive

Gaming

• Nintendo DS Review: Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates

  Don't let the monolithic title get you down - Square Enix has crafted a pretty enjoyable RPG for the DS.

  Review in Gaming — by Matt Madeiro — on Apr 05, 2008

• PC Game Review: Fashion Solitaire

  A fun alternative to standard solitaire, but not worth paying $20 for poor graphics.

  Review in Gaming — by Toni Schwartz — on Apr 05, 2008

Video

• DVD Review: There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)

  This is damn well a perfect film.

  Review in Video — by Gordon S. Miller — on Apr 05, 2008

• Blu-ray Review: 50 First Dates

  One of the better Sandler comedies is a nice hi-def presentation.

  Review in Video — by Matt Paprocki — on Apr 05, 2008

• DVD Review: Joseph Campbell - Mythos I

  I found Mythos I highly engrossing and totally entertaining and I highly recommend this DVD.

  Review in Video — by T. Michael Testi — on Apr 05, 2008

• Win $10,000 By Supporting The Planet

  To kick off season two of The Green.

  News in Video — by Maddy Pumilia — on Apr 05, 2008

• DVD Review: Van Morrison - Under Review 1964-1974

  An incredibly well done, remarkably insightful video survey of the first decade of Van Morrison's career.

  Review in Video — by T. Michael Testi — on Apr 05, 2008

• TV Review: Rock the Cradle

  The nature vs. nurture debate...

  Review in Video — by Alexandria Jackson — on Apr 05, 2008

• Movie Review: Chapter 27

  With finely nuanced detail, and uncanny, horrifying realism, Jared Leto outs John Lennon's killer as the pathetic inkblot on history he is.

  Review in Video — by Glen Boyd — on Apr 05, 2008

• Movie Review: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

  ... a breezy screwball comedy can be made without being a remake or depending on obvious references to other movies of the genre.

  Review in Video — by moviejohn — on Apr 05, 2008

• TV Review: Survivor: Micronesia - Their True Sides Show

  The Airai tribes eats a rat, haven't these people ever herd of the black plague?

  Review in Video — by Katelynn Phillips — on Apr 05, 2008

Books

• Book Review: Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

  Can a whole town be filled with drugged up, narcissistic, scheming, vengeful, self-destructive losers?

  Review in Books — by Ted Gioia — on Apr 05, 2008

• Book Review: The Return Of The Sword Edited By Jason M Waltz -

  I can think of nothing better than this collection of mayhem to take your mind off things.

  Review in Books — by Richard Marcus — on Apr 05, 2008

• Pulp Pages: "The Duchess Pulls a Fast One" by Whitman Chambers

  “The Duchess,” a reporter for The Sun, could “produce hunches faster than a cigarette machine turns out coffin nails.”

  Review in Books — by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Apr 05, 2008

Music

• Music Review: The Rolling Stones - Shine a Light Soundtrack (Deluxe Edition)

  They're the Rolling Stones and they'll be the Rolling Stones until they say they're not.

  Review in Music — by Josh Hathaway — on Apr 05, 2008

• Music Reviews: Asia, Toto, New Found Glory, The Dreamscapes Project & Kingdom of Sorrow

  Another week and another eclectic collection of rock.

  Review in Music — by Marty Dodge — on Apr 05, 2008

• Music Review: Karrin Allyson - Imagina: Songs Of Brasil

  The Grammy-nominated vocalist gives us some warm Brazilian jazz.

  Review in Music — by Big Geez — on Apr 05, 2008

Culture

• Theater Review (NYC): Hostage Song

  Two war hostages are wrenched into a space so unreal that erupting into song seems as sensible as anything else.

  Review in Culture — by Jon Sobel — on Apr 05, 2008