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Category Archives: Reviews

Aug 01, 2017Aug 01, 2017

Tacoma Review: Found in Space

Perhaps more than anything else, Tacoma is proof that a decent story, brilliantly told (which Tacoma is) is far better than a brilliant story, decently told. The follow-up to their debut masterpiece, Gone Home, Tacoma […]

Jul 24, 2017Dec 21, 2017

Pyre Review: The Fires of Freedom

Games almost always want us to feel like a great deal is at stake. Our hero’s life, or the outcome of a war, or maybe the fate of the universe. But few games succeed at […]

Jun 05, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Wonder Woman: The Hero We Need in a Film That Falls Short

After seeing Wonder Woman last Friday and having a chat on Facebook Live to share our immediate impressions, Anita and I exchanged emails this weekend to discuss the film in more detail once we’d had […]

May 25, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Jungletown and Reality TV: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being and ‘Surviving’

The onslaught of headlines indicating some dark times – regarding immigration, education, and healthcare, to name just a few areas of concern and crisis – have left a lot of us looking for escapist entertainment in our […]

Mar 23, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Blue Belle: Femininity, Fashion and a ‘Tale as Old as Time’

Let’s state the obvious right up front: Beauty and the Beast is a Disney film. What this means is that it follows a long history of formulaic narratives involving young women in a bit of […]

Mar 16, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Logan: A Film Fighting With Itself

It’s telling that Logan, Hugh Jackman’s final outing as Wolverine after playing the character for 17 years, heavily references a moment in Shane, the legendary 1953 Western. Specifically, it references the moment when gunfighter Shane […]

Mar 01, 2017Nov 18, 2020

Well, Too Bad We Can’t Stay

I saw Get Out among a predominantly white audience this weekend. The decision was spontaneous and swift — there was a showing near me (in the white-ass suburb in which I live) at the perfect […]

Feb 09, 2017Feb 09, 2017

The Final Girl

There’s a line of dialogue about halfway through Split,  M. Night Shyamalan’s latest blockbuster, that masterfully illustrates precisely how this film careens smugly off the rails. Dr. Karen Fletcher (Betty Buckley), sympathetic psychiatrist to the movie’s […]

Sep 13, 2016Dec 08, 2016

ReCore Review

Man, I wanted to like ReCore. In its first few hours, both the game and its protagonist, Joule, exude such a scrappy, can-do attitude that I found myself really rooting for it. At a time […]

Aug 22, 2016Aug 29, 2016

Halt and Catch Fire – Season 3 Review

Struggling to get a mainframe computer working in the first episode of Halt and Catch Fire’s third season, Gordon (Scoot McNairy) refers to the uncooperative machine as “her.” Donna (Kerry Bishé), one of the heads […]

Jul 18, 2016Dec 31, 2016

Ghostbusters (2016) Review

In the 1989 film Ghostbusters II, Peter, Ray, Winston and Egon discover that “mood slime” is being powered by all the hatred and aggression in New York to bring the city to the brink of […]

May 16, 2016Aug 26, 2016

Adventure Bros: Nathan Drake and the Awkward Adolescence of the Action Adventure Genre

NOTE: This post contains major spoilers for Uncharted 4. That’s Hajime Tabata, director of Final Fantasy XV, discussing why that game’s core party is made up entirely of men. I thought of Tabata’s words when […]

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