[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/ghost_rider.mp3] There was a time when superheroes subscribed to a certain template. If the handsome face of the hero’s alter-ego didn’t emerge from the phone booth in brightly-colored tights and a complimentary cape, he simply wouldn’t be welcome at the Superfriends clubhouse. As time went on, it was realized that this sort of pigeon-holing was… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Ghost Rider
Category: Reviews
First Impressions: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
The environments have some great detail. If you’re even tangentially connected to video games that deviate from the big cash-cow options of linear, realistic first-person shooters and endorsed sports simulations, chances are you’ve heard of a game called Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. After all, it isn’t often when a new IP makes it out of… Continue reading First Impressions: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! History of the World, Pt 1
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/history_of_the_world.mp3] Satirists are more important to civilization than you might think. While critics may highlight, underscore or outright assault a work in a mostly straightforward manner, a satirist does so through humor or hyperbole. It’s no wonder that satirists tend to be more popular, even if some periods of history were less tolerant of them… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! History of the World, Pt 1
An Open Letter to C. Matthew, Re: The Departed
Dear Confused Matthew, With all due respect, sir, I disagree. I was under the impression I’d said all that was necessary about Martin Scorsese’s The Departed in my own review of the film. However, your recent embarkation upon an anti-Departed tirade has inspired me to go a little more in depth on the film. I… Continue reading An Open Letter to C. Matthew, Re: The Departed
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! The Wolfman
{No audio this week on account of my own lycanthropic rampage.} There was a time when movie studios didn’t mind being associated with the unusual and the macabre. For years, Universal Studios seemed rather proud of its men becoming monsters. Bela Legosi inhabited the castle and cloak of Count Dracula, Boris Karloff took a couple… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! The Wolfman
Book Review: Double Dead
Ever wake up on the wrong side of the bed? It’s terrible. You’re bleary-eyed, groggy, sore from where your spouse has been elbowing you in the ribs all night to stop your snoring… and you’re starving. It’s that stomach-gnawing hunger you just can’t shake until you’ve devoured half the pantry. If that sounds familiar, you’ll… Continue reading Book Review: Double Dead
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Bunraku
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/bunraku.mp3] Bunraku is a preposterous title for a film, and also slightly pretentious. It refers not to a character or a location, but rather a type of Japanese shadow play, a theatrical production using puppets that tells broad stories based on archetype and fable. It’d be like naming Flash Gordon “Raygun Gothic Adventure with Queen.”… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Bunraku
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Dirty Harry
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/dirty_harry.mp3] In an ideal world, police officers are sworn to serve the public trust, protect the innocent and uphold the law. Even in our fiction, even when they’re no longer fully human, we’d like to think that there’s some sort of compassionate protection between those of us abiding by the law and those driven to… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Dirty Harry
First Impressions of Section 8: Prejudice
Most of the Steam sale madness has finally died down now that the holiday season is behind us. I’ll probably be writing full reviews of several titles I picked up recently, but for the moment I want to give my first impressions of a game I bought at the behest of His Majesty TotalBiscuit, Ye… Continue reading First Impressions of Section 8: Prejudice
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/fear_and_loathing.mp3] The American Dream. We’ve all heard of it. Politicians love to talk about it. People come from distant shores seeking it. All sorts of products promise to give it to you for three easy payments of $99.95 plus shipping and handling. But what is it, really? Has anyone really achieved it? And where do… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
