Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Destroy All Humans!

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

Aliens have long been determined to wipe out us puny earthlings. but with Destroy All Humans!, we finally get to play the angry alien. Arme...

Fantastic Four

Multi-platform

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

Rushed to meet the film’s release date, Fantastic Four has serious camera issues and a confusing, overly-linear plot that bolsters the movi...

Psychonauts

PS2

PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

After a decade toiling for George Lucas — and creating the classic PC adventure Grim Fandango — Tim Schafer launched his own company Double...

Breakestra w/ Dakah Hip-Hop Orchestra

PUBLISHED May 8, 2007

This was a gift for anyone who has ever complained about the sparseness of the typical two turntables and a microphone set-up. Two live hip...

Goldie Lookin' Chain

PUBLISHED May 8, 2007

Purporting to be the Welsh Wu-Tang Clan, Goldie Lookin' Chain are eight white "rappers” in awesome old-school track suits and preposterousl...

M.I.A.

PUBLISHED May 8, 2007

Unable to get into her night-time showcase, which had line-ups four hours before her set time, I weaselled into a private party where Maya...

Stephen Malkmus

PUBLISHED May 8, 2007

Look, I know dude was in Pavement and everything but, as Malkmus's impending Face the Truth warns, a cool pedigree does not guarantee that...

New York Dolls

PUBLISHED May 8, 2007

"This is like the Vanity Fair party for whatever this thing is,” mocked New York Doll David Johansen, rocking a midriff shirt, a skeletal I...