The missus and I recently went to the theater and watched Pan's Labyrinth , the new film by Guillermo del Toro. I can't usually get her to watch foreign films that are not dubbed, but she was really interested in the trailer, and we both loved the movie. It's a dark fable about a little girl who discovers a window to a world of magic and fey creatures in the midst of the chaos surrounding Franco's rise to power in 1940's Spain. The effects are impressive, and the story is compelling. After v...

I have to confess that I'm still waiting for a game-to-movie conversion that blows me away. Mediocrity is more or less the pinnacle of achievement that can be claimed by this particular subgenre. I borrowed the film version of Silent Hill yesterday from our local library, and while it wasn't as bad as Doom or House of the Dead , neither was it as good as Resident Evil: Apocalypse . I suppose I should point out that with the notable exception of Doom , I haven't played any of the ...