Aaron’s Top 10 Video Games of 2010
December 28th, 2010 by Aaron Neuwirth
I don’t get a chance to write about video games often, so I am pleased to be able to provide a rundown of the games I have enjoyed playing the most this year. I may not be a professional game reviewer, but I know what I like vs. what frustrates me in video games; and even in a time where my free time has dwindled (yes, part of my living involves watching movies and writing about them, but it’s still work, dammit!), I still managed to play a lot of games. Continue reading ‘Aaron’s Top 10 Video Games of 2010’
Another year has come and almost gone, leaving in its wake, many Blu-rays littered about. Some good, some not so good. In what will be an ongoing tradition, WhySoBlu has asked for my thoughts on the best Blu-rays of the year. The following article is MY personal top ten favorite Blu-rays of 2010 for your viewing and reading pleasure. Please keep in mind that I have not seen or reviewed every blu-ray that has come out this year, so if you don’t see a film that you think is great that I may have missed, don’t be upset. I probably haven’t seen the Blu-ray or the post office lost my package. Here is my list. 
There were some highs and some lows this year (at times, some real lows) at the cinema. Fanboys rejoiced with the revival of the Predator franchise in addition to a certain comic book sequel brought to us by Jon Favreau. It was a year of cowboys and dragons and dancers, oh my! January brought us Jackie Chan in The Spy Next Door, and 2010 closed out with December’s star-studded cast in True Grit. While my top ten Blu-ray list remained somewhat consistent throughout the year, this best of cinema list jumped around like five-year old at a birthday party. 
Another year is almost in the books, and another year of top 10’s has already begun gracing the pages of Why So Blu. No, not the top Ten Commandments; this bit’s about Blu-rays. It looks like I’m up to the plate now for me to happily reveal what worked for me in 2010. There are probably some unexpected choices on here as well as others that are no surprise. Some Blu-ray releases even provided a better product than I was hoping for, which is always a welcomed change. From elves to GI’s and sports to music, the 2010 library covered the bases for me. I give you my best Blu-rays of 2010… 
The only thing better than Billy the Exterminator Season One is Billy the Exterminator Season Two! Right? To be completely honest, Season Two doesn’t have a lot of new things in it, but that is okay. More Billy the Exterminator is a very good thing. Season Two was just as entertaining as Season One.
ARCHER The Complete First Season arrives on DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on December 28, 2010 and we got 3 copies to give away to 3 lucky winners. This FX original animated half-hour comedy series premiered 14 January, 2010. The show is set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crisis are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other. TIME Magazine’s James Poniewozik wrote “If you want your action parody and office sitcom all in one, Archer may well be the spy you’ll love.” 
Making a Top Ten list of Blu-rays was a lot harder than I thought it would be. The fact that there’s so many excellent releases that I haven’t seen yet just made it even harder because I know a lot of them would be on my list. So I decided to make a list of the Top 10 Blu-rays that I’ve seen and most likely reviewed, and another list of Blu-rays that I really want to see and would most likely would have been included in this list if I had seen them. 
I don’t know why I wanted to see Little Fockers more, for my love of the first two films or that the lovely Jessica Alba would be partaking in the newest entry of Meet The Parents? However, I will say this. I have become less and less enchanted with Mrs. Alba every time she opens her mouth in the press or types a new Twitter message. Why do I follow or care? Good question! I have no idea. But we’re not here to discuss that. We’re here to find out how Little Fockers measures up against the previous two installments. 
As of a few weeks ago, I had no intention of writing this article, simply because I had no material worthy of this honor. The top 40 on the radio usually consists of “in the moment” tunes that may be decent, but come from albums that lack a solid performance from the first track to the last. From where I stood, it was an anemic year for music. Linkin Park brought us something new, but not necessarily something exciting. The Black Eyed Peas’ latest work didn’t exactly send people to the moon either. Another example is the band Daughtry, of whom I’m a fan. Their collaboration with Carlos Santana covering Def Lepperd’s “Photograph” was uninspiring to say the least. What’s that mean when even bands you like aren’t measuring up? It means quality is going to hit you when you least expect it. 
The calendar year of 2010 in the world of Blu-ray was a pretty easy one to judge, at least In my opinion. But when I dwell on what 2011 holds in store, I’m nearly having an aneurysm thinking about all the competition such as the “Holy Grail”of Star Wars films and Tron: Legacy, just to name a few. That’s going to be one hell of a year for Blu-ray. So anyway, it’s still 2010 so I will stop digressing and getting ahead of myself. 
How Do You Know? — Wow! Look at the lineup… America’s Sweetheart Reese Witherspoon, funny man Paul Rudd, popular actor Owen Wilson, screen legend Jack Nicholson and TV and movie mogul James L. Brooks involved in this one… What could go wrong? Anything and everything… This 2-hour rom-com is neither romantic, nor comedic… It’s ANEMIC! Reese is torn between Owen and Paul, and Jack is Paul’s father, who has no problem throwing sonny-boy under the bus (sub-plot here…) when it’s convenient to his business life… 
I’ve seen and enjoyed the first movie in the Step Up franchise but I was not aware that a sequel was ever made until Step Up 3 was released. The first and the third movies don’t have much in common, except for one character I noticed, and a lot of dancing. A google search tells me that Step Up 3 carries over characters from Step up 2: The Streets. Despite not having not seen the second film, I did not feel I was lost as Step Up 3 works well as a stand alone movie. 
SALT is one of those films, just like my recent review of 
