At a Glance: Wreck-It Ralph Cast: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk Director: Rich Moore 101 mins PG Media Mediated rates: 4/5 The 1980s were the Decade of the Arcade. Propelled by the success of such classics as Pac-Man, Galaga, and the original Super Mario Bros., the video arcade became […]
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Media Mediated Micro-Review: The Muppets
Over Thanksgiving weekend I saw The Muppets with my family. I did not stop smiling through the film; Kermit and crew are as ridiculously charming as ever. The plot is simple: while touring the run-down Muppet Studios with his brother Gary (Jason Segal) and Gary’s girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams), an enthusiastic muppet fan named Walter […]
Media Mediated: Friday Five on Monday Again
Welcome to the second installment of the Friday Five. Begun by Brian Russell, the Friday Five are the top five webcomic strips from the past week–only when we at Sketch Comedy do a Friday Five, we do it on other days of the week because we are contumacious and recalcitrant. Also we like to use […]
Media Mediated: Monday’s Friday Five
Brian Russell has started a cool thing: The Friday Five! Every Friday, he posts links to his favorite five webcomic posts that he’s read that past week. It’s like Wes Molebash’s Friday Faves but for webcomics! We at Sketch Comedy think this is such a great practice that we are going to adopt it ourselves. […]
Captain America: Jackson’s Thoughts
Captain America is the best superhero movie I have seen this summer. I’m not planning to do a formal review here. Those things take like three hours to do and end up sounding like a college essay, not that that’s a bad thing. But I thoroughly enjoyed the flick and thought it got a number […]
X-Men: First Class
At a Glance: X-Men: First Class Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones Director: Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Stardust) 132 mins PG-13 Media Mediated rates: 3/5 Since their introduction in the early 1960s, the X-Men have become one of Marvel Comics’ most iconic and popular franchises, and central to the franchise are […]
Media Mediated: Thor
At a Glance: Thor Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins Director: Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet, Henry V, Frankenstein) 114 mins PG-13 Media Mediated rates: 3/5 Marvel Comics’ Thor has always been about the collision of the old world with the new. First appearing in Marvel’s Journey into Mystery #83 (Aug. 1962), Thor and […]
Minecraft Monday
Good morning, everyone. You may recall my first post about Minecraft, in which I gave an introduction to Minecraft and briefly shared my gaming experience. Well, since then the game has gone into beta, seeing a slight price increase and a handful of new features and bug fixes, and I continue to play lots of […]
Media Mediated: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
At a Glance: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Cast: Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Will Poulter, Ben Barnes, voices of Simon Pegg and Liam Neeson Director: Michael Apted (Amazing Grace, The World is Not Enough) 115 mins PG Media Mediated rates: 3/5 C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia are, at their heart, […]
Media Mediated: Minecraft
I’ve been meaning to post another “Media Mediated” entry and criticize some of your favorite music, or maybe explain why you need to be reading MS Paint Adventures, but unfortunately my brain has been colonized by Minecraft. Minecraft is a computer game, currently in public alpha, where you collect stuff and build stuff during the […]