A definite giant in this summer lineup, Godzilla looked to be one of the year’s best, at least in the official movie trailer. But is it as good as trailer promised? From the gradual reveal of the wide ranging rampant destruction, the hopelessness of mankind’s position as shown by the lack of fighting footage between…
In light of the premiere of The Fault in our Stars, the movie adaptation of John Green’s YA novel, and the inevitable outcry of fans proclaiming, “The book was better!”, I have a confession to make. If any of my friends or family reading this go into cardiac arrest as a result of this unexpected revelation, I…
You would have to be living pretty ignorantly to not notice that media has hit an age of reboots and adaptations. No source material has been deemed to too sacred and better left alone. While this trend may have started with the best intentions, and given us some genuinely wonderful additions to our media across…
In light of the recent article I wrote about interviewing various artificial intelligences – and discovering their plan for world domination – I thought I might look into our second favorite apocalypse. Robots taking over the world is second only to zombies, but why is that? Why do we like robot apocalypses? This won’t be…
Artificial intelligences, or AIs, may not be as developed as Cortana or HAL – yet – but that doesn’t mean we’re not getting there. I decided to venture out into the world to interview three of the more popular AIs to see what I could learn. Here are their stories. Overview Cleverbot is an online feature…
Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, the statue of David – all of these are considered art. Wonderful works of art, to be more precise. Stories, scripts, films, compositions/songs, paintings, architectures, and more are commonly considered art. But technically, so is graffiti and that finger painting of a turkey you made in kindergarten. So for the…
Everyone loves zombies. And why shouldn’t they? There are as many types of zombies as there are people. Heck, there are even love stories involving zombies. Brainsssss Looking around at modern entertainment (and shooting reality TV shows in the head to ensure that they stay down), I hear the moans and see the walkers/zombies/infected/shuffling corpses…
Children of all ages will have, at some point, come into contact with The Moomins, whether it’s because they read the original series of books and comic strips, or sat down and enjoyed the delights of the televised version that broadcast in the late 1980s, early 1990s. Furthermore, even if you weren’t a child of…
Ever dream of being a Pokémon trainer? Capturing them with Pokéballs, expeditions on infinite amount of routes, and entering them in the seemingly shallow Pokemon competitions? Well, if you were a Pokémon trainer, what Pokémon would you want to have? Why, of course, every trainer has their preference: ground, electric, normal, psychic. Although, there are five…
When it was announced in 2010 that Spiderman was getting a reboot, I was as skeptical as you. If we reboot a franchise after only five years, how can we hope for new stories, new characters, or anything new at all? It didn’t help that the reboot was a corporate mandate from Sony over a…
This review was tested on a third generation iPad (2012) featuring only Wi-Fi. I did not have the opportunity to test out gameplay over a cellular network. Hearthstone has been out on PC for quite some time now, wowing players with its addictive card based gameplay. But with its recent release on iPad it’s now…
It’s absolutely no surprise that young girls tend to crush on older guys, but what if that older guy is…their future father? Everyone knows that Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask are destined to be together forever, soon to be Neo Queen Serenity and King Darien, and have a daughter, Small Lady, also known as Rini….
[This article contains only very small spoilers from Seasons 1-3, but none from the most recent season.] Maybe you are serving your fandom well by creating beautiful quality fanfiction. Or perhaps you are braving the wonderful world of soul-tearing creativity and writing your own novel series. Regardless, if you want to pen something that is…
In this age of instant gratification and rampant consumerism, it is we, the geeks, who suffer most. Because we are so hopelessly obsessed with our media, we are hit hardest by having to wait for new stuff to come out. Who among us has not spent time agonizing over when the Batman/Superman movie is coming…
Our tubby, honey-loving anthropomorphic pal, Winnie the Pooh, has had a place in every young child’s heart since its very first appearance in When We Were Young (1924). This Disney-adapted teddy bear, alongside Eeyore, Tigger, and Piglet, thrive in the Hundred Acre Wood, located in Ashdown Forest, Sussex, England, where they play and take life…