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I'm nearly 30 hours in. It's an absorbing, if unforgiving action RPG. Right now I'm taking a break from it to play Uncharted. --Jefferson Morris

I recommend everyone at least try the demo, which is a lot of fun. I'm playing the full game now. This, it seems to me, is the game Assassin's Creed should have been--a fun, mission-based, parkour, open-world action game. The electrically based superpowers are a lot of fun to wield, and...

My sister-in-law to-be is keen to mount her new 50-inch flat panel LCD on the wall above her fireplace in her basement. This fireplace is used only occasionally. Does anyone have this kind of setup, or have an opinion on whether heat could damage the unit? --Jefferson Morris

Now, I'm not a glutton for punishment when it comes to difficulty (I gave up on Ninja Gaiden Sigma after the 6th chapter--it felt too much like work), but it seems that a number of recent titles are, well, pretty darned easy on their "normal" difficulty setting. Fable II, for example, was a...

...I'm wondering, for those of you out there who have had to do this, does your save data get retained? Or do you just get another refurbished console, and none of your data? --Jefferson Morris

Bill Hunt reports the new Iron Man blu ray will have an Easter Egg (not sure how much of an Easter Egg it is if we're all told about it in advance, but whatever). That's the first I've heard of an Easter Egg on a high-def disc. By and large, are the studios abandoning Easter Eggs? I know some...

All, With C.H.U.D. vitriolically panning this film, I thought I'd offer a second opinion. Terry Gilliam himself introduced the D.C. premier of Tideland on Oct. 5, and did a Q&A afterward. I sat in the front row. Here's my (somewhat lengthy) review and report: Washington, D.C. is not the...

Greetings, all. I've been posting on HTF forever, but never in this forum, so forgive me if this newbie-ish question has been addressed ad nauseum already. I've got a 50-inch Hitachi LCD rear projection HDTV, fed mostly with standard DVDs upscaled to 720p by my trustly Momitsu player and...

Not quite as great as the legendary Shining Redux trailer, but it's pretty darned good. http://www.tomatopatch.com/films/sleepless2.htm --Jefferson Morris

Apparently the website for Gilliam's Tideland has a trailer up. www.tidelandthemovie.com It's somewhere on the "Access Map." I haven't seen it yet myself, as my work computer gets indigestion when it deals with flash-heavy sites like this. If anyone can unearth a direct link, please be a...

Not exactly sure which forum this belongs in, but this is simply great. It can take a while to load. http://waxy.org/random/video/shining_redux.mov A wonderful demonstration of the power of editing and music to transform the tone of something. --Jefferson Morris

Memoirs of a Geisha trailer: http://www.movies.co.jp/sayuri/trail...ailer_500k.asx Ziyi looking sensational (duh). I'm quite looking forward to this one, although I've never read the source novel. I elected to start a new thread for this, rather than resurrect any of the older threads...

All, What cinematic deaths have stayed with you? That is, which demises have been particularly memorable and/or disturbing for you? They can be gruesome (Peter Weller in Robocop), beautiful (Brando in The Godfather), or just plain odd (Kevin's parents in Time Bandits). Here's a couple...

Hello, all. Earlier this year some dear friends of mine did me the great honor of asking me to perform their wedding ceremony. I'm not an ordained minister (or even a believer in God), but this didn't dissuade them, and I graciously accepted. The wedding will be in New Orleans next March. I'm...

Anyone else like this show as much as I do? I feel the Season 3 opener, on the tender subject of circumcision, was one of the best they've done. Hopefully the hot-button topics covered on this show won't preclude some carefully moderated discussion of it. I think this is one of the few...

I'm a big fan of this film, but I already own the anamorphic widescreen bare bones DVD that was released in 2000. The special features on the 2002 disc (a couple of docus, Siskel and Ebert review, deleted scenes) don't sound too terribly "special," although I'd be interested in checking them...

Many of you have probably seen the cover art for the European release of the Once Upon A Time in the West special edition (posted on The Digital Bits earlier today): http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#onceeng I'm sure many will agree with Bill Hunt that it's a great, noggin-free cover. But for...

...but I was, while watching the AOTC teaser (assuming that was a CG Yoda, which I'm almost 100% sure it was). To my surprise/relief, it actually looked like the Yoda we know and love, as opposed to the inexplicably altered, utterly inexpressive imposter in The Phantom Menace. A Henson puppet...

I guess it's not too surprising that this title is finally making its way to DVD in the U.S., considering Peter Jackson's current profile, but it's still a nice thing to finally have confirmed, courtesy of The Digital Bits. Back in the laserdisc era, when the Criterion Collection seemed the...

A couple of reports from folks who saw a Blade Runner director's cut screening with Ridley Scott in attendance offer conflicting info over the Legend DVD release. One attendee says Scott indicated that the disc is due sometime this winter, but another attendee says Christmas 2002. I'm...