Reviews

King Solomon’s Mines is the first adventure novel set in Africa and it created a whole new genre of literature. It was the inspiration for the Indiana Jones movies and the book itself was made into six movies featuring its main character, Allan Quatermain. Read More

Composer Mark Isham has said, “the score for Warrior has an extremely wide dynamic and dramatic range; perhaps more than any other score I've composed.” While this may be true quantitatively (there is definitely a wide range musically between certain Read More

The first installation of The Rinse is super rad — a quick and fun, gritty read that I really enjoyed. And I’m left hanging on for the next installation now too. I can’t wait. I really loved this, for everything: the artwork, the storyline, the Read More

Sci-Fi’s Finest - Volume One is a compilation of three dozen songs and themes from the best that the offbeat side of entertainment has to offer. For someone who has about 60 theme songs on her own iPod, this is a dream come true album. Read More

If “witty” orchestral music seems like a foreign concept, I think the perfect place to begin exploring it can be found in the music of Michel Legrand. The endlessly clever melodies and orchestrations sound wonderfully fresh on this album. Read More

After all of the information and speculation, whining and expectations, covers and character sketches, final issues and truncated storylines, the day has finally arrived. Justice League #1 has been released, and at last I have a copy of it in front of me. Read More

In the directorial debut of Joe Cornish, this British adventure movie manages to present the familiar adolescent-finds-an-alien storyline in a way that's both fresh and entertaining. Attack the Block delights in retooling expected story lines, almost Read More

The soundtrack of this fourth installment of the Spy Kids movie franchise might be described as Mission: Impossible meets The Pink Panther, with a bit of James Bond thrown in for good measure. In addition to directing the movie, Robert Rodriguez Read More

ZEN Studios has been great about keeping the new table releases coming, and the latest one arrives this week with a pinball table based on Twisted Pixel's Ms. Splosion Man. Read More

For quite a while, BBC has been releasing two classic Doctor Who adventures a month on newly remastered DVDs, chock full of special features. For September they've scaled back to one title, but it's a good deluxe set that features some of the Doctor's Read More

While perusing my cable’s On Demand channel I stumbled upon a nice little series of web shorts by the Syfy network called The Mercury Men. Writer/director Christopher Preksta produced the six- to nine-minute webisodes. It’s the story of men from the Read More

Long before House launched into his first medical investigation, there was Dr. Joe Gannon, the hero doctor of a California university hospital in CBS's Medical Center. The Warner Archive recently brought the first season to DVD as part of their Read More