Home » Archive for category "review"

Archive for the ‘ifeaturereview’ Category:


Review: Louie

Published by in review, tv on July 7th, 2012

Format: Television Starring: Louis C.K. Network: FX I’ve been hearing great things about the show Louie, and since the stand up of Louis C.K. is usually pretty good, I decided to see what all the hype was about. Will Louie live up to the name that Louis has created for himself through tens and tens

Review: Magic Mike

Format: Film Starring: Channing Tatum Directed by: Steven Soderbergh I didn’t really know what I expected to see when I went to the theater for the midnight showing of Magic Mike. The lobby was crammed with 40-something housewives all charged up cause they were out of the house, young guys being dragged by their girlfriends

Review: Battleship

Title: Battleship Starring: Liam Neeson and some other people Based On: A god damn board game Hot guy. Explosion. Explosion. Coke Zero™. Hot guy. Explosion. Rihanna. Explosion.

Review: The Adventures of Tintin (Video Game)

Published by in games, review on April 29th, 2012

Format: Game Based on a Film Style: Action/Adventure 2D Platformer Developer: Ubisoft The Adventures of Tintin is a tie in game released to coincide with the film of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg. Most of the time, these licensed title video games are just complete rubbish, rushed out the door quickly in an

Review: GoldenEye 007: Reloaded

Published by in games, review on April 7th, 2012

Format: Video Game Style: First Person Shooter Publisher: Activision The original GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64 stands alongside such games as Doom as one of the originators of the first person shooter craze. Despite being a licensed title, it was one of the truly must-own games for the N64 and along with Mariokart 64, it

Review: 21 Jump Street

Published by in movies, review on April 6th, 2012

Format: Film Starring: Jonah Hill & Channing Tatum Directed by: Phil Lord & Chris Miller (the guys behind the fantastic, if short lived Clone High cartoon series) 21 Jump Street is a comedy based on a much forgotten television show from the 80s that has very little to do with the original show except for

John’s Take on the Current Generation of Portable Gaming

My wife and I got our tax return in early this year and thanks to our horde of dependents, the government kindly returned what appears to be more than we paid in. What else was left to do but piss away our new found wealth on video games along with both of the current portable

Review: iPad 3

Published by in review, tech on March 30th, 2012

Device: Handheld Tablet Computer Manufacturer: Apple Worth It?: Not Really Apple recently released the iPad 3 to much fanfare from the elitist press (who get these things for free) and they all loved it for some reason. Despite stories of the thing running very hot in one corner and their propensity to cost over $700,

Review: Mass Effect 3

Published by in games, review on March 22nd, 2012

Platform:  PS3 [reviewed]/360/PC Developer: Bioware Genre: Sci-fi RPG/Cover Based Shooter In Mass Effect 3, we see the conclusion of Commander Sheppard’s story as he or she attempts to bring together all the races of the galaxy for one last final battle in the war against the sentient machines known as the Reapers. This time the

Review: Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie

Format: Film Starring: Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim Directed by: Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim Adult Swim show creators Tim & Eric (of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame) star in this absurdist humor film that takes their show’s format and extends it out to feature length. Screaming, stutter edits, weird vocal effects,

“‘Full House’ Reviewed” Metareview

Published by in review, tv on February 10th, 2012

Format: Blog Content: Reviews of Full House Episodes Author: “Billy Superstar” You thought you had seen it all on the internet. You thought you could just go to Google and type in whatever nonsense spewed forth from your brain and there would already be hundreds of websites dedicated to that idea. You thought wrong. Apparently

John/Cue\Publik’s Top 5 Affordable Gear Picks of NAMM 2012

Editor’s Note: John/Cue\Publik brings us his top picks from the National Association of Music Merchants 2012 convention. He is a regular contributor and founding member of one of our partner sites, GrimeyRepublik.org, a vibrant hip hop community site. Check them out for great news, reviews, and exclusive tracks. Tis the time of year for all

Review: HTC Rezound

Make: HTC Model: Rezound Carrier: Verizon So I take the phone out of the box and turn it on. Beautiful, now let me plug it into the charger and fill that fat battery all the way up. Oh, what’s this HTC? Did you not get the memo? We decided on a universal charger. What the

Review: Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection

Platform: PS3 Developer: Team Ico Style: Action Adventure Two of the most critically acclaimed games from the last console generation have been remade in HD and packaged on one blu-ray disc. This is a perfect example of “just because the critics say it’s good doesn’t mean it is.”

Review: New Year’s Eve

Directed by: The Guy Who Directed Runaway Bride and The Princess Diaries Starring: Too Many People You Will: Not Be Seeing This. New Year’s Eve follows the lives of like 400 “famous” people as they try to bone each other on the last night of a year. It’s the kind of melodramatic bullshit romantic comedy

Review: The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Special Orchestra CD

Composer: Koji Kondo Genre: Classical/Video Game Score Format: Compact Disc For fans of the Legend of Zelda series, the decision to purchase the latest game, Skyward Sword (official Tears of Time review forthcoming) was a simple one. But what may have gotten lost in the shuffle on launch day was an audio CD included with

Review: Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1

Vampires: Check Werewolves: Check Twilight: Sucks So supposedly you can’t just walk up the midnight showing of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Pt. 1) and just get tickets. But my roommate and I (avg age 28) decided to do just that. I don’t know why we thought going to a theater with thousands of screaming pre-teens

Review: Google Music

Developer: Google Type: Cloud-Based Music Platform Success: ??? I listen to a lot of music. Or at least I used to before I had so much of it that carrying around hundreds of CDs or an externa hard drive (or even a separate device dedicated to music such as an iPod) became cumbersome for me.

Review: Skyrim Collectors Edition

Developer: Bethesda Genre: Collectibles Theme: Dragons The largely anticipated toy of the holiday season hit the shelves a few days ago, and already the fans are going wild with enjoyment. Skyrim by Bethesda is what the kids are talking about this holiday season. Are these mystical dragons, however, all they are cracked up to be?

Review: Modern Warfare 3

Genre: Generic First Person Shooter Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Nintendo of America In Modern Warfare 3, you shoot all of the things. If there is a thing on screen and you aren’t shooting it, then it’s probably just a static part of the setting. Don’t think about using your brain to solve puzzles or timing

© Tears of Time