AltWeeklies Wire
Summer of Celluloidnew
A look at every summer film worth mentioning, bearing in mind that a few are worth mentioning solely because they look really, really bad.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman, Joe Keohane and Rachel Ahrens |
05-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Directors, Multiple Titles
E3 2005new
E3, the video game industry’s annual expo to end all expos, is a massive 70,000-geek orgy of hypnotic game demos and equally hypnotic booth babe cleavage.
Dig Boston |
Seth Donlin |
05-25-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sithnew
Revenge of the Sith packs all the punch of your 12-year-old sister, complete with dialogue so agonizing, it’ll actually make you appreciate Lucas’ love-scene scripts. Yeah, you heard us.
Dig Boston |
Adam Sith |
05-25-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Battle Rhymes Primed for the Big Timenew
Copy has “a way with words like alphabet soup on a triple beam.” His quiver is bloated with hedonistic darts for anyone who likes to unscramble wordplay.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
05-19-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Copywrite
Raze's Hellnew
Would you pay good money to see the combined cast of Tiny Toon Adventures and Muppet Babies get torn apart by a mob of vicious apes? Well, if you answered yes to any one of these questions, then you need to pick up a copy of Majesco's latest third-person shooter, Raze's Hell.
Dig Boston |
Seth McM. Sonlin |
05-19-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
ON “PWN3D!!1!”new
That’s pronounced "owned" -- an exciting variant of schadenfreude; as cultural attitudes go, it’s blowing up. All across the Web, people are tuning in for quick peeks of other people hurting or humiliating themselves.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
05-19-2005 |
Commentary
The Man Behind the Self-Cleansing Filmnew
Meet the Utah-based head of CleanFlicks.com: the man who claims to have started the whole DVD-sanitization craze among various Values Belt boobs.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
05-19-2005 |
Media
Stereophonics: Not Taming Any Unicorns Just Yetnew
The Stereophonics equally pride themselves on writing hits and hemorrhaging fans.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
05-13-2005 |
Music
PC Home Theatrenew
Hollywood will soon be rolling out its summer blockbusters to wow us with impressive cinematics and thundering THX sound. But why go to the movies for sensory overload when you can get the same experience at your computer?
Dig Boston |
Seth McM. Donlin |
05-11-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
New Releasesnew
May continues to be a hot month for video games, with well over two dozen games released to date. Whether you're a fan of gritty RPGs, sweeping historic war games or silly cartoon adaptations, this week has got something for you.
Dig Boston |
Seth McM. Donlin |
05-11-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Monster-in-Law Causes Critic to Search His Degenerate Soulnew
In this light sitcom-style flick, J Lo rolls up her chinchilla-trimmed sleeves to grapple with Hanoi Jane, while Wanda Sykes dislocates her vagina.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
05-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Luketic, Monster-in-Law
Neil Hamburger: Crazed Comedian Punches Hollywood in the Titsnew
Neil Hamburger, the master of audience discomfort, is back with brand-new material (and no more riffs on Calvin Coolidge). And if you're not laughing, well, maybe you just don't speak English.
Dig Boston |
J. Bennett |
05-11-2005 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Jade Empirenew
You can't go wrong with a stacked ninja-babe kicking all kinds of ass -- except when mastering her moves is something along the lines of memorizing the quadratic equation.
Dig Boston |
Seth McM. Donlin |
05-11-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Everything But the Girl Vet Goes Deepnew
Ben Watt -- the "everything but" half of Everything But the Girl -- goes house on the Dig.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
05-06-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Watt, Buzzin' Fly, Volume 2
Post-Commie Fun With Hungarian Subway Employeesnew
With tight cinematography and black humor, this Hungarian film reveals the secret lives of subway hall monitors.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
05-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nimród Antal, Kontroll
