I saw TOWER on Netflix last night and loved it, but Christ was it upsetting. Watching all of these people talk about something so awful that they had no kind of concept for was absolutely chilling. I loved the way the movie was structured with the talking heads and how they brought the survivors in at the end.

But if a person had to pick one out of 4,999 and doom them to solitude and space death they could be overwhelmed by the moral implications of having to choose somebody to die. He doesn't know he's going to need her to save the others when he wakes her up, right?

Man why are all these pioneers in chilling the fuck out so utterly incapable of doing so?! This is like Bill Maher giggling about what a pothead he is, get a personality guys!!!!

. . . is what you could say if that quote weren't actually about the Velvet Underground.

It's been crazy to see how the mini-backlash has affected perceptions of the other games too - Persona3 used to be the black sheep because of clunky party AI and 'emo' bits and now it's building a lot of love online while P4's sunshine and Chie memes have brought in too many normies (upbeat for a game that opens with…

I was just talking with a friend of mine about how Full Throttle feels short but still very satisfying and complete as a story (the action scenes help, I think) whereas The Dig feels like an unusually padded game - if you know what you're doing/have a walk-through for some of the weirder puzzles it takes about the…

Vib-Ribbon is weird because the timing is juuuuust off but the way the game is set up you can practice the off-beat really well.

I need to be pumped. A bunch of limeys who want to be sad girls ain't gonna cut it.

He has a great bit in his monologue to Laurence Fishburne where he describes the original Matrix that was built to have no problems for anyone ever and there's just a little ambiguity in the line, "Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world." A computer's idea of Heaven could be…

Three Kings also has great use of Bart Simpson and Kitty Sanchez.

Great write-up Tom! I think that you do a good job of listing many of the multimedia components that made up the gumbo of influences that the Wachowskis picked and chose for this movie, which has in turn become part of the DNA of so many other stories (the weakest video games to borrow The Matrix's aesthetics are…

Don't worry; in the remake she'll shoot first and crack wise later.

AND HE'S EPILEPTIC! Weaving says in real life he's 'pretty useless' as far as any kind of strenuous physical activity that focuses too much on the left side of his body and there is no question watching this that he could beat you if he wanted to.

Ghost Dog is a bit dated but it delivers exactly what it promises, an action movie written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It's also one of the only movies (esp for the time) but actually makes an effort to incorporate some of the ideas behind hip-hop music into its production and has what is probably RZA's best…

And Seth Rogen said during filming for Zak and Miri that Kevin Smith was a huge influence on him.

Oxford Dictionary dates it to 1962 as meaning "well-informed" and having a specific racial bent. http://blog.oxforddictionar…

That's actually hilarious.

Right but in the article he's saying that the slang usage is contemporary when people were using it in the same way, just less frequently, before he was born.

Ask Alison Bechdel.

I haven't finished the article yet but it bugs me that Kevin Smith says that 'woke' in its current use is modern slang. What he means is modern for white people, the term was absolutely used back in the 60s to convey cultural awareness blah blah blah historicity is important.