by shezcrafti | May 30, 2009 | Reviews & Opinion, Stuff I Watch |
Pardon the vampire pun, but there’s nothing worse than getting sucked into an awesome new TV show only to find out it has already been canceled. My latest letdown was over the CBS series Moonlight, a show about a vampire P.I. living in modern-day Los Angeles who...
by shezcrafti | May 3, 2009 | News & Links, Reviews & Opinion, Stuff I Watch |
What can you do with $3,000 and a group of dedicated LOTR fans? Make a kick-ass fan movie, that’s what. The Hunt for Gollum is a 40-minute fan-made film based on the Lord of the Rings books and movies. And more importantly, it’s good. Surprisingly so....
by shezcrafti | Apr 16, 2009 | Gaming, Reviews & Opinion |
Surprise is a rare feeling for me to get from most games nowadays, but The Lost Crown is a rare breed of game—the kind that draws you in slowly, peeling away each rich layer of story, slow and methodical. You are Nigel Danvers, treasure hunter and paranormal...
by shezcrafti | Feb 26, 2009 | Gaming, Reviews & Opinion |
How many times have you gotten stuck in an adventure game because you missed one tiny little pixel you somehow neglected to click? Or because you couldn’t make sense of the convoluted story hinted at within the 300 pages of books and diaries the game expects you...
by shezcrafti | Feb 20, 2009 | Gaming, Reviews & Opinion |
Remember the sheer awesomeness of Sonic the Hedgehog? Remember how great the 6-button controller was? Remember Sega Visions magazine? I got my first glimpse into that 16-bit world one summer when my older cousin came to visit and brought along his shiny new Sega...
by shezcrafti | Feb 11, 2009 | Reviews & Opinion, Stuff I Watch |
Coraline is one of those movies I knew I would love before I even knew anything about it. Between being written by fantasy god Neil Gaiman, directed by Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas), and featuring dark and dreamy stop-motion visuals, it just had my...
