So way back 6 months or-so ago I answered a question on Stack Overflow regarding the best films about Geeks/Hackers/Programmers. My answer was a bit obscure and outlandish, so it was never upvoted, but I felt it worth a mention here, along with some other awesome coding movies.
So, without further ado, three awesome films about Programmers/Hackers/Geeks
Evilspeak.
Clint Howard is a nerd at a military academy. He’s picked on by bullies morning, noon, and night…that is, until he contacts Satan on his IBM Compatible 286!!!! Bloody revenge in the monochrome era. Highly …

While my father was out this weekend, he requested I assemble lists of my top-three films in various categories, so he could check them out. I’d been thinking of putting together themed film pairings for a while, so this suggestion seemed like a great idea. Thus, I introduce Dreamlogic.net’s Triple-Play. Being that we love more films than most (possibly due to a high tolerance for cult camp), standard categories just aren’t going to work. So, each article will feature a trio of targeted genre fare, guaranteed to satisfy your …

My short and sweet review: I loved it. I’ll be seeing it again, and waiting in line to buy the dvd. Salvation takes the series in a new direction, while keeping mythology established until now completely intact (No small feat to say the least). Action is great, acting is great, story was awesome. There were a few sections that felt a bit rushed here and there, but overall I had a complete blast. Don’t believe the critics. Go and see it for yourself. Terminator Salvation is my favorite film …

Whoo boy, this looks fun. Something along the lines of the supernatural Sherlock Holmes games (ie: Call of Cthulu), Spielberg’s Young Sherlock, and Billy Wilder’s Private Life of Sherlock Homes, but with a Guy Ritchie twist. Check out the trailer below.

According to i09, Sarah Connor Chronicles has been officially axed, while Dollhouse is getting a new creative direction, a lower budget, and is still damned to Friday nights.
Now, Sarah Connor’s fate I’m only a little surprised about. It was a decent show, but prone to Lost-style filler. I’d stopped watching somewhere in the first handful of episodes of the second season, and never even knew about its switch to Friday nights until the season was almost finished. Still, with the release of the new Terminator movie (this weekend, in fact), …

Craig Merry’s back with another guest review! I haven’t had the time or interest to see the new Star Trek picture, but he just might have swayed me. Read on for his review.
Not too long ago I was sitting in “Watchmen” and saw the trailer for Star Trek. My brother was in awe and gave that elbow rub in the rib cage. He wanted to see it. Me, not so much. The first and last episode I watched was when I was 10, and it bored me to tears. For …

Also special appearances by a Hobbit, a hip-hopper, and Van Wilder, as Dominic Monaghan, Will.i.Am, and Ryan Reynolds play Bolt, John Wraith, and Deadpool respectively.

The second victim of reboot weirdness if the Zork series, with the new browser based mmorpg outing, Legends of Zork. As with the Larry games, I was a fan of the original Zork games (up to Return to Zork), and spent countless hours exploring the Great Undergound Empire. If you haven’t played a Zork game, be sure to check out the wiki page, as well as original in your browser at ThcNet’s error page.
The multi-player browser game reinvention seemed promising at first. The basic description seemed to evoke Urban …

This being April Fool’s Day, I know nothing I post today is really going to be taken seriously, but honest to god, Cat Shit One is real. It’s a new cg-anime production that sees cute little bunny rabbits engaging in covert operations in the middle east. Don’t believe me? Have a look at the Youtube video below. Also, check out the official site. [via]

And I thought I’d seen everything…
Bonus non-violent talking cats for you

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Koji Yakusho, Kumiko Aso, Sho Aikawa, Shun Sugata, Ren Osuji
Genre: Drama

HE SAID:
License to Live is the tale of a young man trying to discover his place in the world after being lost to a coma for 10 years. Only fourteen when he lost consciousness, Yutaka (Hidetoshi Nishijima) emerges mentally the same as the day he left, a boy in a man’s body. Now a stranger in his own hometown, he finds the world around him has moved on. Everyone from close friends to family has …

This weekend at the SFIAAF Kris and I attended some of the Kiyoshi Kurosawa Retrospective, and had about the best time ever. We saw three rarely screened Kiyoshi Kurosawa films (Eyes of a Spider, Serpent’s Path, and License to Live, all to be reviewed shortly), and actually got to meet Kurosawa in person! We had a brief and informal interview of sorts, and he was kind enough to sign our import copy of Loft (to be reviewed shortly as well), but I’ll forgo listing the actual details for now. Suffice …

Director: Daisuke Goto
Starring: Ryoko Asagi, Horyu Nakamura
Genre: Drama
Ah, the pink film. The only genre where a melancholic exploration of loneliness and love in the face of dementia can be made into an erotic tale of illicit love, role playing, and tit-milking. Yep. I said tit-milking.
A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn (aka: Chikan gifu: Musuko no yome to…) tells the tale of Noriko (Ryoko Asagi), a young widow tasked with caring for her elderly father-in-law, Shukichi (Horyu Nakamura), on a small dairy farm in rural Japan. Slowly losing his sanity to …

New Jim Jarmusch! Time to celebrate! Isaach De Bankole, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, and a revenge plotline? I can’t wait. I’m feeling a bit tired tonight, so here’s the plot description from Quicktime.com:
The new movie from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (”Broken Flowers,” “Down by Law”) is set in the striking and varied landscapes of contemporary Spain (both urban and otherwise). The location shoot there united the writer/director with acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (”In the Mood for Love,” “Paranoid Park”). Isaach De Bankole stars in the lead role for Mr. Jarmusch; this …

Director: Kazuo Mori
Starring: Raizo Ichikawa, Eijiro Tono, Ayako Wakao
Genre: Action
My review queue has grown quite large over the past few months, but when I received Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection (aka: Shin Shinbi no Mono) in the mail, I bumped it straight to the top. You see, I love the Shinobi no Mono movies, and couldn’t wait to find out what happened to Goemon after the amazing cliffhanger ending of the second film. Now, if you haven’t seen the first two films, stop right here.  Go pick up …

We’ve seen a number of films this year, but I just haven’t had the time to write anything about them yet. So, in an effort to get some of these out the door, here are a few ultra-short reviews. And, speaking of ultra short, I’ve got myself a twitter account now. Follow me, and I’ll follow you back.
I’ll be back later in the week with a review of Shinobi no Mono 3. The rest of the month will hopefully see a return to Japanese film reviews as well. Enjoy.
Underworld: Rise …

Episodes: 1-24, plus Burst Angel Infinity
Genre: Anime, Action
Burst Angel is a show that has little right to be as decent as it is. The series’s entire appeal seems to hinge on the most terribly cliched anime stereotype imaginable: big-eyed, scantily clad, massive-mammaried girls, wielding big guns, and fighting cyborg menaces in giant robots. It’s everything that makes anime hard to legitimize to the non-viewing public. Even the back of the dvd case emphasizes its eye candy content over its actual story. So why, oh why would any self respecting …

Episodes: 6-10
Genre: Anime, Action
Last volume I stated that I was very impressed with Claymore, but I wanted to wait until I saw a bit more of the series before I declared an actual verdict on the series. Having now finished volume 2, I’ve seen enough to do so. Simply put, Claymore is the best fantasy anime since the original Record of Lodoss War. I’m completely serious. It’s got amazing artistry, a truly engaging story, style, substance, emotional gravity… It’s just plain awesome. Everything I mentioned in my previous …

Director: Takashi Okazaki
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu
Genre: Action
Given the number of articles previously published at this site, the recent release of the Afro Samurai video game (complete with giant, billboard advertisements), and the fact that this is a sequel, I think I can forego the usual introductory paragraph. Suffice it to say, Afro Samurai’s back and looking better than ever.
The last go round with Afro saw him climbing the headband ladder to avenge the death of his father. Resurrection picks up a few years later, with Afro still …