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October 30, 2010 Leave a Comment
Every so often, Eurogamer run a series of technical comparison reviews for games released on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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Fallout: New Vegas October 29, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Parisian cop Hubert Fiorentini wouldn’t hurt a fly. Fortunately, none of the local bad guys are flies. After punching his way through another successful case, a weary Chief of Police insists he take two months off to attend to, well, anything other than police work, please. He then receives a phone call from Japan informing him that a former love has died and he is the executor of the estate and can he come over immediately. 7/10 Ticking off just about every mismatched buddy-buddy cop movie cliché you want this is an energetic, fun, straight-forward crime / family drama; an unusual mish-mash of settings with a number of good gags and a policeman with the hardest punch in the world. Ever. Reno rules with a great performance balancing convincing toughness with humanity and deft comic timing (witness the ‘can I have some water’ gag in the hospital, nice gag, sold brilliantly by Reno), director Gérard Krawcyzk keeps things moving (and he also sells the ‘chief’s son’ gag brilliantly via editing), the setting (Japan) was highly unusual for a French film and this fits comfortably into the higher end of Luc Besson’s fun B-movie productions. This movie contains mild swear words and comic violence.
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October 29, 2010 Leave a Comment
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T.J. Hooker 3.13 Lipstick Killer, The (1984) When a nurse is bludgeoned to death with a blunt instrument it rings a bell from Hooker’s detective past. Assigned to assist, he soon discovers that it is a psychotic nurse who always kills one victim within 48 hours of the previous. It becomes a race against time as Hooker tries to close in on the killer that evaded him five years before. 5/10 Clearly inspired by Hitchcock (specifically Psycho and Vertigo) this is a humorously cheesy episode with a cringe-worthy story but strong action sequences. Hooker gets through another police car with a tidy car chase and agreeably huge explosion; later he performs a sweet dive and roll out of the way of a Porsche and that chase also sees the Porsche go spectacularly off the top of a multi-storey car park. The problem comes from the villain clearly being a dude from the outset (the story would have been better if the crimes hadn’t been shown) and villains in drag are not generally convincing in screen entertainment. The other problem is the horribly unconvincing and creepy ‘camaraderie’ of Corrigan towards Stacy which, of course, would only get more unconvincing and creepier. Gah! Links |
October 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Les Diaboliques (1954) 
8/10 Les Diaboliques opens with an excuse for it’s existence and most people will be coming to it because of the connection to Hitchcock’s Vertigo but, as everyone who’s ever seen it can testify, this is a classic in it’s own right. Henri-Georges Clouzot takes a great story, delivers intrigue and tension when he wants to and convincingly builds to a proper scary climax. More attention could have been given to the retired investigator and other teachers at the school to make their parts add fun flavour to the main course but otherwise, this is a must-see masterpiece. This movie contains a single sexual swear word, mild swear words and substance abuse and violence, inferred sexual violence, unpleasant and scary scenes.
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October 22, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Vanquish October 22, 2010 Leave a Comment
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T.J. Hooker 2.11 Connection, The (1982) When a young girl tries to fly off the top of her local high school and an trainee undercover is left fighting for his life after a narcotics bust goes wrong, Hooker vows to find the PCP distributor and put him away. 5/10 Despite the seriousness of school children taking drugs, this is still a very silly episode. That said, a fist fight in the back of a car while involved in a car chase scores good points and Romano gets a full strop on which is always good for a giggle. Additionally, for South Park fans, we get a scene where a woman screams "they’re gonna kill Kenny." Oh, and add undercover narcotics cop, sign language and the ability to shoot two adjacent holes with one bullet to Hooker’s never-ending list of skills. This T.J. Hooker episode contains substance abuse and violence.
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October 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
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T.J. Hooker 2.10 Thieves’ Highway (1982) When independent trucker Zack Pappas gets shot as he tries to run over a local businessman, Hooker knows that something is up and is not surprised when Pappas tells him that the businessman is trying to wipe out all independent truckers and is willing to resort to murderous means if necessary. 7/10 Better than the previous few episodes, this is cheery, cheesy and simplistic fun with a nice big explosion and some wonderfully righteous Hooker posturing and leaping onto bad guys and leaping onto lorries and a battle of hair-spray with a new police commissioner. Add in plenty of synthesised funk beats, Romano in a creepy romance (not with Venus) and an impressively daft blind-drawing sequence to identify a hitman and you start to think that this is something of a classic episode. Not good, exactly, but classic. Oh, and it stars an orang-utan which automatically rules, especially when he’s in the back of Hooker’s car during a chase looking askance at our hero. This T.J. Hooker episode contains violence and mild sensuality.
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October 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Rico is called upon to stabilise an unstable republic by destabilising it via the usual internationally recognised method of shooting hundreds of people in the face. And blowing stuff up. 5/10 Featuring truly impressive game tech and a beautiful environment that feels like a very large golf course, Just Cause falls down because it’s gameplay just isn’t much fun. The highly saturated graphics aren’t matched by highly saturated gameplay with Rico being boringly bullet-proof, and featuring insta-death vehicles, spam rockets and spam helicopters which make almost the entire game a slog. There is one good mission in the entire game (where you had to kill crops) but it ends in a truly joyless multi-part final mission leaving you with a really bad impression. Just remember that it’s the world’s best Magnum, p.i. title sequence simulator and that everything else is just a bonus. This game contains mild swear words, adult dialogue and extended extreme gun violence and sensuality.
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October 18, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Medal of Honor October 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
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The capture and hanging of Lord Blackwood, sinister serial killer, means an onset of unfathomable boredom for consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. The entrance of an old flame, Irene Adler, and the, er, resurrection of Lord Blackwood from the dead, stimulate all his senses satisfactorily. 6/10 Saddled with a plot that lacks cunning, imagination or even much interest and surprisingly short of the director’s witty flourishes, this period buddy-buddy detective movie needs to get by almost solely on the charm of it’s stars. Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams ensure that it does, but only just. The filmmakers expend effort to make the characters appear more rounded and the relationships between the lead triumvirate definitely feel like they have some history. But without any focus on the piercing intelligence of the hero, it loses an opportunity to make that rare beast, an intellectually entertaining Hollywood movie. This movie contains strong violence, extremely unpleasant scenes and mild nudity.
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October 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Nobody can be told what The Matrix is, Morpheus informs "Neo", computer hacker supreme. Everyday, however, "Neo" is mild-mannered computer programmer Thomas A. Anderson who is plagued by the recurring thought that he needs to know what The Matrix is. One day, following the guidance of an apparent dream, Neo eventually meets Morpheus, the man who holds the key to his spiritual unease. 9/10 Science-fiction film presented in an astonishing manner. It would be easy to sniff and list all the places where the story concepts and visual effects had all been seen before but it doesn’t matter. The Matrix captures the attention and presents interesting, thought-provoking ideas with spectacular, extremely satisfying visuals. Frequently, concept art for a movie looks much better than the finished product but here, the movie looks exactly like the concept art. Producer Joel Silver allowed the Wachowski brothers to bring their vision precisely to the big screen and they gave him a definite classic and probably the most influential Hollywood movie since Star Wars. Watch and discuss. This movie contains mild swear words and extreme violence, extremely unpleasant scenes.
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October 14, 2010 Leave a Comment
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T.J. Hooker 3.12 Slay Ride (1983) While Hooker and Stacy are suffering from Christmas blues thanks to the prospect of spending the holiday period alone, they get involved in the case of a couple of armed robbers and their baby who they decide to abandon in a church. 6/10 Despite a very strong start featuring Hooker as Santa Claus executing a narcotics bust (arrest punchline: "Merry Christmas, punk!"), the story side of things gets progressively worse and even the car chases are rather underplayed. Refreshingly, Heather Locklear gets a storyline that doesn’t involve bikinis and impotently jumping into shot after an action scene finishes, Shatner gets a nice scene on the phone to his daughter, and there is still entertainment value to be had in the lead characters as they thoughtfully consider each other’s needs at Christmas time. Links |
October 13, 2010 Leave a Comment
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T.J. Hooker 3.11 Undercover Affair (1983) Hooker interferes with a FBI operation to take down a major drug supplier when people he knows on the street start getting hurt. Then he discovers that an old lover, Paige Miller, is deep undercover as the suppliers’ girlfriend and that is something he really doesn’t like. 7/10 Classic episode in which you are not supposed to notice that Hooker is clearly in the wrong for almost the entire time as he refuses to see the larger picture in the case of an international drug dealer. Good action, great scenery chewing from Shatner and a director who doesn’t underestimate the scenic value of bikini-clad babes in this series. This T.J. Hooker episode contains violence, unpleasasnt scenes.
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October 12, 2010 Leave a Comment
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T.J. Hooker 3.10 Blue Murder (1983) When a scumlord escapes punishment yet again, two cops decide to take things into their own hands and execute him. What will Hooker do when he discovers the truth? 6/10 This is still thoroughly entertaining but the plot is identical to SPOILER Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry sequel Magnum Force and it suffers in comparison. Special mention for the drug dealer’s fantastic car. This T.J. Hooker episode contains gun violence.
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October 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Enslaved: Odyssey to the West October 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
To restore surround sound to Codemasters’ Colin McRae:DiRT for Creative cards under Windows Vista and Windows 7, use the following setting in Creative ALchemy.
Use Registry Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Codemasters\DIRT\PATH_APPLICATION
October 3, 2010 Leave a Comment
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T.J. Hooker 3.09 Matter of Passion (1983) When Hooker discovers the dead body of a beautiful young woman on the beach he determines to exact justice despite being unable to identify her. 6/10 It’s a bit more variable than most episodes with several strong sequences where things are taken far more slowly than is usual for the show. A dead girl’s hand grasping Hooker’s arm makes an impression as does quietly looking around her apartment when they eventually find it. However, the romantic angle is half-hearted (though bikini-heavy) and there are two notably naff sequences where the bad guys attempt to assassinate Hooker (the car bomb even uses recycled footage from an earlier episode, badly). As a bonus, Romano does manage to wear the worst funeral suit in television history. This T.J. Hooker episode contains violence, mild unpleasant scenes.
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October 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
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T.J. Hooker 3.08 Trial, The (1983) When Romano gets shot (again), he blames Gina Canelli, a young female officer who he and Canelli’s partner claim could have shot the suspect. Hooker agrees to defend Canelli at the trial much to Romano’s chagrin. 5/10 This is not a well-written episode as most things happen unconvincingly but necessarily for the plot to continue. Therefore, we have Hooker acting as a lawyer in a police tribunal and most of the dialogue and plot therein appears to have been written by somebody who watches Hollywood television trials as opposed to someone who is aware of the law. A couple of minutes after Hooker prevents a previous incident being brought up against his client, he brings up a previous incident against a witness, braeking him. The episode is well-paced and interesting, however, as there is friction between Hooker and Romano and, while there’s not enough time to squeeze in a full-size car chase, a baddie does drive around a corner and into a florists, and that’ll have to do. This T.J. Hooker episode contains gun violence, mild gory and unpleasant scenes.
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October 1, 2010 Leave a Comment
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T.J. Hooker 3.07 Child is Missing, A (1983) Hooker follows a child kidnapper all the way to Mexico. 5/10 This episode is a little let down by an unusually flat William Shatner and the unconvincing Hooker-strides-into-Mehico storyline. But we still get two car chases, several lovely ladies, Hooker thrown down a flight of stairs and an interesting climax that sees Hooker look like a thug because he isn’t wearing his uniform but is still behaving as though he is. As I was watching this episode, I kept thinking to myself how reminiscent the music was of Robert Zemeckis’ 1984 action hit Romancing the Stone. As it turns out, this episode was scored by Alan Silvestri, the composer on Romancing the Stone, exploring the Mexican rhythms he would employ the following year. Links |
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