When I recapped last week’s season premiere of ‘True Blood’, I expressed some mild disappointment that the episode was very plot-heavy and lacked a lot of the atmosphere and character moments that make the show s...
August 8th of 1999 was a tragic day for me. That’s the day that the final ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ aired. I thought that the idea of riffing on movies was gone for good. But now it’s back and in fine ...
I’ve decided that I’m rooting for ‘The Good Guys’. The show isn’t quite there yet, but I really want to like it. I want it to be good goofy summer fun. It’s very close, really. The premise is fu...
Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and his bride, the Wolf Man, the Mummy and the Invisible Man… Just like Coke did for Santa, Universal set the standard for how these famous monsters look, behave, and even sound. Now the...
The weekend panned out like pretty much everyone (myself included) expected it to: ‘Toy Story 3’ made (deservedly) a whole bunch of money while ‘Jonah Hex’ made (deservedly) very little. But the story, and ...
It’s official. I’m digging ‘Persons Unknown’ on NBC. The first episode set up an intriguing mystery plot. The second episode, ‘The Edge’, has me hooked. Maybe this isn’t the next ‘Lo...
This week, we’d like to introduce a new recurring feature here at The Bonus View. For the Weekend Roundtable, all of our resident bloggers have been asked to weigh in with a few sentences on a given topic. Then we turn it ov...
Every industry has its buzz words. Last year, videogames were all “immersive,” even though that word got applied to so many places that weren’t even close to appropriate. This year, the word seems to be “ci...
If it seems like there’s really only one movie opening this weekend, there are in fact a couple of hidden gems and other things I haven’t gotten to talk about yet. But if you do only get to see one movie this weekend, ...
I love people with extreme amounts of time on their hands. I would never have the time, know-how, or inclination to check the flash coding on the Japanese ‘Marvel vs. Capcom 3’ web site for character names. Luckily, I ...
Most people who saw ‘Get Him to the Greek‘ came away with one thought (after: “This movie was supposed to have a plot, right?”). That thought was that Jonah Hill is a very funny man. And you wouldn’t ...
It’s easy to bag on Microsoft for Kinect – formerly “Project Natal.” It’s a popular whipping boy, and with plenty of good reason. It’s about as far from traditional gaming as you can get, itR...
