Archive for August, 2007

My thoughts on the skate. demo

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

The skate. demo just went up on Xbox Live Marketplace a couple of days ago, and last night I had my first chance to try it out. Probably unlike most folks following this game, I’ve seen next-to-nothing of it as far as videos or screenshots, just a few little clips on ad banners and [...]

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Deep Water: a race gone wrong

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Deep Water is a documentary detailing the true story of Donald Crowhurst, a businessman who’s company was falling apart during the 1960s. With his company going under, he became desperate for money, driving him to enter the London Times Golden Globe sailing tournament. As an amateur in an around-the-world sailing race, it would [...]

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The Making of Dr. Strangelove

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Several videos have sprouted up of a documentary called Inside: Dr Strangelove detailing the making of the film, one of my all-time favorites. It’s a 5-part series behind-the-scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s classic, the blackest of black comedies. Strangelove has always been mysterious to me. Everything from the odd sense of humor and [...]

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Watchmen Teaser from Comic-Con 2007

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

IGN just put up the teaser poster for the upcoming Watchmen movie unveiled at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego. On the poster is the release date: 03-06-09. Damn that’s a long way off. If Zack Snyder can do with this what he did with 300, I’ll go out on a limb [...]

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