Tag Archives: review

Film Review: Oz The Great and Powerful

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

So I went off to see the Wizard this past weekend. I was very eager to see it. I’ve loved The Wizard of Oz for most of my conscious life. I was introduced to it through the famous 1939 film … Continue reading →

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Make-It Me: A Film Review of Wreck-It Ralph

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

When I first saw previews for Wreck-It Ralph, I admit that my expectations were not very high. I immediately thought two things: first that the CGI would be an excuse for a poor story-line and that, second, it would be … Continue reading →

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Sea Shells, See Shells by the Sea Shore: A Review of C. Anthony Martignetti’s Lunatic Heroes

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

I have been looking forward to reading C. Anthony Martignetti’s Lunatic Heroes: Memories, Lies and Reflections for some time, and now that I have finished reading it, I find I have a lot of different things to say. In fact, … Continue reading →

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Film Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

So now I’m going to do an actual review of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey. And yes, there will be spoilers in addition to Middle-Earth references. So watch the movie first please, and I will try to be … Continue reading →

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Peering at the Plumbing of a Classic: Super Mario RPG

Posted on November 22, 2012 by

From what I could remember, I’d never played a video game RPG. It was the mid-nineties and I’d played a few adventure games, but I never really thought of them at all. Whenever I did, I heard mostly about Secret … Continue reading →

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Going to the Moon With Kan Gao

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

“To the Moon, Alice! To the Moon!” The obligatory Honeymooners reference aside– a bit of humour which Doctor Neil Watts, one of the game’s protagonists, would truly appreciate–I would like to talk a bit about Kan Gao’s video game To … Continue reading →

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I Would Have Gotten Away With It Too, If It Weren’t For Those Meddling Squids! A Review of Cephalopods: Co-op Cottage Defence

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

I played this game for one day–just one day–and I hate green Squids. Not the luminous blue ones, or the black ones. Not even the exploding fiery orange ones. The Greens. Just the Greens. So I made an unexpected trip … Continue reading →

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Art Consumes Life: The Shadow of the Vampire

Posted on October 25, 2012 by

I wrote this review in 2009 or 2010 in another Journal while I still lived on campus. I’ll just warn you now that I liked to use big words then: especially back in those days. When I use the word … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

One evening, when I was living downtown, I came across a book in a church-run thrift store. It was this big thick-paged book with a very luminously colourful ornate cover. I’d never ever heard of The Invention of Hugo Cabret … Continue reading →

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An Interactive Music-Making Epic: TweakerRay’s Collector Chapter 02

Posted on August 30, 2012 by

Many posts ago, I set myself the challenge of writing something about Sarah Howell’s silent comic. Today I’m doing the exact opposite. I have been given the challenge of writing an article on a music CD: namely TweakerRay’s Collector Chapter … Continue reading →

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