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This is a pack of three games: Army Men: 3D is a three-dimensional war game in which you act as a commando-like soldier in a plastic, lilliputian world gone completely Saving Private Ryan. Army Men: 3D places you as Sarge, a lone soldier whose missions involve rescuing captured troops and returning them across a minefield, taking on an enemy fortress unaided, retrieving sensitive documents from spies in the field, sabotaging bridges and radar dishes, and the like. You’re in the Green army, which is at war with the Tan, and you’ve got an arsenal ranging from machine guns and bazookas to flame throwers and grenades–all of which you use to fight the good fight. There are even jeeps and tanks for you to drive around and over people. Army Men: Air Attack is a mission-based helicopter shooter. It gives the toy heroes command of a helicopter squadron with Apaches, Super Stallions, Chinooks, and Hueys. Jump onboard as these plastic choppers dominate th (more…)

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Jane Austen’s classic novel of 1813, Pride and Prejudice, still wins the hearts of countless schoolgirls with its romantic story of Elizabeth Bennet and her Mr. Darcy. Now, the 1996 BBC miniseries is winning over adults, with its faithful adaptation, gorgeous scenery, and superb acting. The essence of the story is the antagonism between Mr. Darcy, a wealthy single man who believes Elizabeth to be beneath him, and Elizabeth, who upon being insulted at a dance by the aloof Darcy refuses to associate with him in any manner. Austen evokes incredible tension with the wit and flirtation of the two characters, and director Simon Langton (who also directed Upstairs Downstairs) successfully translates the repartee and conflict in this six-hour miniseries. Dialogue, for the most part, is painstakingly replicated, except when fleshing out and smoothing for modern sensibilities was necessary. Darcy, for instance, is drawn out, giving his personality signific (more…)

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Lush, dramatic, and beautifully acted, the BBC’s three-part miniseries Sense & Sensibility captures the languid urgency that resonates throughout the Jane Austen novel on which it is based. The miniseries begins with a seduction scene: As a young girl cautiously gives herself to a man, she asks, “But when will you come back?” He answers ominously, “Soon… very soon,” and gallops off into the night. We know what she does not–that he will not return for her. But viewers do not learn until the end who the couple are, and how their actions set off a chain of events. It is inevitable that this period piece will be compared to the 1995 big screen adaptation that starred Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant, and won Thompson an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. To its credit, this later version stands up incredibly well, with actors whose looks match Austen’s written description. And due to a longer running time than the film version, there is more att (more…)