As much as I wanted to see someone finally make an ANGEL game, I'm totally on-board for a new Buffy game. So here's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sacrifice for the Nintendo DS.

I loved the first Xbox game, and the GBA game was fun too. The old GBC game and the Xbox/PS2/Cube sequel "Chaos Bleeds"? Not so much. So who knows what'll happen here, but I'm gonna play it regardless.

Get Smart - Terrance Stamp plays... Siegfried! Let's get the changes out of the way first: Siegfried is more of a serious villian, Max starts off as a new agent instead of as an experienced one (which makes 99 much more hostile towards him), and the Chief is basically a completely new character. Otherwise? This is TOTALLY Get Smart. I used to watch that show all the time on Nick at Nite in my younger years, and I know it inside and out. The humor is the same, largely avoid the more ribald comedy that has held movies in its kung-fu grip in recent years. 86 and 99 have much of the same working relationship by the second half of the film, and particularly by the end. Smaller characters like Larabee and even Hymie show up. Cone of Silence? We got that - but upgraded! Shoe phone? Yeah. Catchphrases? Bust this:

"Missed it by THAT much." - Twice
"Would you believe... " - Twice, one of which is nearly an exact copy of the one from the first "Claw" episode that I remember fondly.
"Sorry about that, Chief." - Once
"Oh, Max... " - Twice
"...and LOVING it!" - Not in the movie, but IS on the poster.

So yeah, I was very satisfied with its faithfulness, but more importantly, it is FUNNY. Very funny at times. A little hit-and-miss at others, but overall? It's a victory. Very pleased. And I suspect that Steve Carrell's entire existence up to this point has solely been to serve the purpose of playing Maxwell Smart in a remake.

Wanted - Terrance Stamp plays... some mysterious monk! I was sorta unsure about the first third, kinda hating it during the second third and then LOVED the last third of this movie. So it's like a rollercoaster of ups and downs, but here is the most important thing you need to know about this movie: The group of assassins is also a group of weavers. They receive their orders of who to kill when they are woven - in binary code - by the "Loom of Fate." Who built the Loom? Beats me. It just exists. Who runs the Loom? No one. Fate, God, who knows? It runs itself. It's magic. It's God's Sewing Machine. And they've been using it to get assassination orders for 1,000 years. Who taught them how to read binary code 1,000 years ago? Um, who knows? This is the singular most ridonkulous and hilarious plot device I have seen in a movie in at least 5 years, if not more. When the Loom of Fate appeared, Maria and I couldn't stop laughing. And then we couldn't stop cracking jokes about the Loom of Fate (OMG LOOM OF FATE) for the rest of the movie. And giggling to each other. And grinning whenever assloads of yarn would show up. The Loom of Fate and its wooly, mile-long blanket of doom completely OWNZOR you, and don't you forget it. Anyway, movie has some annoying characters, some cool ones, some great action towards the end, some really annoying stuff in the start and middle, Morgan Freeman is cool, it's basically kind of a wash. But I don't care that much, but it gave us the LOOM OF FATE, which magically weaves orders of DEATH in a NONEXISTANT CODE, all by itself, because the Angel of Death loves fuzzy sweaters or some shit, I don't know!