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Danica Patrick video interview about Blur

I had a chance to sit down with Indycar and NASCAR racecar driver Danica Patrick. It wasn’t to talk about the Indianapolis 500 or her transition to NASCAR or even those provocative GoDaddy.com Super Bowl commercials.

If you know anything about me at this point, you know it had to be about a video game. The video game in question, in which the very lovely Danica stars as the final boss, is called Blur.

Blur is a graphically beautiful game that has the real-time damage features of games like Need for Speed combined with the multiplayer and weapon caused chaos of Mario Kart.

Lost – The End

Odds are people will be torn by Lost’s series finale.  People likely went into the episode with expectations on how Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse would bring this landmark show to a close and they clearly were not worried about irritating anybody with their ending.  For them, this finale was emotional and spiritual; the ending went beyond plot points, beyond smoke monsters and caves filled with an eerie golden light, beyond the Dharma Initiative and the Others.  The finale was an opportunity to remind everybody what made “Lost” so great in the first place: the characters.  A show is only as good as the acting and the writing, and “The End” brought us a beautiful amalgamation of these two elements.  We were given powerful scenes lined with emotion, some great action sequences, incredible special effects that dwarf much of what’s on television right now and an ending that should leave people talking for months.  Regardless of what you may think of the finale, Lindelof and Cuse got it right, even if it’s not exactly what we expected it to be.

The Road Review

The challenges awaiting Joe Penhall and John Hillcoat in adapting and directing (respectively) Cormac McCarthy’s The Road were numerous. This post-apocalyptic father-and-son story about whether struggling to survive as long as possible is worth the pain is a bleak tale and one that grinds along much of the time. It doesn’t have more than a handful of eventful or visually stimulating scenes. They manage, however, to not only be faithful to McCarthy’s elegy, but also add great details to make The Road,now on DVD and Blu-ray, into a solid film.

The Good Guys – Pilot

I’m a sucker for a good buddy-cop story. I love the camaraderie, the back and forth jokes, the way the relationship begins on shaky terms and quickly evolves into one where the two friends trust each other with their lives. In order for a buddy-cop story to be efficient, it needs two lead characters that have excellent chemistry and can appear to the audience as if they truly are as close as the script wants them to be. Fortunately, “The Good Guys” has two excellent actors who will likely grow into their roles as time goes on. While the characters that Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford are playing right now aren’t entirely fleshed out, there’s just enough back story in the pilot episode of Matt Nix’s new action show to help us believe these characters will be likable and realistic in the foreseeable future.  In fact, the entire show feels this way: a bit cliché and bland at times, but filled with enough promise to keep an audience willing to wait for the show to grow into itself.

Bagged And Boarded – Return of Bruce Wayne

Welcome to “Bagged and Boarded”, a series of articles by Kevin Beckham and Dustin Cabeal. In “Bagged and Boarded” two comic fans express their thoughts/opinions about an issue or comic event.

This week we discuss DC Comic’s Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne 1 of 6.

The most anticipated series of 2010 is here! Superstar writer Grant Morrison tackles his most ambitious project to date with THE RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE, a special six-part series that chronicles the return of the original man behind Batman’s cape and cowl! Each issue spans a different era of time and features the dynamic artwork of one of today’s artistic juggernauts, starting with Chris Sprouse (TOM STRONG) on the extra-sized issue #1 – DCcomics.com

V – Red Sky (Season Finale)

The season is complete and V has well and truly invaded our TV sets, unmercifully culling Flashforward while solidifying its own position with consistently good ratings. Is it a shining example of Sci-Fi drama? Or does a look beneath the surface reveal something not so pretty?

ABC 2010 Fall Season Lineup

Like NBC, ABC seems to have made a major revamping of its lineup.  Gone are freshman shows FlashForward, The Deep End, the forgotten, Eastwick, the short lived Happy Town, and Romantically Challenged with Alyssa Milano all replaced with seven new shows.  Also discontinued is sophomore comedy Better Off Ted as well as long time favorites Scrubs and Ugly Betty.  There are three mid-season replacements and V which was not canceled but seems to be missing from the schedule, but ABC President Steve McPherson made the decision to keep V over Flashforward.  Still it’s strange that it does not appear in the fall schedule and must be meant as a mid-season or spring intro.

Trailer Tracker: Easy A, Charlie St. Cloud, Secretariat

Welcome to “Trailer Tracker” where we at Player Affinity unfoundedly dissect the latest trailers to hit the web. In another uneventful week for clips we’ll take a gander at rising star Emma Stone’s first lead project with Easy A, weep just a bit with the heart-tugger Charlie St. Cloud starring Zac Efron, gallop on with the famous horse Secretariat  and finish off with the Grindhouse-esque, ultra low budget and aptly named revenge flick Vengeance with Danny Trejo.

108 Things I’ll Miss About Lost

108 things I’ll miss/ things I loved/ remaining thoughts about Lost:

1. Maybe this will be repeated, one way or another in this list, it was nice to have a show that made the audience look for more. It was a difficult show all the way.
2. Hurley. Jorge Garcia has that kind of best friend look to him that is truly endearing.
3. Having a show that pulled off time travel in multiple ways, multiple times.
4. Ben Linus. I just remember when he first came on and thinking, “Jesus, that guy is slimy.” I wanted him dead. As always:
5. That this show rarely gave viewers what they wanted, and we were better for it.
6. The actors. Not to sound shallow, but so many of them were really good looking. Evangeline Lily and  Emilie de Ravin for the guys, Josh Holloway for the ladies…  
7. Mr. Eko. Yeah, he’s been gone for 3 seasons, but off all the ones who didn’t make it, I think I miss him the most.
8. Having my head hurt when thinking about the show. That’s a good thing.
9. Daniel Faraday. I have always loved Jeremy Davies; loved having a physicist interested in time travel as a character on a major network show.
10. Speaking of Faraday, one of my favorite episodes: “The Constant.” One of those, “My god what a great effin episode!” that Lost was capable of delivering 3 times a season.

Daybreakers Review

Riding the most recent wave of monster-dom, Daybreakers hits DVD shelves and is yet another entry in the endless parade of vampire films to hit the market since the arrival of a little film called Twilight (which I hear is somewhat popular). Breaking with recent trends however, Daybreakers is by far the best of the bunch; high concept and high reward.