Real Steel neither rocks nor rocks our block off.
boxing
Posted inMovies & TV
Split Decision
Wahlberg vs. Supporting Cast: Who Ya Got?
Mark Wahlberg gets knocked out… by his supporting cast.
Posted inVideo Games
Mini-Reviews: Fight Night Round 4, Prototype
Fight Night Round 4 — $60 — Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 If the Madden football games are EA’s bread and butter, Fight Night is the company’s horrifically contused lobster. For starters, FNR4 is a simply gorgeous game. It almost feels obscene that a game whose entire aesthetic output is devoted to the realistic depiction of […]
Posted inSports
Tyson vs. Snoop … WHO YA GOT?!?
*cue the voice of Michael Buffer* In the red corner … standing six feet, three and one half inches tall … and weighing in at one hundred, seventy five pounds … The Ess-En-Double-Oh-Pee Dee-Oh-Double-Geeeeeeeeeeeeee!! *Crazed applause from the crowd, sound of blunts being smoked and the suffix “izzle” being inappropriately added to nouns, verbs and […]
Posted inBooks
Mamma Said Knock You Out
Renowned Portland author Katherine Dunn talks to the Mercury
about the unjustly maligned sport of boxing.