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Frenemy of the State #1 – Review

What if Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan worked for the C.I.A.? That is basically what Frenemy of the State is about, but don’t be so quick to write it off. The idea is simple and brilliant. How Hollywood or some other entertainment faucet has come up with the idea just proves its brilliance.

Ariana Von Holmberg is the daughter of Actress Katherine Walsh and Count Stefan Von Holmberg. She’s American royalty and famous for being famous. She’s also incredibly smart and physically fit. She’s attending an unbirthday party for one of her friends or frenemy, with ulterior motives. She needs to break into the hosts safe and steel a flash drive for the C.I.A. Ariana didn’t always work for the government. Once she was just like the other celebs drinking, partying, not wearing underwear. Then her boyfriend cheated on her. The catch is that boyfriend’s dad is a Senator and she broke into his home to catch the cheater.

Lost – Across the Sea

I’m always willing to give a show the benefit of the doubt.  I’ve been doing this for six years with Lost, even through the rough patches I assumed that the writers would provide us loyal fans with a somewhat clear direction in which the show was going to move.  Lost has never been a show that’s been easy to predict, but it’s nice to know that there is a purpose to everything we’re watching.  I’ve felt comfortable with everything Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have done with the show: the alternate universe, the smoke monster inhabiting Locke’s body, and any other ridiculous things that have pushed the show to the brink of science fiction.  When it’s done right, it’s entertaining, albeit a bit confusing.  However, last night’s episode of Lost, “Across The Sea,” took a story that should have been interesting to the nth degree and misused its many opportunities to answer some questions and give us an hour’s worth of great back-story on a couple of Lost’s most confusing characters.  I was still glued to the screen, but I could feel my attention span slipping a little, something that rarely happens on Lost.

Trailer Tracker: Super 8, Inception, The Adjustment Bureau and I Spit on Your Grave

Welcome back to the newly named “Trailer Tracker” where we at Player Affinity inspect the newest trailers with ruthless efficiency. In this relatively clip-light week we’ll take a look at J.J. Abrams’ secret project

Brightest Day #1

In the zero issue for Brightest Day, Deadman a.k.a. Aliveman, traveled from one resurrected super person to the next. The entire issue was very reminiscent of another DC series… 52. The pacing, the structure and the voice of the series are nearly the same.

This issue continues where Green Lantern #53 left off, with Sinestro bringing Hal to the white lantern. The lantern came falling back to Earth after Blackest Night and now sits in a crater in the middle of a small town. Hal attempts to move the lantern, but is unable to. The white lantern is the now the sword in the stone and the group must find its Arthur. The story then cuts to Deadman, who is still traveling invisibly from one resurrected hero to the next. He was invisible in death and now wonders why he’s invisible in life as well.

Alan Wake Review

A lot of times nowadays, plot is an afterthought when it comes to making games. It’s more about lots of explosions, big guns, and an endless swarm of enemies to mow down. What would happen though if you had a writer as your main character and were forced to focus on the plot? You would probably have something along the lines of Remedy Entertainment’s newest Xbox 360 exclusive, Alan Wake.

Alan Wake follows the title character through his mundane life as he struggles with a horrible case of writers block. It’s been two years since Alan has written anything of note and he is plagued by insomnia and nightmares. Finally, at the behest of his wife Alice, Alan decides to take a vacation with her to the quiet and tranquil town of Bright Falls in Washington.

Alan immediately feels out of place as a city boy in this rural backwater town. Everyone from the local radio DJ to the waitress at the main street diner begin to swoon over the great Alan Wake’s presence as he realizes this is probably the closest thing most of these people ever get to touching Hollywood. Alan rushes to find the local grease monkey who seems to be in charge of his cabin’s key, but comes across a haunting old woman instead who says the mechanic is indisposed at the moment, but left the key for him with her.

LittleBigPlanet 2 First Trailer

Hey! It’s a LittleBigPlanet 2 trailer! And! It’s looking very, very good. Exclamation points! I had hard time wondering just what Media Molecule could do to expand the toolset. After watching the trailer, I know why I don’t make games. These addition seem really obvious, but only after they’re shown.

The blurring line between TV and cinema

Since its creation, television has been battling with cinema to provide us with our information and entertainment. When television was available on a larger scale, cinema audiences started to decrease, unable to provide entertainment and news in people‘s homes. Yet cinema always had the edge with larger budgets and more prestige for people in the entertainment business. Many movie actors and directors started their careers in television, such as Ridley Scott and Clint Eastwood.

Pirate Website Htmlcomics.com Says Goodbye

Pirate website Htmlcomics.com closes it’s door with a little help from it’s friends…all of them.The site was hosting thousands of illegally scanned comics for from every major distributor.I know there’s a lot of questions regarding the sudden shutting downing of the site. Like when will it be back and where will I get my books from now? Just leave your name, address and IP in the comments and I’ll make sure the FBI gets back to you ASAP with an answer.

V – Hearts and Minds

After a superb start, which consisted of charred corpses and moral conflict, this episode slides quickly into mediocrity and eventually disaster. The lowest point in the series, Hearts and Minds, acts as a lesson in audience alienation (pun not withstanding), containing glaring plot holes, illogical character behaviour, and lazy direction.

The episode begins frantically with Hobbes aiming a ground-to-air missile at a V shuttle. After the inevitable explosion and destruction of the aircraft, Ryan, Father Jack, and Hobbes scurry to explore the result of their most outlandish strike against the V’s. To their horror, amongst the wreckage, lies not the husks of dead lizard people, but the burnt remains of Human passengers. At this point, the title sequence commences and I rub my hands together like a trench coat wearing, curb crawler.

May Movie Preview

The merry month of May has finally arrived. The most anticipated of movie months, May brings promise of an awesome summer at the movies, arriving right at the peak of our bland spring movie angst. So what better month to start our monthly movie previews (okay, so our site hasn’t been up long enough to start at any previous month) than May. As usual, in the lead-off spot is a superhero movie, this one being the much-anticipated follow up to 2008’s Iron Man. Also familiar to May is everyone’s favorite ogre Shrek, providing the month’s lone family-geared entertainment.