Archive for January, 2009

Review: BRIDE WARS (10)

(Originally published by Chud.com)

bride_warsI don’t know why you’re reading this review. Either you’re the sort of person who is inclined to see Bride Wars, in which case I don’t imagine much could stop you. Or you’re not, in which case you’re probably more interested in knowing whether or not The Unborn is crappy enough to earn ten bucks and half a flask of Jack. Or perhaps you thought this was something else, and your eye just skipped over the poster there to the right, like it would if you found a Polaroid of your naked aunt in dad’s sock drawer.

Anyway, I saw this thing. I’m going to write a few hundred words about it, and for a minute we can all pretend not to live in a reality where this movie couldn’t be more critically bulletproof if it was sitting behind the Pope shield. If only this was as easy as writing “the dog dies – 4 out of 10” and moving on. Read the rest of this entry →

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01 2009

The Onion AV Club’s Best Videogames of 2008

For the Onion AV Club’s list of the best games of 2008, each of the writers nominated a couple games, which were then ranked Pazz & Jop style. Each writer came up with text for the game(s) they nominated that made the list. Mine were Left 4 Dead (which owned the top spot) and World of Goo. The piece as a whole is credited to Scott Jones (because he’s like that) and I’ve just excerpted my own bits here.

The entire lineup is at the AV Club.

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01 2009