1013 articles on Entertainment

  • Review: With Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson Crafts a Living Instagram Photo
    In Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson's latest movie, two 12-year-olds fall madly in love with each other on an island off the New England coast in the summer of 1965. Sam sports a raccoon cap, geeky glasses and a scout uniform; Suzy wears lurid blue eye makeup that never seems to come off, and earrings made of fishhooks. Their young love is doomed, of course, and so they run off into the wilderness together, drawing the ire of the adults around them.
    06.01.12
  • Review: Test Driving the 2012 McLaren MP4-12C
    Supercars should look like sex. This is what the voice inside my head has been insisting since I was 14 years old, when the very same (if slightly less mature) spirit guide led me to hang a Lamborghini Countach poster above my bed and doodle Ferrari Testarossas all over my Pee Chee folders. But somehow, to ...
    06.01.12
  • Product Review: ION Audio's Piano Apprentice System
    The ION Audio Piano Apprentice is a fun, unique way to introduce a young musician to the piano. The Piano Apprentice combines a 25-key keyboard with an iOS-compatible device and the free Piano Apprentice teaching app available from the Apple App Store. The app works with or without the keyboard.
    06.01.12
  • Review: In Dark Huntsman, Snow White Is an Enchanting Badass
    Snow White and the Huntsman was concocted using curious alchemy: It's a feminist retelling of one of the oldest fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, orchestrated by a first-time director whose previous credits were in commercials. The film casts an Oscar winner as an evil queen, America's next action hero as a drunk knight-in-shining-armor type (minus the armor) and cinema's coldest vampire plaything as the titular princess.
    06.01.12
  • Why Expatriation Is Good for Your Kids, But Also for You
    When I turned 21, I left the comfort of my home country to study abroad. In June 2004, I landed in Texas to attend a biomedical research program at Texas Tech University. First thing I realized when I arrived is that what I thought I knew I in fact did not, and this included English too. It truly felt like I was becoming much more objective, or let's say less subjective, for the first time.
    06.01.12
  • Comics as Literature, Part 1: The Usual Suspects
    Okay, I've had my rants (here and here) about comics being serious literature but those were really more about being pedantic than the actual appreciation of comics. So I started compiling my lists and thinking about which titles I'd want to include in a list of "serious comics." And here's the best part: there's a lot of them.
    06.01.12
  • Star Wars: A Belated Appreciation on Its 35th Birthday
    o I'm a little late to the 35th anniversary of Star Wars party. Yes, George Lucas's groundbreaking film was originally released on May 25, 1977, so I missed the big celebration by a few days. But heck, it's Star Wars week as far as I'm concerned. So if you'll indulge me, I'd like to impart a few thoughts about the awesomeness of George Lucas's astounding achievement.
    05.31.12
  • Inventor Mitch Altman, Electronics Jedi
    Long, flowing hair and an air of supreme confidence emanates from Mitch Altman, inventor of TV-B-Gone, as he enters the 'Dark Side' stage at the 2012 Orlando Mini Maker Faire on Saturday, May 27 2012. You can hear the Star Wars theme trumpeting in the background as R2D2 blinks and beeps--Mitch takes the stage.
    05.31.12
  • Law and the Multiverse
    Comic geeks love to argue and pick away at the details surrounding their favorite characters. James Daily and and Ryan Davidson are two practicing attorneys that publish the Law and the Multiverse blog, which takes the superhero world and holds it up against the real world law.
    05.31.12
  • King of RPGs Is Fun and Manic Foray Into Gaming Culture
    I'm a big fan of escapist memoirs. I love reading about what drives us into these realms of illusion and especially with how they help us deal with the real world, as Ethan Gilsdorf's excellent Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks did so eloquently. I was surprised, then, when I discovered the King of RPGs manga series, written by Jason Thompson and illustrated by Victor Hao. It's by no means a memoir -- more of a dark comedic fantasy -- but it is clear that the authors are intimately familiar with the roleplaying game culture depicted in the book.
    05.31.12
  • Report From Internet Prom 2012
    Last Saturday was the second annual Internet Prom. Most of my family attended, but the whole concept is still a mystery to people. Come let me show you exactly what this fun online event is about.
    05.30.12
  • Economist Paul Krugman Is a Hard-Core Science Fiction Fan
    If you follow the news at all, you¿ve probably seen Paul Krugman -- Princeton professor, New York Times columnist, and Nobel Prize-winning economist -- championing the idea that government spending can lift us out of the economic crisis. What you may not know is that Krugman is also a huge science fiction fan. In Episode 61 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, Krugman analyzes the cashless future of Star Trek, talks about his economics paper ¿The Theory of Interstellar Trade,¿ and evaluates whether or not it makes good business sense to invest in a Death Star.
    05.30.12
  • Dos and Don'ts of Air Travel: Toddler Edition (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
    Having recently returned from a trip across the country, I've encountered lots of tantruming children and desperate parents. Though this time I went solo, I thought I would share some suggestions for making travel less torture, especially with toddlers. While it's impossible to predict any one trip, here are some dos and don'ts for your next family adventure.
    05.30.12
  • GeekDad HipTrax #89
    This week's theme is musical adventure, and we include a record four tracks from three amazingly geeky artists!
    05.30.12
  • Digital Sculptures Inspired by Atari's Pitfall
    As a kid, Shawn Smith spent hours playing the Atari game Pitfall, where players tromp though a forested gauntlet of rolling logs, quicksand, rattlesnakes and fire. "I'd never been camping, so I thought that's what it was: wrestling crocodiles living in pixelated lakes, jumping over scorpions," Smith says. "The whole idea was to avoid nature and win some gold coins."
    05.29.12
  • The 'Internet Underground Music Archive' Rides Again
    Thanks to the efforts of digital preservationists, one of the original sources of the online music revolution is back on the web. Yes, the Internet Underground Music Archive has been resurrected, complete with well over half a million song files.
    05.29.12
  • Poor Ensign Jones: John Scalzi on Redshirts
    A starship captain, a commanding officer and an ensign walk into a bar on an away mission. Guess which one dies? Author John Scalzi has been having some fun with one of science fiction's longstanding traditions, and the result is his new novel Redshirts, which will be released June 5. While Redshirts draws from many inspirations, one naturally stands out from the rest.
    05.28.12
  • Review: Men in Black 3 Will Erase All Meaning in Your Life
    Will Smith has starred in lots of formulaic movies. And he knows better than anyone that there's something comforting as well as exhilarating about a movie that plays out according to a set of steps. Which is what makes Men in Black 3 so weird: It's a movie where the blockbuster formula is the opposite of comforting.
    05.25.12


 

 

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