Director:  Oliver Stone Writer:  Andrea Berloff, John McLoughlin Cast:  Nicholas Cage, Maria Bello World Trade Center is the true story of two Port Authority officers who go to the World Trade Center on September 11th and get trapped in the rubble when the buildings come down. The two men are John McLoughlin and Dominick Pezzulo.  When the buildings come down, ...

So Electronics Boutique called up Jen today to let her know that Gears shipped early and arrived today instead of Thursday.  So she took half an hour off her lunchbreak at work so she could finish early and take a bus to the shopping mall before it closed to get the game for me. Then she served up a delicious ...

When all the women of the world are simultaneously unable to conceive, the human race finds itself facing extinction.

Platform:  Playstation 2 Developer:  Sega Publisher:  Sega There is plenty that has been written about Sega’s Yakuza game.  A spiritual successor to the ambitious Shemue series, Yakuza made waves in Japan as one of the first videogames to explore the topic of Yakuza gangs and it is also one of the most expensive videogames ever made. Unfortunately, in my mind, ...

Director:  Rian Johnson Writer:  Rian Johnson Cast:  Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emilie de Ravin There will be a portion of viewers who watch Brick that will find it difficult to get past the gimmick.  It is a high school mystery told in the style of film noir.  This is a film that is stacked with hoodlums, a damsels in distress, a ...

The third chapter of the X-Men films is a bitter disappointment.

Platform:  Nintendo DS Developer:  Nintendo EAD Team 4 Publisher:  Nintendo Some boardroom in Kyoto a year ago: “Let’s make a Mario game” “Sure, why not.  What’s he going to do this time?  Fishing?  Cooking?  Basketball? Mario Party 9?” “No…like, a 2-D Mario platform game” “Wait…with no gimmicks?” “Yeah, just a regular 2-D Mario game.” “…that’s genius” Who knows how it ...

Scales the highest highs

The reason to buy an Xbox 360

A lousy and forgettable launch title