Recent content by TheSchaef

"Hey, you know, Brandon Routh volunteered to reprise his role for Man of Steel, and the oddball story left him oddly underappreciated for how he portrayed the Clark Kent half of Superman, at the least." "Nah, we wanna make a clean break from the older movies and go in a different direction...

I'll keep you advised. The son got a Generigo Nondescript Fire Truck for Christmas (hence, my example) and he's big on Legos and not terribly picky about brand. So I'm sure our house will have a mix of bricks in order to let my kids build whatever double-decker couch they like.

Saw this tonight with my two oldest boys (6 and nearly-5), and what a tremendous selection for their first experience in a theater. I have a bit of a bias towards this, for the same reason I consider Muppet material more immune to criticism than most: Lego has been around long enough to be a...

We decided that, since the contents are the same, the company would offer the software at the same price, be it the packaged version or the digital version." Except the retail price includes physical distribution costs, and the reseller's piece of the pie. Selling direct cuts out all those...

I agree with Kumagawa. Whether or not the Marvel villains themselves are particularly noteworthy, the people they have cast in the villanous roles have all been top-notch. They just need to throw in Benedict Cumberbatch, Gary Oldman, and Liam Neeson and they can pretty much print their own...

Wind Waker music can be as repetitive as it freaking wants, and I will come back and say: more, please. The Great Sea theme has got to be my favorite Zelda theme since the original NES adventure. The only thing that could make my existence one iota less bleak is if Smooth McGroove did an...

So a PG-13 Robocop with no trace of Frank Miller leaves me highly skeptical at best, especially in light of the Dredd and Total Recall reboots we recently saw. I am glad that the Futurama franchise will survive in some form, but the fact that it managed to get killed twice is a travesty. The...

This film was all right but we all know that without Peter Cullen anchoring the cast, it would have been half the movie it was. People like to bag on Orci and Kurtzman a lot, forgetting that what Jim says here about a serviceable story - if somewhat undermined by necessary origin story and...

One of my favorite sci-fi novels. Really hope this doesn't get Green Lantern'd.

Looks like the Depp-as-quirky-sidekick-who-steals-the-movie train is finally plunging off the exploding tracks into the deep gorge of I just ran out of ways to make that money shot from the trailer more analogous. Anyway, you want to take an old property and revive it with a fun...

Maybe so, but if Bob's list is accurate, this is exactly who the American Left (tm) believes is plotting to undermine essentially all of Western Democracy (tm), and an armed insurrection is exactly the type of dire prediction they present to an MSNBC host who nods gravely back at them as though...

Another Yahtzee bash-by-numbers of Nintendo. Color me surprised. The dearth of new releases post-launch is certainly not much fun, and it doesn't help that various Wii U exclusives are being delayed for the sole purpose of turning them into non-exclusives, but we picked one up on launch day...

The absence of Mark Hamill is nearly rectified by the continued presence of Kevin Conroy. Nearly.

Hooray for the "11th (read: 15th) time I died!"

It seems almost wrong to interrupt this shouting match over where Superman ranks on the power scale. IMO the only time Supes genuinely got taken down was by Batman in TDKR, but if you disagree go argue with someone else, cause I'm moving on... ... to say that, despite my excitement for the...