Havok Physics in the new Star Wars game

Video footage of a Lucasarts presentation of the technology they’re going to be using in the next Indiana Jones and Star Wars games. This includes the latest version of the Havok physics engine.
Besides the killer technology on show, this video is also interesting for the part where they blow up Jar Jar Binks [...]

Review: 300

So the IFF Surprise Film was 300. Not that much of a surprise. The queue was a bigger surprise - jesus, I’ve never seen anything like that. Even the premiere of the Lord of the Rings movies had shorter queues.
Anyway, 300 completely floored me. It’s a love song to graphic violence and romantic heroism, [...]

Review: The Fountain

Have you ever had a movie finish and end credits roll, with the entire audience sitting back in stunned silence? Maybe it’s just the type of film I tend to go see, but this has only happened to me a handful of times. The Fountain being one of them.
The Fountain is [...]

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival - Update

Back at the start of February, I was talking about the films I was looking forward to at the Dublin International Film Festival. Talking about the surprise film, I said
A tenner says that this will be Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain
Well, I was wrong. Sorta. Shortly before the festival began, I got [...]

10 Favourite C64 Games

The Great Escape

I think I got this with my Commodore 64. I seem to remember a Christmas Day where the rest of my family was off watching the Great Escape on TV and thinking to myself “Fuck you, last-generation losers. With this super-powerful computer, I AM Steve McQueen. I AM the Great Escape.” [...]

PlayStation 3 in Europe will play fewer old games - Yahoo! News

That high-pitched whine you’re hearing is Sony’s marketing machine spinning this - "We’re not working on backwards-compatibility because we’re working SO hard at making new stuff for PlayStation 3"

Fast Food Nation

For his dramatization of Eric Schlosser’s tell-all expose of the Fast Food industry, Richard Linklater chose to focus on just two points from the book.

The meat packing industry is ruthlessly exploitative.
There is shit in the meat.
Although they’re both very important points, they are stretched past breaking point across a two-hour movie. This means, [...]

Trailer for Resident Evil: Extinction

HD version available on Yahoo Movies.
Resident Evil: Mad Max, more like. Still though, it’s got Milla Jovovich and zombies - I’ve got my tickets booked already.

Happy Birthday Apple.com!

I’ve been pretty busy, so I missed this slightly, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still celebrate!
Monday was the 20th birthday of Apple.com. The domain was registered on the 19th of February 1987 and was the 64th registered dot-com address.
So happy birthday, guys!

Ruairi Robinson’s new short film online

Oscar-nominated local boy done good, Ruairi Robinson recently finished his new short film, The Silent City, and put it online in both HD quality and in shitty Youtube-quality. It’s an astonishing achievement considering the amount of quality he managed to eke out of his small budget, including appearances by Cillian Murphy (pictured) and [...]

Forget Barcamp, where’s Ireland’s SXSW?

BarCamp Dublin will be taking place in a couple of months and, despite the fact that it’s happening on my front door (I work in the Digital Depot), I probably won’t be attending. In short, this is mainly because I don’t think it has that much to offer to me. I have [...]

A gaggle of Youtube celebrities

For the new Barenaked Ladies video, the band asked a bunch of Youtube celebrities to record a video of themselves performing the song. The results are so very, very cute.

I’m familiar with most of these celebrities but I’ve never seen “Where the hell is Matt” before. So I hunted it down, and [...]

Pancake Tuesday!

Pancake Tuesday, boys and girls. A magical time of year. You can eat as much as you want, but because they’re only pancakes, you don’t look like such a savage. In school, we used to brag about how many we ate. Since I didn’t get any pancakes last year, I’m going [...]

Colours of the Matrix

Well, it was only a matter of time before I did something about the Matrix, wasn’t it? Quintessential nerd movie that has already been endlessly picked apart. Well, what’s one more?
Colour plays an important role in the Matrix movies. The tinting is as much a part of the mise-en-scene* as the [...]

Stew Station

Finally got around to checking out Stew Station, which opened up next to the Namaste Indian on North King Street, right around the corner from where I live. Like the sign on the door says, they specialise in stews and other soup-based dishes, and the menu seems to change regularly. The restaurant [...]

I’m moving to Rome

(x-posted to Livejournal because this is big)
So, after months of agonising over where H. would be posted for work, the big news finally arrived yesterday.
They’re sending her to Rome.
Well, me and H… I think we’ve got something special. Something I don’t want to give up, y’know? So I’m going with her. [...]