Reviews

Yes, I'm aware it's 2009 now. But I still need to cover the games that I played in 2007, before I can move on to the 2008 edition.…

[Mirror's Edge](http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3160956), by DICE, published by Electronic Arts. I don't play a lot of games all the way to the finish. The current pile of unfinished games includes…

For some reason, I played quite a few computer games in 2007. Aftering buying a [Wii](http://www.nintendo.com.au/) in 2006, I got an [XBox360](http://www.xbox.com/en-au/) and [PS3](http://playstation.com.au/) to go along with…

[The Palace](http://www.itv.com/Drama/contemporary/ThePalace/default.html), a new series from ITV in the UK. The setup is pretty simple: *The West Wing* meets *The Queen*. That's a difficult premise to live up…

I just recently re-read an old favourite of mine, the *[Hyperion Cantos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos)* by Dan Simmons. The *Cantos* is a sequence of four books: * [Hyperion](http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHyperion-Dan-Simmons%2Fdp%2F0553283685%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1202698881%26sr%3D8-2&tag=exaspercalcul-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325) * [The Fall…

This weekend I went to see the new movie from JJ Abrams, [*Cloverfield*](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/). I went in with fairly low expectations - I enjoy monster movies, but don't really…

[*No Country For Old Men*](http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/). Directed by Ethan & Joel Coen. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. In West Texas, June 1980, a drug deal…

[*National Treasure: Book of Secrets*](http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0465234/). Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Starring Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren and Ed Harris. Treasure hunter Ben Gates (Cage)…

[*Hitman*](http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0465494/) Directed by Xavier Gans. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper and Ulrich Thomsen. A mysterious, powerful organisation (known only as "The Organisation") has created…