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Will MacBook evolution lead to the iTablet?

December 9, 2009

We’ve ruminated at length about the rumoured Apple tablet computer, from the iPhone “dock” that is our Apple Annex, to the Macbook sibling that is our iTablet Excelsior. And with recent clues shoved down our digital throat across the blogosphere suggesting that an Apple tablet will indeed be announced sometime next year, we find ourselves [...]

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Believability sorely lacking in comic/cartoon-derived movies.

March 18, 2009
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Alan Moore of Watchmen fame made a comment recently that we spotted over at io9. The comment hearkens back to the point we tried to make about the upcoming G.I. Joe movie. Namely, that big-screen translations can’t always be authentic, because what works in a cartoon aimed at children doesn’t seem remotely realistic to adults [...]

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BuzzCap: Apocalypto.

September 24, 2008

Warning: spoilers below.

Apocalypto is the touching tale of an Indian a Mexican a Native American who changes colour. He comes from a small village that calls pigs “tapirs”, and hunts them with intricate booby traps that would make Indiana Jones jealous. The chameleone-sque Native American, named Jaguar Paw, is a practical joker, much like all [...]

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The re-emergence of Bones Wiley.

August 12, 2008

We’ve been urging Bones Wiley to update his website, as we know he’s been hard at work coming up with lyrics and new tunes now that he’s back in the United States. While there’s no update just yet, there’s a new video up on YouTube under the name FolkClouds. The video shows a dark figure [...]

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The one time “authentic” means “lame”.

May 17, 2008

Why wouldn’t a child of the 80s find a modern G.I. Joe movie fantastic? Given the veritable success of the recent Transformers movie, a G.I. Joe movie seems like a logical move. That is, until one realizes that G.I. Joe is full of campy nonsense much like the Ewoks that heralded Star Wars’ demise.
When the [...]

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