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Review by Kenny Farino : November 8, 2012
"Wreck-It Ralph" gets so much right when it comes to how it presented its story, the character arcs , and even how they handled their gratuitous cameos from already-existing video game characters. It was able to build its own self-contained world in a way where it really was something to behold, and the story was fresh and original. Truly, this is this generation's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 30, 2012
Silent Hill Revelation is a movie that you should absolutely avoid with prejudice. This movie flopped for a reason
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 6, 2012
The improved graphics are breathtaking to behold at times (at least for being on the DS), the story has 'matured' along with its audience by adding an element of morality into the mix, and the music keeps the adrenaline pumping as you fight your way through hoardes of trainers in your quest to become a Pokemon Master. With tons of other features that I barely even began to discuss, Pokemon Black and White is like a dream come true for Pokemon fans; it is a more 'evolved' experience.
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Review by Kenny Farino : September 13, 2012
Although Final Fantasy 2 is still widely considered the black sheep of its series, that makes it far from a bad game (it's great, in fact), and it is one of the most underrated games in RPG history.
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Review by Kenny Farino : August 8, 2012
This new article series, called iOS Rundown, is going to be all about iOS games, since a lot of them don't warrant full-blown reviews on their own (either due to very simple story and/or gameplay, or due to me not having enough to say about them in general). With that said, this installment is talking about the recently-released Manos: The Hands of Fate, and the nostalgic Don Bluth opus Dragon's Lair (as well as its sequel, Space Ace, and BrainDead 13, since they all have the same type of gameplay and flaws).
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Review by Kenny Farino : July 31, 2012
Join Kenny Farino as he delves into why Slender is so scary.
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Review by Kenny Farino : July 12, 2012
After seeing The Amazing Spider-Man, what did Kenny Farino think of it? Was it superior to the Sam Raimi Trilogy, or does it leave another dark smudge on Spidey's movie track record?
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Review by Kenny Farino : May 12, 2012
While Godzilla is mainly known as a movie series about monsters beating each other up, Gojira (1954) is a cautionary tale about the horrors of atomic weapons, and the suffering and destruction that they bring. This is a haunting movie, and this review will tell you why you should give it a watch.
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Review by Kenny Farino : April 14, 2012
Fallout: New Vegas has gained some major points in my book for not only being a really fun game, but having the in-depth story it does, having a load of quests to do, having the goofy and light-hearted feel that makes it an enjoyable romp, and by keeping to the mythology that the previous four games previously established.
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Review by Kenny Farino : February 25, 2012
After the whole thing was over, I played a little make-believe and pretended that I was the badass himself, roaring down the road at ludicrous speeds and chaining evil to death... that is until I was pulled over and arrested... again. Anyway, I think that acts as a good lead-in to what I thought of the movie, yeah? No? Well it was really fucking good!
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 31, 2011
Lets not mince words, the Simon Necronomicon is complete ass in my opinion, but my opinion is simply not enough in explaining how bad this stinker of a book really is. With that said, I'm going to do what college students do best and provide some citations from various sources to help illustrate my points.
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 13, 2011
Video game remix website OCRemix.org has been around for a very long time (since 2001), providing the internet with some great content that has infectiously hotglued itself to the brains of thousands of internet goers for years. They have been creating albums chock-full of only the best remixes for quite some time now, and about a week ago (the 6th of December), they released their 30th album: "BadAss: Boss Themes!"
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 31, 2011
The Thing (2011) is a very worthy successor to John Carpenter's The Thing. Is it as good as the 1982 classic? No, but it's pretty damn close! Fans of the original film should really give this a chance because the attention to detail, the tension, and the obvious love for Carpenter's classic makes this prequel outshine any other contrived, uninspired horror reboot by a mile! I highly recommend The Thing (2011), so get out there and scare yourself silly!
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 14, 2011
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison is a poorly made documentary that may fool those not versed in the Beatles career, but for fans it is a slap to the face.
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Review by Kenny Farino : August 17, 2011
The year is 1985. Orson Scott Card, a writer with a nack for dipping his pen into different genres, and who has already published numerous works like A Planet Called Treason (1978), "Sandmagic" (1979) and The Worthing Chronicle (1983), has completed and published what will become his magnum opus, Ender's Game. The story of a young boy thrust into deep space to save the human race from hostile aliens, Ender's Game made a huge splash in the world of science fiction.
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Review by Kenny Farino : July 20, 2011
Duke Nukem is back, and although critics everywhere else are taking a dump on this game, let us tell you why you need to give Duke Nukem a chance!
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Review by Kenny Farino : June 7, 2011
In his written review comeback, Kenny Farino tells you why the Duke Nukem Forever demo kicks ass!
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Review by Kenny Farino : January 5, 2011
Splatterhouse is a heavy metal gore-fest with H.P. Lovecraft elements and a B-movie vibe, so check it out!
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 17, 2010
If Kickassia deserves to be on the IMDB, then it deserves to be put under the microscope in the same fashion that the TGWTG crew do to the movies they review.
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 1, 2010
After the events of Season Two, Dexter Morgan is back to his old ways after his close call with being caught in his deadly past-time. While he works for the Miami Metro Homicide division by day, he murders serial killers and other dregs of society by night. When he is on the hunt for Freebo, a drug dealer who turned lethal, he accidentally kills the wrong man, the brother of a powerful Miami attorney, Miguel Prado. As his life takes an unexpected turn, Dexter makes friends with Prado, a sensation that he has never known before. But will he be able to hide his secrets from his new friend and continue his deadly past-time?
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 23, 2010
They added another staple to the series in Season Two that threw me off: a gratuitous amount of sex. Granted, that's not a bad thing for the fans in their teens, but it made Dexter, as a series, seem a bit... mainstream? Lots of other shows have steamy sex scenes, but how many have a lawman killing people in such an awesome way? Absolutely none, that's how many. One thing that I have felt about television shows or movies when they add sex scenes is that they are either reaching out to a hornier demographic, or the writers can't think of anything that can replace that scene so sex is used for the sole purpose of padding.
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 14, 2010
Dexter Morgan is a blood spatter analyst who works for Miami Metro Homicide by day, and who murders serial killers, rapists, and other scum of the earth by night. Instilled by the Code of Harry, he only focuses on going after the dregs of society. Dexter also lives a double-life, trying to appear like he is a normal member of society by retaining a girlfriend, Rita, and maintaining a job while also following the #1 rule of the Code: "Don't get caught." But Miami Metro makes a chilling discovery when they discover the chopped up body of a prostitute without any blood near the scene of the crime. Soon, a new serial killer emerges, the Ice Truck Killer, and Dexter is soon involved with a deadly game of cat and mouse that reveals more than he is prepared for.
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Review by Kenny Farino : September 26, 2010
A Town Called Panic is an overall entertaining little French film that, despite being slightly ADHD, is very cute, humorous, and perfect as a family film. Seriously, stop buying bullshit like Spongebob Squarepants or stuff found on Cartoon Network for your children and make them watch a genuinely good film that doesn't patronize them into a stupid coma. This is also good for adults because it has humor they will appreciate, so parents and children can both enjoy A Town Called Panic! It reminds me of older cartoons that used to air like Rocko's Modern Life because those also tried to be for grownups, slipping in subtle humor that would fly over the kiddie's heads so parents could still have a good time while letting their kids watch cartoons they could like.
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Review by Kenny Farino : June 24, 2010
Renegade Kid took extreme care to fix or improve many aspects that made Dementium: The Ward a good game. The same fluid touch screen-oriented controls are left intact, but they added a very easy-to-use jump and duck mechanic that has proven to make the game more expansive in its design and settings. They also added a wider variety of monsters and weapons, added an inventory that not only lets you easily access your weapons but also allows you to store pills for when you're in a pinch (as opposed to consuming health on the spot like in the last game), and SAVE POINTS.
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Review by Kenny Farino : June 2, 2010
While we don't have a deep, complex, Silent Hill-esque story, here's the gist:
You awaken to find yourself in a bed insane a dark, cold, bloody insane asylum, festering with monsters. Upon seeing a large monster drag a hapless woman down the hall, you decide to take pursuit. However, the deeper you go into the asylum to escape, the more horrifying things you encounter as you dig deeper into the truth behind your prison, the woman, and a mysterious young girl who eludes you at every turn.
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Review by Kenny Farino : April 25, 2010
Where does that leave Plastic Beach? In truth, my first impressions on the Plastic Beach album had me absolutely fucking hating it, but the feeling I have now shines of mild disappointment. When you review an entire album you need to listen to it more than once to let it try and grow on you. Only after repeated listenings did I see it appropriate to review Plastic Beach because it's a grower; the first time won't hook you, but it needs repeated listens. This review is going to be a track-by-track review so we can dig deeper into the Plastic Beach album itself, and find out what went wrong.
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Review by Kenny Farino : February 28, 2010
After the game's release two weeks ago from today, there has been a wave of outrage or butthurt (depending on who you are) flooding from every game review website, labeling it as a God of War clone. Fanboys of the Playstation 3 series agree, but fanboys don't have opinions, or can't utter them with Kratos's ballsack dangling in their throats. I played Dante's Inferno the whole way through before seeing this massive wave of pissed off fanboys or bribed reviewers (*cough* Gamespot), and I was flabbergasted. When I went from start to finish, I thought I played the holy grail of action games, and I didn't see anything wrong with it that was deserving of, according to 1Up.com, a C+, or, according to Sage of TGWTG.com, an unsatisfying experience that needs to be passed by. Despite the wave of negative reviews, I want to take this time to tell you guys why I think Dante's Inferno deserves better, and why you should check this game out. As well as why God of War fanboys and most mainstream game reviewers can all go suck on a large, stiff dick. Away we go!
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Review by Kenny Farino : January 17, 2010
Basically, since I'll face the ultimate death penalty if I give away anything too specific, let me try to give you the rundown of "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni" in the most general way possible. We follow a group of friends in the town of Hinamizawa, Keiichi, Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. The anime is split up into different story segments every couple of episodes, the events taking place focusing on a particular character to further an important element of storytelling called 'character development;' the different characters are fleshed out, and you get nice, rounded people that you can relate to in the general context of the series. You see, solid characters make a great story because they're half of the important elements in storytelling. In some instances, like the Joker in "The Dark Knight" characters are sometimes the primary causes for a story to roll along, so with so many diverse characters in "Higurashi...", we have so many opportunities to create some suspenseful, scary shit!
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Review by Kenny Farino : January 1, 2010
For one thing, the story doesn't come close to following anything about the Cthulhu Mythos in any sense of the word. There are no intergalactic creatures that threaten to destroy the very sanity of the human race as everything is plunged into eternal darkness, there is no mystery as to why somebody like, say, Eric Zahn, is left alone, only to later discover that there are monsters in his kitchen sink asking for his immortal soul, and there is nothing indescribable or unfathomable save for why I have the sudden urge to burn the nearest Japanese person. Instead, we have mecha wars in Arkham, led by Al Azif, or the Necronomicon, and a slew of other uninspired characters. This is the farthest away you can get from Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, and I am ashamed of saying this has anything to do with either of them in the first place. The closest "Demonbane" comes to the Mythos is, as I said, naming things after the Lovecraftian Universe.
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 28, 2009
Starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West and directed by Stuart Gordon ("Dreams In The Witch House" of Masters of Horror), "Re-Animator" is about a mad scientist who comes to Miskatonic University to continue his studies and experiments on bringing the dead back to life, thus the title. He soon drags his unwitting friend Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), a fellow student, into his experiments, and everything goes to hell in a hand basket faster than Obama's approval rating. What? What did I say? Anyway, the downsides of Dr. West's experiments that causes everything to go to hell in an instant is the fact that if the corpses aren't revived right after they have died, the risen are reduced to extremely violent zombies, which causes more and more chaos as the film goes on.
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 23, 2009
Avatar's story may be identical to "Dances with Wolves" or others, but the way this was told was in such a way that kept my attention; the story was simple enough to understand but didn't treat the audience like idiots, and the appeal actually reminded me of other James Cameron movies like "Terminator 2". This movie had a certain humor about it, but it also told its story in a fun and emotional way. For the first time in a while, I actually gave a crap about the characters who were presented to me, and the actors really helped give this movie a certain quality that one could hardly feel in most modern films like, to use as an example again, "2012". In "Avatar," you had a range of different personalities that added a charm to the movie, whereas in "2012," most or all of the characters are interchangeable with each other, and you could easily forget about any of them in an instant.
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 7, 2009
There is something very interesting to consider: while the SAW sequels have gotten gorier and gorier, while the story has become more and more convoluted, the first SAW movie actually had very little, if any, shown violence... wait, what? Yeah, SAW actually started off extremely tame in the way of gore. "But Kenny," you ask, this joke obviously stolen from Zero Punctuation ohgoddonthuntmedown, "how was the movie interesting without the GORE?" Well, SAW was actually very deeply rooted in a much older sub-genre of horror, suspense. The first SAW had much less gore, and much more suspense, and as a result I could actually watch this movie without covering my eyes! I watched the first film last night, and I thought it would be appropriate to review it, seeing as Halloween, and another sequel, draw closer.
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Review by Kenny Farino : November 15, 2009
In Born From A Wish, Maria finds herself alone in the Heaven's Night Bar. Left with nothing but a revolver, she wanders the streets of the town with the wish of finding a sign of human life. She eventually comes across the Baldwin Mansion, coming across Ernest, a man who has locked himself inside a room with the desire to be alone. In true Silent Hill style, Maria takes on the task of solving the puzzle to find out what's going on, and even find out more about herself.
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 12, 2009
So what is the premise? You are the Point Man, an operative of the F.E.A.R. faction. The F.E.A.R. team is a branch of the government that investigates paranormal activity, and is kept secret from everybody else. Like Team Jericho, but cooler. Anyway, shit hits the fan when a whacked-out operative named Paxton Ferrel takes control of a telepathic clone army (don't you dare think of The Clone Wars), and takes control of the Armacham Technology Corporation. It is your job to neutralize him before he is able to pull off any horrible deeds, and you are completely alone as you not only battle legions of these supersoldiers, but also encounter a creepy and incredibly powerful entity named Alma. How does Alma fit into the story? She sends the Point Man into what can only be described as Mindfuck City, easily making these portions some of the freakiest in the game.
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 5, 2009
Halloween 2 is beyond help, and I'm only going to sound like many other reviewers when I say that Rob Zombie has made the opposite of Citizen Kane. Halloween 2 is worse than Twilight, Repo! The Genetic Opera, and all other torture porns in existence. This was a waste of the $8 dollars I paid to see it, and t was a waste of an evening. I spent an entire week ranting about this to my friends, and it was for a very good reason.
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Review by Kenny Farino : September 30, 2009
It's a mess. Some people seem to love this, but you won't find me calling myself a fan. I was told this was a great movie by so many deviantART people, but then my college friends told me it sucked. I went into REPO! The Genetic Opera expecting to hate it, and I was pleasantly surprised... in which I was absolutely right in my expectations! With emotionally retarded characters, terrible music, and a story that's incredibly confusing, not to mention being very poorly made in the process, this big fat train crash.
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Review by Kenny Farino : September 13, 2009
The one thing I could find that was really a complaint so far was the beginning of the first issue after Jason gets loose. Nightmares, domestic life, and tons of things going on at once. For instance, I have no idea where this comes from, but somebody is watching "Army of Darkness" in the theaters. Suddenly, the Deadite General is replaced by Freddy. Then we never see it again. What the hell? Despite a shakily confusing beginning that requires a few reads, I can't really find anything else to complain about so far!
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Review by Kenny Farino : November 30, 1999
In 2005, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society decided to undertake the tasks of adapting one of the most unadaptable stories into a film, emulating the movie-style of the time that The Call of Cthulhu was written. This means that the HPLHS emulated the style of the silent film, using a technology called "Mythoscope" to create something that feels that it came straight out of the 1920's! This comes complete with custom title cards and its own symphonic score. They were hoping to create "the most authentic and faithful screen adaptation of a Lovecraft story yet attempted" (the back of the DVD). Did they succeed?
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