Friday, June 11 2010
iPhone 4: Wherein Science Fiction Once Again Becomes Sad Fact
Aside from lightsabers, proton packs, warp drive and teleportation, many of my favorite sci-fi gadgets have become a reality. The latest: iPhone 4.
Thursday, May 6 2010
Does the Suit Make the Iron Man, or Vice-versa?
Tony Stark has a big personality that far outsizes his Iron Man 2 suit of armor, but sometimes our movie men are "made" by their suits.
Thursday, April 29 2010
Robert Culp: From ‘I Spy’ to ‘Hickey & Boggs’
Robert Culp and Bill Cosby's wit and warmth in I Spy also established a foundation of fragility and fatalism for Culp's despairing Hickey & Boggs.
Thursday, December 10 2009
Santa Claus: Super Hero Icon and Religious Figure
Kris Kringle has flesh-and-blood status and is a religious secular figure. He is Superman, Peter Parker, Bruce Wayne, Gandalf the White, James Bond, Dr. Who and James T. Kirk all rolled into one.
Friday, December 12 2008
Quantum of Solace
The hybridization of Quantum of Solace's first person mechanics with gameplay styles more often found in third person action titles lends the Bond game a curiously more elegant and thoughtful approach to first-person shooting.
Wednesday, December 10 2008
Quantum of Solace
What truly shines in Quantum of Solace is the single player mode, not the multiplayer that the series has become notorious for.
Friday, November 14 2008
Quantum of Solace
Bond (Daniel Craig) seems done in by the notion that M is indeed his maternal superior, and so he must please her, or at least pretend that he's playing by rules that he and she and all the rest of us know he disrespects from jump.
