[9 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
Wild Zero

Rock and Roll Zombies!!!! Trash and Chaossss!!!!

by Christopher Dutrieux
How can I put this movie into words? Simple. I can’t. It is a rare occasion that such a low budget japanese film can actually entertain me for the entire length of the movie. But after I saw an article in Fangoria magazine for this movie and finally getting it in the mail, I was bitch slapped in the face by glorious B-Cinema genius! I was amazed! This film is like a mix of “Dawn of the Dead” (by George Ramero) …

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[9 May 2009 | One Comment | ]
Welcome

Welcome to the new Rocket Punch! website.
After who knows how many years, I decided to re-start the website with renewed interest. I switched over to wordpress from php nuke and I’m in the progress of transferring some of the articles over from the old site.
Most of the articles are rather old, the most recent was 2004. I lost a lot of the newer articles to content hacks and bad backup habits, but at most the newest articles would be from 2005 or 2006.
So far I’ve acquired one blog writer and …

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[25 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]

Columbia is planning a new film based on pulp hero Doc Savage, according to Variety. The film in development is being co-written and will be directed by Shane Black, who’s best known as the writer of the Lethal Weapon films, the Last Boy Scout, and other films. Black directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Doc Savage is being produced by Neal Moritz (Green Hornet, Fast and Furious).
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Video Games, featured »

[5 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo

Dragon Ball returns to it’s roots with it’s new game for the Wii. Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo follows the origional Dragon Ball storyline from the manga and anime. The The game features cell shaded 3d Graphics, with all the illustrations based on the origional Akira Toriyama drawings, while the gameplay will be more action platform oriented instead of the current Brawler/Figther style games out for the Dragon Ball Z game line.
Impressions:
I was able to play this game at E3 and I loved it. I like the idea of …

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[5 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
E3 – Muramasa The Demon Blade Gamplay Video

Muramasa: The Demon Blade, is a beautiful action platformer by the guys who brought you Oden Sphere on the Ps2, Vanillaware. Exclusively on the Wii console, Muramasa features 2d Hand Drawn graphics, 16:9 Widescreen support and multiple endings to add to the replay value.

Hands on impression:
When I saw this game at E3, I was blow away by the graphics. The 2d graphics had a beautiful, hand drawn look about them and the action and animation was fast and fluid. I must admit, this is one of the best games …

Korean, Movies »

[12 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
Old Boy

What if you were kidnapped and held hostage for 15 years without being told why? And then, as if that weren’t maddening enough, one day you are released without being told why. Don’t know why you were kidnapped and don’t know why you were released. All you know is that you are going to dedicate the rest of your life to finding out who was responsible and hunting them down. That’s the premise of the Korean film-yes, another Korean film-titled Oldboy. As I write this Oldboy is situated at number …

Action Figures »

[11 May 2009 | No Comment | ]

Amazon.com
efrontier’s Anime Studio 5 is a complete 2D animation program for creating movies, cartoons, anime, or cut animations. Create your own desktop animated shorts in the style of South Park and JibJab, or use Anime Studio to produce full-length animation (up to two minutes) for film, video, or streaming over the web. It’s easy to quickly create simple camera …