On the subject of Richard Donner

We just published a new article at Commentarium. It’s about Richard Donner, director of iconic movies such as The Omen, Lethal Weapon, The Goonies, Ladyhawke and Superman. His is really a case of the work overshadowing the man; he gets very, very little critical appreciation, even though his movies have …

Kittendragons, games, and other things.

I’ve made some real improvements to some of the levels in Phenomenon 32. This makes me very happy; they just didn’t feel right before, and now they do. Tomorrow I’ll add a couple more areas. Then I’ll playtest the game and see if the new numbers work. And then it …

New at Commentarium

New articles at Commentarium: La Hora Fría Lost Made Them Do It: Five Musical Lost Videos Green Zone Alice in Wonderland: Two Perspectives And coming up tonight: Survival of the Dead We’re not managing to update every day, but so far we’re both very pleased with the articles, and have …

Things that are occuring

This is what is new or imporant today: Follow the Commentarium Twitter Feed to get our reactions to the Academy Awards live. Recently at Commentarium: Can Lost pull it together? Made some progress on Phenomenon 32. The new save system is almost ready. That’s it, really.

Commentarium!

We are very pleased to announce that Commentarium.net, our new film & television website, is up and running. It’s going to be a great deal of fun – for more details about what kind of website we’re envisioning, you can read the first post, or you could skip straight ahead …

RPGcat Episode 1: Risen

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am glad to announce the beginning of a new webseries, dedicated to wonderful and enlightening reviews of computer RPGs, brought to you by the one and only, the magnificent, the wise, the amazingly admirable… RPGcat! Yes, one of my secret projects has finally come to light. …

Avatar wins

Avatar is now officially the most successful movie of all time. Now I just need to finish Phenomenon 32 so that I can write that long article that explains why this is a good thing, and why all the people who scream “racist!” the moment they see the film are …

Dollhouse: The Hollow Men

Wow. It has been a spectacular journey, watching this show go from crappy to almost decent to interesting to total failure. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show crash and burn this badly. Even the last episode of Battlestar Galactica had redeeming features. At least it made me feel …

Grrrrraaaaaargh

You know, this “Avatar is racist/Avatar is Dances with Wolves, but with aliens” shit is getting on my nerves so badly that it’s distracting me from finishing Phenomenon 32. Can no-one actually have a closer look at something and think before they speak? Basic logic and observation will show that …

AAAAAAAARGHbleurghvomitexplode

OK, so Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen really is the worst movie I have ever seen. Or at least in the bottom 3. It’s worse than Red Dawn, which is saying something. It’s racist, sexist, militarist, badly edited, badly written, badly acted, badly directed, boring and above all dumb. More …