You'd need to have hidden under a rock not to bump into the engaging and popular mathematical puzzle game Sudoku. Invented by Japanese puzzle enthusiast Maki Kaji, it's a 9x9 grid comprised of 9 3x3 boxes. Each 3x3 box, each row, and each column can only contain a...
There are a very small number of movies that have had a profound impact upon our culture, jumping immediately to the status of cult classic or, in some instances, genre classic. The Matrix, released in 1999, was just such a hit, a film that turned actor Keanu Reeves...
I'd be lying if I said I completely understood the wild and entertaining Chinese action film Schemes in Antiques, but I enjoyed it quite a bit nonetheless. It's an action film about two antiques experts who compete to solve a series of obscure puzzles and riddles to...
When Kingsman: The Secret Service premiered in 2014, it was a sleeper hit. A wry, self-aware take on James Bond and the spy genre, it starred agent Eggsy Unwin (Taron Egerton) as a disaffected young man recruited by a secret, independent spy agency secretly run out of...
Emerging as a seer of the hippie generation, author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. has had quite an impact on Western, and particularly American culture. I remember reading and being fascinated by many of his works, notably Slaughterhouse-Five Or The Children's Crusade and Cat's...
Planet Dave is run by Dave Taylor, who has been writing about film, cars, games, and his lifestyle for many years. He's based in Boulder, Colorado and assures readers he's only occasionally falling into a gravity well or temporal distortion field.
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