My boyfriend has the day off work, and he’s been playing The Force Unleashed all day. He’s been working long hours lately on a big project, and I’m glad he took some much needed R&R. I knew he was stressed out, but I clearly had no idea. He’s not just killing Stormtroopers and bosses. He’s [...]

I don’t know what to do. Should I buy it? Am I obligated? I cannot in any way compare this to the quandary I faced when The Phantom Menace came out on DVD. In that case my course of action was clear. I didn’t buy it. I will not buy it, and no Jedi mind [...]

Episode 1: Millions of robots die. Then the whiny diminutive human commits robot abandonment and gets a haircut. Episode 2: Millions of robots die. The whiny human fights Saruman and loses a limb, meaning he gets a shiny new robot arm, making him slightly less lame. In act of flagrant ingratitude, the ninja hobbit fights [...]

Having sequestered myself in the rear of the mammalian’s primitive cinema-dome, I subjected myself to this travesty in the hopes the robots would win. Or at least make a good showing. Once again the mechanized nation was cast as being universally stupid, subservient, and generally useless. At least our animated representatives moved with more realism [...]