Tentagil’s Realm

In 1989 Jordan Mechner created a little platforming adventure game called Prince of Persia.  A swashbuckling affair full of acrobatics and sword play set in ancient Persia.  It’s a game I spent a great deal of time with as a child. It would spawn a handful of sequels before the series received a major reboot [...]

I went into Ridley Scott’s new Robin Hood expecting a modern rehashing of the classic legend.  What I received was definitely a modern retelling, but it was more of a prequel to the legend we all know and love.  In fact it’s not until the last ten minutes of the movie that Robin actually becomes [...]

Iron Man was an incredible movie.  It wasn’t just a great comic book movie, it was a great movie period.  Great acting, great special effects, and a well written story.  Of course Hollywood being what it is it had to have a sequel, and since Marvel is gearing up for an Avengers movie in a [...]

Kick-Ass is not your typical comic book movie.  As is typical of Mark Millar’s work is part parody, part homage, and as always features an amped up hyper realistic approach to the superhero fantasy.  I haven’t read the comic upon which its based just yet but it’s easy to see his fingerprint in the film [...]

I grew up watching the old black and white Universal horror films.  Every Saturday on TMC they’d play one of the classics starring Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, or Boris Karloff.  Of all of them Lon Chaney Jr’s depiction of the Wolfman is still one of my favorite films of all time.  So of course when [...]

Although Edgar Allen Poe arguably created the detective genre with his character Auguste Dupin in The Murders in the Rue Morgue the genre was truly popularized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with his creation of Sherlock Holmes in 1887.  I bring up this bit of history merely to give you an idea of how long [...]

Inglourious Basterds, misspelled on purpose, is a classic Quentin Tarantino film.  I say this as both praise and a warning.  To those who are fans of his intelligent and humorous dialogue and ultra violence you’ll love it.  To those who have seen his previous films and didn’t enjoy them, this movie likely won’t convert you.

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Like so many other reviewers District 9 was not what I was expecting.  The trailers painted the picture of a fairly standard sci-fi alien movie.  Aliens land on Earth, a conflict begins, and lots of big battles would commence likely with the human race hanging in the balance.  I went in the theater expecting to [...]

As a child of the 80s I grew up on G. I. Joe.  Next to the Transformers the adventures of the Joes made up some of my favorite cartoon and toy memories.  I used to set up huge battle fields across the living room and play out the battles that I watched every Saturday morning.  [...]

Now people who really know me are probably wondering why it’s taken so long for a Transformers geek like myself to review Revenge of the Fallen.  To be honest it took me awhile to actually see the movie, and then I had to watch it twice to really figure out my true feelings on it.  [...]