iPhone 5 Live Blog!

September 11, 2012 | Shaxster

It’s that time again. Apple are holding a major event on Wednesday, in which they are expected to announce the iPhone 5, along with a new iPod range, and possibly even an iPad Mini. Regardless of what they announce, you can read our live blog right here. Read More

Talkingship Review – NVidia 3D Vision

August 29, 2010 | Fisherman

At E3, Sony made the 3D capabilities of the Playstation 3 and its upcoming games a centerpiece of their presentation.  The promise of 3D is real, you can see it in movies with the spectacle that is Avatar, but most gamers haven’t really experienced it, not as Sony has touted it.  I have.  So I’m here to tell you whether the promise is real or the just a high-priced gimmick. Read More

DVD Review : I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

August 27, 2010 | Jitterbug 3

I’m not well known for decorum.  One glance at the titles of the majority of the Talkingship shows and you’ll realize that my sense of humor stalled somewhere between 13 and my first beer (I have no idea when that was, but for the purpose of this joke we’ll say it was at 13 and a day.)  This no doubt plays a part in my appreciation of Tucker Max’s book, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell.  The question is, does the same hold true for the movie version of his raunchy book?

The simple answer is: No.

I loved the book.  Once I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down.  His exploits were beyond reproach and bordered on the wrong side of legality more often then not.  His writing is entertaining, his adventures are damn near unbelievable, and his misogyny is somehow … well, charming.  When reading the book you will quickly realize that Tucker Max is a deplorable piece of shit, but you just can’t stop laughing.  However, as soon as I heard this was going to be a movie, I knew it was doomed.  There’s no way you can bring a character like Tucker Max to life on screen without being forced to really face the gross nature of what this man represents.  He is the worst of what males have to offer.

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Movie Review : Piranha 3D

August 22, 2010 | Jitterbug 5

As a busy father of two young girls, I have very little time to go to the theater to see movies that aren’t filled with talking animals or wizards named Harry.  Most of my movie watching happens at home, in my recliner, on the big screen HDTV.  I’m normally content with this, but every so often a film comes out that I feel the need to see with a hundred other people in an uncomfortable seat after having spent too much money on candy that I didn’t even really want, all while sipping a titanic sized soda that will inevitably make me have to pee before the movie’s over.  Yay for theaters.  On August 20th, a film swam into theaters that seemed worth one of these rare excursions: Piranha 3D!

This is a B-Movie in every sense of the phrase, and the saving grace is that it knows it. The plot can be fully explained in a single, short sentence: Earthquake releases Mesolithic Piranha into a spring break lake.  Boom – there you have it.  You need to know nothing else, and every other plot detail you discover will only serve to bore you.  You won’t care about the characters or their arcs.  In fact,  your interest in the characters of Piranha 3D will be limited to only a question of their life span, which is exactly as it should be.  One of the biggest problems with the movie is that it tries to convince you the characters DO matter by spending an inordinate amount of time with them, but we’ll get into that more later.

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