Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'videogames>'
November 21, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. For those who want to know what this whole Watchmen thing is about, but don't feel like reading the whole book, here's the condensed version. And those who have read the book will find this image of a cute little Rorschach particularly twisted and disturbing... and funny! Do you get irritated by people constantly asking you questions they could easily get the answer......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"November 20, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Apparently there's an artist who goes around making bizarre, fake roadside attractions, including one that commemorates the Union's plan to use dinosaurs against the South in the Civil War. Awesome! Our old friend Toren Atkinson dug up a bunch of fun movie rumors: Frank Miller might direct an adaptation of his own graphic novel, Hard Boiled; Djimon Hounsou will star in and produce......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"November 19, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Cinematical included a lot of interesting nuggets in this post. The writers of Captain America have been chosen; Miley Cyrus could be up for an Oscar; South Park might come to an end with another movie; and Ennio Morricone may be working on the score for Quentin Tarantino's irritatingly spelled Inglourious Basterds. A lengthy interview with Spike Jonze on Where the......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"November 18, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. A movie called War Monkeys is on the way, about "two guys trapped underground with a gang of furious, military-trained rhesus monkeys who are mega-smart and weapon-trained." Wow. It's also described as like "Quentin Tarantino's Gremlins." The director, Kevin Munroe, goes on to say: "It's real horror with real scary elements. You've got real monsters here with the......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"November 17, 2008
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Go and watch this ASAP. It's a bootleg video of the Star Trek trailer, and we don't know how long it's going to be available. For more on Star Trek, check out Sci Fi Wire's interesting interview with the new Kirk, Chris Pine. More on John Boorman's Wizard of Oz! It will supposedly be serious and faithful to the novel. Also,......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"November 14, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. "For the first time, astronomers have taken a visual image of a multiple-planet solar system beyond our own." Very exciting. DARPA's finally going to get us our flying cars! New Watchmen trailer! We still have misgivings, but we have to admit, it looks really, really good. Game|Life takes a look at the long lines for Wrath of the Lich King, and then gives......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"November 13, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Sarah Palin has said whether she runs for office again is dependent on God. So 23/6 is providing us with some handy prayers to try to keep her in Alaska. (Via Sarah) Get Your War On explains what a Barack Obama presidency will really mean. Truly hilarious. We are especially amused by the part about the "special mustache." (Via) We still can't quite......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"November 12, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Get a first look at the new Enterprise! Actually it's the old Enterprise. But you know what we mean. (Via) We're sure you all remember the Sarah Palin porn spoof, Nailin' Paylin. Well, now a Florida-based porn director named Cezar Capone wants to do it with the real thing! He's willing to pay Palin $2 million to appear in an adult......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"November 11, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Google fixed that crazy bug with Android that we mentioned yesterday. Barack Obama may be our favorite president ever! Amongst a list of 50 facts you might not know about him (via, via) are these items: he collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics; he has read every Harry Potter book; his favorite book is Moby-Dick; Casablanca is......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"November 10, 2008
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Oops! The actual shipping version of the Android OS has a rather awkward bug: Anything you type on the keyboard, in any application, is simultaneously sent to a command line shell and executed as the root user. That means if you type "reboot," the phone will reboot. D'oh! Click through for the interim solution. We expect a patch of some sort......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"November 7, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. A great parody image of the presidential and vice presidential candidates as heroes and villains from Batman (via). In other hilarious political news, now that the campaign is over, aides from the Palin and McCain camps are taking shots at one another, and all kinds of nasty dirt about Palin is coming out. Bah ha ha ha! Harry Knowles has a source who......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"November 6, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Sad news: author Michael Crichton died Tuesday of cancer at age 66. Cinematical celebrates his work by picking seven films that were either made by him, or were based on his work. Sci Fi Wire takes a similar tack and picks his best hits and worst misses. You may have seen the vaguely amusing, Risky Business-style commercial for Guitar Hero: World Tour starring......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"November 5, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Pretty much every website we read has something to say about the election. Threat Level on Wired says the internet had a big part in Obama's win (or maybe it was the movies). Cinematical looks back at the seven most memorable campaigners. Check out the Obama for Pizzamerica (via Sarah), and tiny Obama faces sculpted using nanolithography. Play Super Obama World.......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"November 4, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Wired has a couple of fun, presidential photo galleries up for Election Day: A Century of Presidents and Casting the Ballot in Elections Gone By. They've also got a fun story to scare the crap out of you: "optical-scan machines made by Election Systems & Software failed recent pre-election tests in a Michigan county, producing different tallies for......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"October 31, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Cinematical has a lot of interesting items here, including: the news that that Ghostbusters game really will be published by Atari; more pics from Sherlock Holmes; and Brandon Routh says DC has a Brainiac storyline in mind for Superman that he's excited about. More Hollywood director attack ads! A new five minute long trailer for The Day the Earth Stood Still. (Via) A......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"October 30, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Check out this Simpsons parody of the Mad Men opening credits. Apparently it's a leaked clip from the upcoming Halloween special. (Via Sarah) We posted a rumor a while back that they might have changed the ending of Watchmen for the film; now comes the news that Warner Brothers is actually testing multiple alternate endings, with the idea that the one from the......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"October 29, 2008
SECRET CINEMA PRESENTS: NANOOK OF THE NORTH Shot in 1922 by a man named Robert J. Flaherty, Nanook of the North follows an Inuit man through the activities of his daily life. The screening is part of a duo of 16mm films, the latter of which plays next week. Held at the American Philosophical Society Museum, the night opens with an exhibition, called Undaunted, about 5 explorers (including one Mr. Rittenhouse—yes, like the Square). The......
Continue Reading "Cant Miss This!"October 29, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. It's official: Jon Favreau will direct Iron Man 2 and executive produce The Avengers, and Robert Downey Jr. will reprise his role as Tony Stark/Iron Man in both films. Meanwhile, rumor has it that Christian Bale will play Dr. Strange. We like the idea, but we find it hard to believe Warner Brothers/DC Comics would let that happen. Batman in a......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"October 28, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Cinematical did a big long interview with Kevin Smith, but it's so long it's being posted in pieces. This piece is about the title of Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Christopher Nolan talked about Batman in an interview recently. He says he'd do a sequel to Dark Knight, but only if the story was right. Some interesting......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"October 27, 2008
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. An amazing compilation of parodies of that infamous picture of McCain grimacing and apparently attempting to grope Obama. (Via) The best reason yet to vote this Election Day: it'll get you free ice cream. (Via Sarah) Some fun Halloween links: ten epic Halloween costumes (via Sarah); a sound board, cut-out mask, and spooky wallpapers from Angry Alien; Sci Fi Wire suggests......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"October 24, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. You can now vote on Phillies Nation's "I'm the Biggest Phillies Fan" contest. The winner was going to get two tickets to Game 4 of the World Series... until the site got a cease and desist letter from Major League Baseball Advanced Media. Now the winner will get 2 tickets to an exclusive Phillies Nation tailgate party on Sunday night. How about some......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"October 23, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Cinematical's fourth annual costume contest has begun! Check out this awesome Predator pumpkin. Oh, and there are a few other cool things at that link, including a poster for Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino, a fake "bootleg" trailer for The Flash, and the final, real trailer for Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Cool image of Heath Ledger from The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"October 22, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Pretty cool stop-motion animated chess match. (Via Sarah) A new candidate—a new Palin, in fact—has entered the race for president, and we fully support him (via); the five best places to follow presidential polls; beware the Cylons; how Terry Tate, Office Linebacker feels about Palin and voting in the election; a simple quiz to determine whether you are a "real" American......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"October 21, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Oh no! They might've changed the ending of Watchmen for the movie! Microsoft has been granted a patent on technology that censors audio streams in real-time. Finally, Mr. Glasscock will be safe to go back on Xbox Live! We have the date for the North American release of No More Heroes 2, and sadly it's way the hell......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"October 20, 2008
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Woo hoo! Good news for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles! Fox has picked up the show for a full season, ordering the back nine episodes of the second season. In honor of the recent release of Max Payne, Time picks the top 10 worst video game movies. (Via Sarah) Early reviews of Quantum of Solace are in, and they're quite positive.......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"October 17, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Mental_floss points out (with examples!) that the most horrifying monster of all is the bunny rabbit. (Via Sarah) Epicenter at Wired picks the best movies to watch when the economy is going to hell. Check out a very creepy red band trailer for Let the Right One In, a vampire romance that's a lot darker and dirtier than Twilight, and that's getting a......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"October 17, 2008
What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Patti Smith: Dream of Life This documentary about the legendary musician screened at the Philadelphia Film Festival earlier this year, but now it's come back for its regular run in local theaters. The reviews are generally pretty good, and Smith is certainly an interesting and talented subject. We'd see it. Trailer - Freshness Showing at: Ritz at the Bourse Happy-Go-Lucky We can't say we were a......
Continue Reading "CinePhillyist"October 16, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Today's election links: defective yeti's liveblog of last night's debate; a horrifying and hilarious interactive site imagining Palin as President (via Jill); a gallery of McCain and Obama movie posters; Wired offers a place to report any problems you might have while voting; John Cleese gives his opinion of Sarah Palin (via); and Hayden Panettiere takes a shot at John McCain. *snort* Penny......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"October 15, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Terrence Howard's being replaced by Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2. This is sort of good news, insofar as we really love Don Cheadle, but we also feel oddly sad to see Howard go. He really seemed to want to put on that suit. Ah, well. Behold, the hottest movie-related Halloween costumes of 2008! We're happy to hear that "slutty Playboy......
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