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Inq. of the Week: Video Formats?
There are tabletop RPGs that focus on story? Seriously, how many people actually like that kind of stuff? I’m kidding, of course, but that’s what our Inquisition last week focused on – What’s your experience with story games/i...
YouTube Tuesday: We Were Googled Edition
Because I’m so excited that it’s finally been released to the public, I present to you “Googled”, a short film based on one of my short stories that previously appeared in the Welter literary journal. Even though I wrote it, I...
YouTube Tuesday: Obi-Wan Uncensored Edition
NSFW language. Real quick but great....
YouTube Tuesday: What Would Gordon Freeman Do? Edition
What happens when video game characters come to life, giant sized, and terrorize the city (and in particular, a group of video game fans)? You get Cloverbrawl, this 20 minute film that is amazingly made ......
YouTube Tuesday: I Am Super Lucky Golden Iron Man Edition
Test animation for an Iron Man anime, the final of which is to be written by Warren Ellis. Below, a similar test animation for the Wolverine anime, also to be written by Ellis, but that ......
Inq. of the Week: Non-RPG Content?
Well voting for the ENnies closed over the weekend, first and foremost I'd like to extend our thanks and appreciation to everyone who voted for us! No matter what you ranked our site compared to the others, they all help and hopefully we will be ple...
YouTube of the Week: Hey! Edition
Pretty self-explanatory. (via @betterwithmayo)...
YouTube Tuesday: Darkness Falls Across The Land Edition
Say what you will about the man, he did give us dancing zombies, which lead to the above....
Transformers 2: Expectations?
In what is a rare occurence for my wife and I, we did not go to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at a midnight showing last night. It's not because of the Tuesday night issue, we went to see The Dark Knight at midnight on a Wednesday (though ...
Inq. of the Week: Quinto vs. Quinto
A while back, over two years ago it seems, we had an epic showdown Inquisition between Ian McKellen and Ian McKellen...errr, I mean between Gandalf the White and Magneto! The mysterious White Wizard ending up kicking considerable ass in the poll, bu...
YouTube Tuesday: In Brightest Day, and Blackest Pony Edition
Two fake trailers for existing properties: above, the My Little Pony movie trailer that takes a different tact than you might expect, and below, a Green Lantern trailer thatputs the emerald ring on the capable hands of Nathan Fillon....
Marvel’s X-Men Movie Mistakes
Stemming from some of the comments on Darth Cthulhu’s ‘controversial’ Star Trek post, I started thinking about the first X-Men movie and its relation to the rest of the franchise now that X-Men Origins: Wolverine ......
The Contrary Opinion - J.J. Abram’s Star Trek (With Spoilers!)
If one takes the glowing reviews of J.J. Abram’s Star Trek as a representative sample of the populace, most people love this movie. I am not most people. That is not to say that I despise ......
Fascinating, Captain
As I sat watching Star Trek on Sunday, I was struck with a strong (but familiar) thought: “damn, I really want to run a campaign set in this. “ About 4 years back now, I tried starting ......
Inq. of the Week: The Stars Are Trekkin’
Over the weekend, I caught the newest entry in the battle between Star Wars and Star Trek, as the Federation Strikes Back with the new update, featuring a rebooted franchise and cast (with one exception). I was not alone in this, as many showings wer...
YouTube Tuesday: The Preciousss Edition
Above is the trailer for The Hunt for Gollum, a 40 minute fan-made prequel to the Lord of the Rings movies, and it looks pretty darn good. If you like the trailer, you can watch ......
Inq. of the Week: The Stars are Warring?
It happens to be May the 4th, and a Monday, so I couldn't let this go by without doing a Star Wars based inquisition of the week. With what could possibly be one of the corniest geek habits of using dates to make inside jokes, "May the 4th be with y...
YouTube Tuesday: “I can make a lightsaber out of wire, a battery, and a wineglass” edition
McGuyver opening + Star Wars. Pretty straightforward but fun....
YouTube Tuesday: Spin Kick vs. Repulsor Edition
Just a quick, well done stop motion video of Bruce Lee fighting Iron Man....
Inq. of the Week: Summer Movies ‘09
Last week The Main Event posted an Inquisition on a topic that I love to discuss, power creep in 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. With people voting on which parts of the PHB2 they thought ......
Inq. of the Week: Who Watched the Watchmen?
My sense when it was being advertised, and especially after seeing it, is that the movie is something of a tough sell. It's long, it's R rated, and it's fairly high concept as far as movies with this kind of advertising budget go. Early box office re...
Watchmen…
…is to become Saturday morning cartoon… !? Watchmen is a serious, serious bit of graphic novel, even with meta-powered individuals populating its story. Written by psychedelically charged soul-delver Alan Moore, it is a seminal ......
Watchmen Weekend Critical Bits
An illustrated history of Watchmen from page to screen Watchmen Sketchbook How The Studios Would Have Ended Watchmen (A Storyboard) Top Ten Things Geeks Can Learn About Dating From Watchmen Ombudsman (5 part series) CBR’s Watchmen Coverage Watc...
Review: “Watchmen”
It's funny for a movie that is supposed to be so faithful to the book (that I have read through many, many times) that I did my best to avoid spoilers. I wanted to dive in and make the comparisons myself, without hearing what critics have to say. I a...
How Not to Review ‘Watchmen’
I just wanted to highlight something I read today in the lunch room at work, our local newspaper the Washington Post had a review of the movie Watchmen on the front page of the Style ......
YouTube Tuesday: No, Seriously, It’s A Trap Edition
Admiral Ackbar knows a trap when he sees one. If only the Corleone family had hired him....
Inq. of the Week: Watch What you Read?
This Friday is the release date for the Watchmen movie, and for me now is a good time to be thankful that the lawsuit involving the movie rights didn't result in this date being pushed back! With that in mind I'm sure we'll be talking about the movi...
New Feature: Guide to Gaming DVDs
Our newest feature is up, and it's a bit different than the previous ones. It's a Guide to Gaming DVDs, showcasing both those that star gamers as central characters and ones that are officially Dungeons & Dragons (as much as we might try to diso...
Review: “Fanboys”
It has taken a journey worthy of the Hero Cycle: the movie Fanboys, written over a decade ago before Phantom Menace came out, has struggled against setbacks and massive executive meddling, has finally been released. It was many years in development a...
Comic to Movie: Lost in Adaptation
Not long ago I was quite excited to see the movie adapted from the very good comic book, Wanted. This excitement was spurned by a few non comic readers saying that the movie was great, ......
