Short Reviews: Helvetica, Aeon Flux (feature film)

Helvetica: You wouldn't think a documentary about a type font would be very interesting would you? Well, you'd be right. Fortunately Helvetica expands outward, using the mid-fifties origin of what might the most popular signage font in the world to explore the process of modern graphics and design, showing the how fads come and go, but certain things like the ubiquitous font seem to stick around just from their sheer utility.

Aeon Flux: Starring Charlize Theron, this loud, incoherent and unbelievable adaptation of the original MTV animated series has only the saving grace of being very pretty to look at even as you try to shut off your brain before it explodes from having its suspension of disbelief meter broken. In that respect it's a perfect adaptation of the animated show.

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"This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year-old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African-American President." -- Mark Shields, PBS

Review: Fallout, New Vegas

Summary: In the post-apocalyptic Nevada of 2280, you play a courier who had the bad luck to get the wrong assignment, and end up buried in a shallow grave with two bullets in your brain pan. This seems to have left you a bit peeved, so now you must travel across the desert to New Vegas to confront your assailant, and uncover the mystery behind New Vegas' reclusive protector, Mr. House, and the plans of the New California Republic and Caesar's Legion, who are locked in a stalemate for control of Hoover Dam.

Before too long, you'll have to choose who to support, Mr. House, the NCR, Caesar's Legion... or yourself.

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