Roy Scheider dead at 75

We lost a great Everyman today. He did “scared shitless, but dammit, we gotta get through this” as well as anyone, ladled with equal parts grit and humanity. Loved his Frank Murphy in Blue Thunder, as well as his Heywood Floyd in 2010. (And his Chief Brody, naturally.) RIP.

BioShock

(Some minor spoilers.) Well, I finished Gears of War, so now I’m into BioShock in a big way. It’s 1960. Your plane crashes over the Atlantic Ocean, a short swimming distance from a lighthouse. Inside the lighthouse is a bathysphere, which you take to Rapture, a city on the ocean floor. Rapture is rendered in … Read more

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