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Music Review: Please Describe Yourself by Dogs Die in Hot Cars (2004)

Please Describe Yourself, the debut album from Scottish Indie rockers Dogs Die in Hot Cars, is like your oldest friend that you don't speak to enough. You could go months at a time without thinking about it but when you do rediscover it, it's exactly as you remembered, yet different, somehow always managing to carry new meaning, relating to something completely new to you as if it had known all along and was just waiting for you to realise. It's also an incredibly fun album with brilliant hooks and a diverse range of riffs and bouncy beats nearly all of which seem to inspire a terrific energy in the listener, if not only to keep up with that of the music itself.

Would you pay $1,000 for a Blu-Ray?

This kinda says it all.

How much is a good Blu-Ray worth? Universal Studios certainly hopes that $999.99 isn't pushing it too far. According to /Film September 6th is the date that you'll have the opportunity to show the world just how much you love Scarface with a Limited '1000 copy run' edition on Blu-Ray. What could this possibly come with for a grand? Considering the movie in question, I struggle to imagine anything short of a truck full of finely cut cocaine would live up to such a price.
But that's not what you get. No, you get something arguably better. You get a " hand-painted humidor crafted out of untreated Spanish cedar". One of only 1000! It's entirely possible I may have just died a little inside.
Honestly, I can't begin to fathom the idiocy involved here, They're charging $999.99 for a Blu-Ray with some new extras and the crux of the deal is that you get a goddamn box? There is no way that a responsible studio can justify trying to make almost $1million on a thousand wooden boxes, I don't care if they were hand-crafted by Al Pacino from the wood of his recent acting. It doesn't help that the extras sound just as unrewarding; a scorecard that keeps count of uses of the word 'fuck' and the amount of bullets fired? It's not as if the internet hasn't had this sort of miscellaneous-meets-ridiculous information covered since the birth of online geekery.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for special editions. Regardless or not of whether I'll watch them, I'll always buy the maximum amount of discs available with a movie and yes, I was the guy who bought the Night Vision Goggles edition of Modern Warfare 2. I'm not proud of it. But this...this is my limit. I'm making a statement and putting down a firm answer to Universal's (literal) million dollar question:
No.

Originally posted on Screened.com on March 29th, 2011

The Porn Post

Disclaimer: This is a blog about pornography and it's place as a medium. If you do not feel comfortable reading an article that delves into these matters, you should probably stop reading immediately.

It doesn't matter if you watch porn or not. It has nothing to do with anyone else and little to do with this article, because regardless of whether or not you do watch porn you have an opinion about it. You have assumptions and considerations about that industry and you might even have problems with it. Take the latter, there: a lot of people seem to have problems with porn. It's one of the last great social taboo's and although by the day that particular wall is being chipped away at by people who become more vocal about sexuality it'll never really fall.

Video Game: Batman: Arkham City Trailer Dissection

So I was just checking out No High Scores who had found this new Batman trailer on RPS, who seem to have found it on IGN. Quite frankly, it's pretty awesome.

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I'm really digging the way this trailer works for a number of reasons. It's got a great aesthetic to it, showcasing the mix of gameplay and cinematics that made Arkham Asylum work so well. The music is pretty fantastic and as well as being thematically appropriate has a real gritty buzzing tone to it that sort of reminds me of Angel by Massive Attack. And of course, there's the gameplay which looks pretty identical to Arkham Asylum, aside from maybe some more set-piece oriented bits such as avoiding helicopters whilst gliding (or, you know, gliding straight onto them.)

Let's break this down from the beginning:

Film Review: Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith (2005)

What Star Wars has always done well is basic storytelling. Regardless of the little details scattered throughout the course of the story, The Original Trilogy is essentially a fairytale set in space and it seems that as writer-director George Lucas attempted to broaden his horizons to the political spectrum of the universe he'd created, the illusion began to fall apart with The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. With Episode III-Revenge of the Sith, the story comes full circle with few questions left unanswered and no plot thread of merit untapped but perhaps more importantly it comes closest to capturing the tone and feel of a true Star Wars movie.

Following the end of Episode II, Revenge of the Sith picks up with Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) hunting down the last few leaders of the Seperatist movement, introduced as opposing the Republic in Attack of the Clones. Immediately following the most engaging space battle since A New Hope, Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) of the Republic Senate appoints Anakin to the Jedi Council, in an attempt to corrupt the young Jedi. Despairing over his newly pregnant wife Padme (Natalie Portman) and a series of visions he has concerning her death during childbirth, Anakin turns to Palpatine to learn if the Dark side of the force could hold any answers for saving her.
Compared to the attempts of the previous two prequels, Revenge of the Sith has a more focused presentation choosing to focus on the more emotional dynamic of the core characters than having their world of political intrigue propel the plot. There is plenty of weight to the transition Anakin makes because it his fuelled by a desire to save a loved one, something that anybody can relate to and as events run to their natural conclusion there is little doubt that love is the key motivator as opposed to descending down to the ranks of evil simply for the sake of it. Subtle layers of persuasion are added to Anakin's decision as he seems to become more distressed with his view on the world, initially acknowledging the terrible nature of his actions but eventually being so overcome with confusion that he begins to believe the lies that Palpatine feeds him, accusing the Jedi of conspiring against the Chancellor, the Senate and even himself.