Archive for the 'Movies' Category

The New New Essay

I enjoy watching Zero Punctuation every Wednesday on The Escapist. For those of you who are not familiar with Benjamin "Yahtzee" Richard Croshaws work, Zero Punctuation is a weekly video review of video games that is typically five minutes long, spoken by Yahtzee very quickly (hence the title), and features simplistic but clever multimedia including [...]

Motorcycle Diaries

Viva la Revolucion Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries is the story of how a young, middle-class medical student, Ernesto Guevara de la Serno, became the revolutionary known as Che Guevara. In 1952, Ernesto (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his biochemist friend, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), took a six-month journey from Buenos Aires along the backbone [...]