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A Visual Rip Current: Leviathan Review
Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope? Job 41:1 Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan embodies the very spirit of the mythical and biblical sea-beast it’s titled...
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What’s Below: The Surface #1 Review
When asked about the origins of The Surface in an interview with Paste, writer/creator Ales Kot answered with: “My overwhelming need to be loved and appreciated.” And with the debut of The Surface, Kot...
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A New Road: Furious 7 Review
Sure, Furious 7 can be cheesier than Wisconsin and has a plot with more holes than a California road, but it doesn’t matter. The Furious films have never been so much about sense than about senses....
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What We Feel: Inside Out Review
Do cartoons matter? While Pixar and Ghibli have long since proven that animation is as and sometimes more powerful than live action cinema, a dismissive attitude towards “children films” still exists....
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New Ways to Film: Holy Motors Review (Best of Netflix)
Note: The “best of Netflix” tag will be used to mark films that at the date of the post’s publication are streaming on Netflix. The films chosen should be of particular interest to filmmakers and...
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Netflix and Cry: Beasts of No Nation Review
Beasts of No Nation opens with the story’s hero, Agu, and his gang of friends peddling the frame from an old CRT television. To fill the screenless shell, the boys enact tropish roles one would find in...
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Can Modern Video Games Be Timeless?: On Reboots and Remakes
Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds are all timeless works: no matter how much time passes they remain thoroughly enjoyable. In games, we have Pong...
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A Quick Defense of Pixel Art in Games
Pixel art in games is simultaneously fetishized over for the nostalgia inducing powers and treated with disdain for not adhering to modern “graphical” standards. Graphics and art style are certainly […]
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Inside Your Head: Playdead’s INSIDE Review (No Spoilers)
AAA Atmosphere It’s been a few days since I’ve completed Playdead’s “INSIDE” and I still find it difficult not to aggressively sell the game like I’m getting paid commission. “INSIDE”, […]
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Be Weird: Swiss Army Man Film Review
Swiss Army Man is a film for the very people that would hate it—for those that would walk out of the theater and demand a refund when Daniel Radcliffe’s (Harry […]
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Good and Evil: Pokémon Go Review
Pokémon Go arrives at a time of social turmoil, steamrolling a gridlocked national discourse on race, police brutality, and politics with a timing that conspirators’ dreams are made of. It’s […]
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Sensory Limbo: Thumper Review
Thumper is the kind of game that exudes hypnotic energy so strongly that it persuades you to pontificate on its behalf. Thumper has me looking up synonyms for violence. Thumper will […]
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Best Belated Games of the Year (2016): Foreword
Okay, I’m late, but, hey, every year we argue that these “best of the year” lists are arbitrary, so what does it matter anyway. But then again, I suppose these […]
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Best Belated Games of the Year #10 (2016): Darks Souls 3
I put around 60 hours into Dark Souls 3 and somehow the experience has unfurled into a single continuous feeling rather than highly memorable moments. DS3 didn’t ooze with the style and […]
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Best Belated Games of the Year #9 (2016): Superhot
I’m really tempted to just write SUPER—HOT—SUPER—HOT—SUPER—HOT for 300 words, but I’ll spare you the lame reference to the titular title at #9. Superhot matters because its designers saw a novel […]
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Fear as Fantasy: Resident Evil 7 biohazard Review
Home is where the horror is. No other theme is more apparent in Resident Evil’s terrifying return to form. Resident Evil 7 trades the globe-trotting, biotech conspiracies found in the last two...
View ArticleThe 12 Objectively Best Films of 2017
I had the privilege of watching over 30 theatrical releases this year. Yeah, that’s a lot of movies. But hey, some men buy boats, others build classic automobiles with their […]
View ArticleYet Another Best 10 Games of 2018 List
2018 has been the shortest 6 years of my life. I almost thought I only played enough games for a top 5 list. That is until I compiled this inventory […]
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