“What an incredible week for cinema it is if you’ve got a genuine interest in the representation of women in film. It’s the kind of week you could write an entire research paper on. First of all we’ve got Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which uses Michael Bay’s ever-so-male gaze to stare at Megan Fox with the same kind of lust with which it stares at the vehicles the Transformers turn into—an empty collection of moving parts that are probably good for a ride.”

“Weirdest news of the week? That Lars Von Trier’s much-talked-about-at-Cannes horror film Antichrist is receiving a video-game adaptation. How utterly bizarre.”

“Perhaps it’s not handsome, but there’s a weird sort of gratification when you read an article or review that agrees with something you’re already thinking. Such as Jason Anderson’s review in Eye of Away We Go, where he notes that ‘Even the least discerning and most pliant indie hipsters may have cringed at the poster for Away We Go. That cutesy, post-Juno graphic-design cocktail of photo, illustration and hand-drawn type was more than enough to indicate the movie’s target demographic even if star John Krasinski wasn’t pictured looking like a guy who sells merch at a Fleet Foxes show.’”

I haven’t really made an especially big deal of this, but I’ve recently begun blogging for Future Shop’s Tech Blog. Future Shop are a Canadian big box electronics retailer – similar to Best Buy, and in fact, the same company when you get to the corporate level – but their blog gives me (more or less) carte blanche to write what I see fit and I’m joined by some other fine writers, so it’s a rather pleasant job all in all.

As I went down to E3 this year I decided to exercise my writing muscles by trying to “liveblog” for the site, and while I wasn’t entirely successful in blogging “live” I think I wrote some of the most amusing and free flowing stuff I’ve written in a while – with some very unfiltered opinion. Stream of consciousness will do that for you.

E3: The Xbox Media Briefing – Not-Quite Liveblogged
E3: EA’s Press Conference – Liveblogged
E3: Ubisoft’s Press Conference – Not-Even-Vaguely Liveblogged
E3: Nintendo’s Media Briefing – Not Liveblogged Either
E3: Sony Press Event – The Last of the “Liveblogs”

“If there was something that kept our heart from leaping during Microsoft’s admittedly impressive (lifestyle video aside) onstage unveiling of Project Natal, it was our last experience with a camera-enabled Microsoft game, the limp You’re In The Movies.”

And when I say exciting I really do mean exciting, because I got a go on Project Natal and it’s everything you could possibly imagine it to be.

Well, trusting that they can get what they showed on shelves as is without it costing a ton or having to cut corners. But it’s too early to tell when they’re going to launch, so who knows?

“Don Mattrick, senior VP of Microsoft’s interactive entertainment business, says that the company has no intention of ditching traditional controller-based games following the unveiling of its motion sensing Project Natal.”

Hey! So while often my work pops up on Edge Online unexpectedly, today I’ve written stuff for it intentionally! How exciting.