Rec Room

To Hell and Harry

Hell Girl, The IT Crowd
American hetero pornography is, most often, a fantasy celebration of exhibitionist sluttiness, itchy whores on their knees, opening their legs, without a moment’s hesitation or a flicker of shame.

By GERALD PEARY | September 24, 2008

Sith happens

No new lease on life for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Many people regard anything produced in the past 15 years or so bearing the Star Wars brand as total garbage, and rightly so.

By RYAN STEWART | September 23, 2008

Troop surge

Mercenaries 2 does it the old-fashioned way
It’s tempting to write off Mercenaries 2: World in Flames , if only because of the noisy ads — they’re scored by an annoying white-boy rap song.

By AARON SOLOMON | September 16, 2008

I love the ’90s

The CW’s new 90210
When the CW did not send out screeners of the pilot of 90210 some observers took that as a bad sign.

By RYAN STEWART | September 16, 2008

Sight unseen

The fall TV season flies without pilots
Hollywood writers are no longer walking picket lines, but their 14-week shutdown of TV production reverberates through the 2008-’09 fall season.

By JOYCE MILLMAN | September 11, 2008

Back to business

Fall video games offer sequels and few surprises
For the first time, the arrival of the blockbuster video-game season seems bittersweet.

By MITCH KRPATA | September 11, 2008

Crossword: ''Wear some protection''

Heavy, man
Heavy, man

By MATT JONES | September 10, 2008

Greater-than Sudoku XXIII

Psycho Sudoku!
Psycho Sudoku!

By PSYCHO SUDOKU | September 10, 2008

Science? Or fiction?

J.J. Abrams’s oddball Fringe
“It’s not an exact science,” Dr. Bishop says. His wise-ass son Peter interjects: “It’s not even science.”

By RYAN STEWART | September 08, 2008

Nobody's perfect

To err is Too Human
Fair or not, it’s hard to discuss Too Human without bringing in the circumstances of its creation.

By MITCH KRPATA | September 02, 2008

Blood sucks

HBO does the ‘Southern Vampire’
With regard to this whole nouveau vampire thing, this revitalized appreciation for the undead, I should declare myself at the outset a more or less complete philistine.

By JAMES PARKER | September 02, 2008

Tempus fugit

Braid goes in search of lost time
What if you could do things over again?

By MITCH KRPATA | August 26, 2008

Scout's honor

Burn Notice ’s honest con job
In the popular imagination, the spy is always cool, sophisticated, elegant — in other words, European.

By CHARLES TAYLOR | August 26, 2008

Cry babies

Teen talent wails on High School Musical: Get in the Picture
The top brass at Disney knew full well what they were about to unleash when the original High School Musical premiered on the Disney Channel two years ago.

By SHARON STEEL | August 19, 2008

Championship Calibur

The soul still burns for a select few
Ten years ago, you couldn’t take a step through the electronics department without knocking over a stack of crappy fighting games.

By MITCH KRPATA | August 19, 2008

Follow the leader

Geometry Wars 2 shoots and scores
What makes a man lust for the high score?

By MITCH KRPATA | August 12, 2008

Not by George

Robot Chicken: Star Wars
A long time ago, on a bricks-and-mortar soundstage far, far away, the last great Star Wars movie was made.

By MIKE MILIARD | August 11, 2008

Found farce

Spaced makes it to DVD
Simon Pegg is funny.

By MIKE MILIARD | August 05, 2008

Fantastic voyage

A classic RPG gets made over
This is a nostalgia trip worth taking.

By RYAN STEWART | August 04, 2008

Dream on

Aerosmith can’t make Guitar Hero sing again
It is somehow fitting that the Guitar Hero series should follow the trajectory of the countless rock bands who achieve too much success too soon.

By MITCH KRPATA | July 28, 2008