August 2008

What’s It About? You pay ten dollars to move some affable characters from a free internet flash cartoon around.  Then the Wii teabags you. What Kind Of Tea? Earl Grey. Or, I should say, Earl Grey’s balls. What’s The Gameplay Like? Like putting all the Wii’s sophisticated motion sensor technology behind an inside joke and [...]

What’s It About? Tom Wilkinson plays a brilliant old lawyer for an evil company who stops taking his medicine for manic depression and like Saul of Damascus turns into a beatific lunatic who fights to do the right thing and in one scene demonstrates that he loves freshly baked bread. Unfortunately for him Tilda Swinton [...]

What’s it About? Morgan Freeman plays a frillier, slightly more feminine and perceptive Morgan Freeman who hangs out with a cute grocery store cashier for a day. In the process, they become best friends, best friends in the world. Is There Singing In A Car? Hell yes, the part where they both sing in the [...]

What Is It? An Xbox360 game. It lives on your Xbox. Your claw hand looking spaceship flies around and shoots at or avoids geometric shapes. Take that, actual high school geometry! Did you know: I failed high school geometry and physics but still managed to read “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” by renowned physicist Richard [...]