A bunch more things we’ve seen lately, if only to get that cow picture off the top of my blog newsfeed.
Our Idiot Brother: Sweet! Paul Rudd plays a chronically optimistic and naively trusting brother to a bunch of cynical sisters who are ignoring their problems, and as he couch-surfs through their lives he [...]

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When you’re working on a project it’s easy to talk people’s ears off about it, so I’ve been trying to bite my tongue about all the excitement surrounding the launch of our new game Sideway: New York. It’s hard though, when you get reviews like this 9.0 at EGM. (Cue electric guitars and fireworks!)
“And while [...]

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We haven’t been watching a lot of movies this summer, but on very hot days we retreat to the basement (or to the movie theatre) to take advantage of the air conditioning. A bunch of quick movie reviews!

Horrible Bosses – Hilarious but don’t think about it too hard – Natasha and I thought [...]

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I’m just now discovering Jakob Nielsen’s excellent (but 5 years old) summary of the inequality of internet community participation. The gist is just that studies prove what you already suspect: 90% of users are lurkers, 9% post now and then, and 1% are prolific contributors on any site.
Fun fact: At the time [...]

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Defendor – Awesome! – Woody Harrelson is utterly convincing as a mentally ill vigilante super-hero wannabe, beating up villainy with a trench-club and diving off of rooftops into dumpsters to thwart Captain Industry – who he blames for his mother’s murder. He does the “Batman Voice” even better than Christian Bale. The ethics of the [...]

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Here’s the most recent in my long-running series of knee-jerk reviews of popular films.
Valentine’s Day – Cute – Saw this on our anniversary intending it to be a fun date movie and it came through. The plotlines are extremely formulaic and predictable and a few bits could have been cut to make it flow a [...]

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Here’s a bunch of mini reviews since I’m a little behind the binge of rentals and lenders we borrowed this week.

Taken – Really Cool – Liam Neeson plays an ex-covert-ops guy who’s daughter is kidnapped. So he basically flies to France and beats -everyone- up. He’s got a great technique, too – mostly walking up [...]

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So my dad accused me of being unfairly negative in my last set of movie reviews – he made a case for “Next” which I’ll grudgingly concede was based on a clever premise, but Starksy and Hutch I’m not bending on.
Just so I don’t get a reputation for being mean in my reviews… a few [...]

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I need to save you from watching bad movies!
Next: Meh. Ewww, Nicholas Cage and Jessica Biel as a couple. A quick check in IMDB shows that he’s nearly 20 years her senior – while Julianne Moore, who’s actually really intelligent, beautiful, two years older than him and deserves to be in a better movie, is [...]

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