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Game Dork — ‘Anarchy Reigns’ wants you to beat up people with your bionic arms
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 31, 2013 3:56pmA conservative sent me a nasty email, because I pointed out in a previous column that “DMC: Devil May Cry” attacks corporate culture and Fox News.
Hey, political people: I don’t create these...
Movie Review — ‘Parker’ boasts strong cast, but plot fails to deliver
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 25, 2013 7:59pmIt’s taken more than 50 years to bring Donald E. Westlake’s master thief Parker to the big screen in all his glory.
Too bad everyone involved couldn’t have devoted another couple of weeks to...
Game Dork — Memories of Mom
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 25, 2013 5:42pmMy heart hurts. My mom died.
This may seem like a funny place to eulogize my mom — a video game column — but I wouldn’t exist here on this page without her.
I remember the only video...
Feature — Sea Wolf singer’s connection to nature reflected in his music
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 18, 2013 2:50pmLAS VEGAS, Nev. — “As long as you like your music, it’s cool.”
Alex Brown Church is talking about the lack of self-consciousness discernible on his band Sea Wolf’s latest record of...
Movie Review — Despite A-list cast, ‘Broken City’ feels to pat to deliver promised thrills
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 17, 2013 6:14pmIt’s not that bad.
That’s some pretty light praise, to be sure. But for a movie whose publicity campaign has been built around tweets from random civilians — who haven’t even seen it — “...
The Politics of Hell — ‘Devil May Cry’ is a cinematic feast that demonizes the Hell of big business
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 15, 2013 3:42pmThe people at Fox News are not going to like this new “DmC: Devil May Cry” game. In it, Hell is a corporate conglomerate. And Hell’s mouthpiece is a Fox News-esque channel that smears human rights...
Feature — Gregg Allman feeling good with solo album, book, tour
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 11, 2013 1:59pmLAS VEGAS, Nev., — Gregg Allman has high praise for Keith Richards’ autobiography:
“His book is lightnin’ man.”
Fortunately, Allman read it after his own memoir, “My Cross to Bear,”...
Feature — Phil Anselmo and Down
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 11, 2013 1:52pmLAS VEGAS, Nev. — Phil Anselmo tends to speak in grave tones, his voice deep and deliberate, his words delivered at the speed of syrup traversing sandpaper.
He sounds purposeful, a little...
Movie Review — Zero Dark Thirty
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 10, 2013 2:25pmJust as there are bad movies you love — here’s looking at you, “Road House” — there are great movies that fail to generate many warm feelings.
Which is why, even though it’s undeniably one...
Game Dork — ‘Journey’ is a spectacular artwork painted on a humble canvas of the unknown
Reviews Comments Updated: Jan 10, 2013 2:04pmI am walking across the desert in a red robe. Beneath my feet, sand sparkles and ripples, as if it were lovely waves of windswept sea. I don’t have the slightest idea what waits ahead.
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