Andy Wood

Are you American male with a healthy sexual drirve whom might be thinking about backpacking through Europe for nights of fun with eager and well-endowed women? If you have answered yes to two of the above questions, you might want to watch Eli Roth’s film “Hostel” before you voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

Controversial for its unnecessary, unjustified exploitation of gore, Mr. Roth’s film implicates the audience in its perversity. Never mind that you may like graphically violent films in general (I don’t; but good zombie flix, that is entirely different) or that you thought that this picture was going to be more frightening in the conventional sense than disgusting.

What you will get is a film about people paying to torture other people. The images that make you go “ewww” are more or less equally split between being on and off screen, as if to strengthen the association between audience-voyeurism and the cruelty inflicted upon the victims of very rich, sick men. If “Hostel” leaves you feeling anything but content, hopefully it is due to weak character development or overall narrative…and not because it wasn’t psychologically or viscerally disturbing enough.

Now I read that there is going to be a Hostel 2.

Bring on the bad guys! You wanted the worst, you got them: the most evil villains in the Marvel Universe have taken over Series 13 of the best-selling Marvel Legends series, bringing their own brand of menace and mania to your collection! This series includes: Pyro, Green Goblin, Loki, Blackheart, Abomination, and Lady Death Strike!

Also contained in Series 13 is the BAF (Build A Figure) – Onslaught, Each individual figure in the series is packaged with a part of Onslaught.

Marvel Legends Series 13: Pyro	Marvel Legends Series 13: Lady Death Strike
Marvel Legends Series 13: Loki	Marvel Legends Series 13: Green Goblin
Marvel Legends Series 13: BlackHeart	Marvel Legends Series 13: Abomination

Wow, this movie is getting the “hype”, but I am not going to fall for it. I will judge the movie when it comes out and I see ith with the rest of the world.

Check out what Comics2Film was sporting (reviews, interviews, etc) on thier site. Hey! Don’t get me wrong, I am looking forward to this movie and sequels as well. I really like it when writers can really get behind a subject matter and really tell a story on the screen.

• “I saw ‘Superman’ last night…”
• “Superman Returns” Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty Interview
• Review: ‘Superman Returns’
• Review: ‘Superman Returns’
• Review: ‘Superman Returns’
• Review: ‘Superman Returns’
• ‘Superman Returns’ Bryan Singer Interview
• Superman Returns Interview: Brandon Routh
• Superman Returns Interview: Kate Bosworth
• ‘Superman Returns’ Kevin Spacey Interview
• ‘Superman Returns’ on ET
• ‘Superman Returns’ Sam Huntington Interview

I have seen this out there on the Internet for a while now, but Fragland makes sense out of it.

According to some, the spring-update of the Xbox Live Dashboard now offers the possibility to clear the cache of your Xbox360:

“Go to the system blade and then memory. Press Y on either the HDD or a MU and then press X,X,Left Bumper, Right Bumper, X,X. Once you do this a blade will pop up saying: This will perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices. Do you want to continue? Pick yes or no.”

To those who wonder what it does or think they should test it out immediately, Microsoft warns them not to touch it unless something’s really wrong with it.

“The HDD cache clearing feature is a part of the Xbox 360 technical support process and is only supported in those instances. While the cache clearing operation will not harm or render your console inoperable, it should only be used when instructed by the Microsoft customer support staff. As always, any gamers experiencing issues with their console should contact 800-4-MYXBOX instead of attempting to troubleshoot on their own via this feature.”

So it’s not dangerous, but just don’t do it if you don’t have to!

In keeping with Blizzard’s aggressive stance against cheating in World of Warcraft, we banned over 30,000 accounts in the month of May, and with that removed well over 30 million gold from the economy across all realms. The banned accounts were taking part in activities that violate the game’s Terms of Use, including using third-party programs to farm gold and items, which severely impacts the economy of a realm and the overall game enjoyment for all players.

We will continue to aggressively monitor all World of Warcraft realms in order to protect the service and its players from the harmful effects of cheating. Please note that selling World of Warcraft content, such as gold, items, and characters, can result in a permanent ban of the involved accounts from World of Warcraft.

Many account closures come as the direct result of tips reported to our GMs in game or emailed to our Hacks Team by legitimate World of Warcraft players. If you suspect that a World of Warcraft player is using an illegal third-party program to farm gold or items, or is otherwise violating our Terms of Use, please report the suspected infraction via one of the means listed above. All reports will be investigated, and those that prove false will not result in corrective action.