You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week we watched Die Hard with a Vengeance! Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson try to stop crazy Jeremy Irons from blowing up New York and stealing billions in gold. Seems like a normal day in the complicated life that is
The Blood Guard by Carter Roy wasn’t anything like what I’d expected. The main character Ronan may be a teenager who’s stumbled across a world of swords and sorcery and automatic weapons, but this is not one of those stories where he turns out to be some kind of “chosen one” or demigod. Not even
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Everybody’s working so hard lately, but there’s two kinds of working. First there’s the building, designing, digging, power-tools kind of working. We’re doing a lot of that. But there’s also catching up on all the awesome geeky stuff out there. All those
What had once been rafters holding up a roof were now floor joists in Palmer’s house. Someone else’s house stood below theirs, long abandoned and unclaimed. Soon, his own home would be someone’s basement and this a sand-filled cellar. And so it went, sand piling up to the heavens and homes sinking toward hell. My
Welcome to State of Play, an editorial column from Pixelated Geek. In State of Play, we’ll be dealing with major issues in the gaming community, and we’ll be reaching out to our community for feedback and interaction. Our goal with State of Play is to create a respectful, professional, and insightful dialogue within a group
The tagline reads, “No Warning, No Escape”. No better words could describe the feeling of watching Paul W.S. Anderson’s new action/romance, Pompeii. The movie is set in the Roman city of Pompeii, where Milo (Kit Harington) is a slave turned gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! We here at Movie Issues love a good Blaxploitation action film, and this week we watched one of the best ones in showing us a strong female kicking ass and taking names: Cleopatra Jones from 1973. We follow Cleopatra Jones, who is
A community-driven group of modders is taking on the task of recreating one of the most ground-breaking video games in the early 90s, Descent. Using the Unreal 3 engine, the creators are hoping to recreate the popular game under the name of Sol Contingency.
We’ve all run into it at one time or another. As a literary genre it’s pretty much inescapable. There are a few gems here and there, but the quality is generally middling-to-poor: words churned out by writers who might not excel at anything else. Sometimes we find one that appeals to us, or that we’ve