Review of Black Jacket
Mi'pu'mi Games
Calling it Blackjack Balatro does this game a disservice. Black Jacket is a thoughtful and touching story told through a well-balanced and rich deckbuilding game. It's difficult to fully convey what m...
Se7en
David Fincher
“get ready with me for my head unboxing”
Review of X-Men: The Last Stand
Brett Ratner
Wow. This…this sucked. Is it unwatchable? No. They do fulfill a couple of promises from the X‑Men canon: we see the Danger Room and a Sentinel. But… In the previous movie, they had Alan Cumming as Nig...
Review of X2
Bryan Singer
X2: X‑Men United does a lot of things right. It adds more mutants. It adds light and color. The fights are bigger and better. It’s like they didn’t trust the first movie to do well, so they held back....
Review of X-Men
Bryan Singer
The ’90s were a bad time for comic book fans. Marvel had filed for bankruptcy and was selling off its IP to different studios. Producers did fifteen minutes of research, stunt‑cast the biggest stars t...
Review of Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
Neil Gaiman
Batman was created by Bob Kane and first published in 1939. That’s nearly nine decades of artists, inkers, and storytellers giving us infinite permutations of this character, each one just as real and...
Fight Club
David Fincher
“Me and the baddie I pulled by being schizophrenic.”
Her
Spike Jonze
“Wow, what a strange movie and guy. 2013 was such a crazy time. Good thing we don't have anything like this now.”
Interview with the Vampire - Season 2
Rolin Jones
“cue dramatic piano music ..And Juan looked up at the painting and saw that Theresa’s dead husband was Roberto. He had eloped with his enemy’s widow. It’s a telenovela!”
Interview with the Vampire - Season 1
Rolin Jones
“My favorite genre: Unreliable narrators”
Lars and the Real Girl
Craig Gillespie
“Lars and the town that loved him :(”
Ex Machina
Alex Garland
““You tore up her picture!” “I’m gonna tear up this fucking dance floor dude. Check it out.” Not a big fan of that knife situation, but uhhh good for her actually!”
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry
“I wish I’d stayed. I wish I’d done a lot of things. oh Im SICK”
A Fresh Spider-Man
Spider-Noir - Season 1 · Oren Uziel
I loved Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its sequel. One of the biggest surprises was Spider-Noir, hilariously voiced by Nicolas Cage. He is a version of Spider-Man from a noir universe where the...
Meccha Chameleon
LEMORION
“Introducing another simple friend-slop game. It performs well despite being a rough around the edges indie release. Although it will likely end up a passing fad in the same vein as Among Us, it doesn't make it any less of a joy to play with some friends.”
The Prestige
Christopher Nolan
“"Are you watching closely?" mmmm yes I think so? "Are You watching closely?" holy fuck”
Backrooms
Kane Parsons
“Backrooms displays promising chops from the newcomer. Unfortunately the fun aesthetic and cinematography is dragged down by tired tropes, uninteresting characters, and a meandering script which lacks direction and focus.”
Doin' too much
They Will Kill You · Kirill Sokolov
I wanted this movie to be good. I like Patricia Arquette and Zazie Beetz, and this looked like the kind of fun, over-the-top action film built around showcasing great fight choreography. Can the stunt...
Nostalgia served over ice
Stranger Things - Season 1 · Ross Duffer
Nostalgia is like whiskey: enjoyable in moderation, but not something you should rely on for happiness. Sooner or later, you risk developing an unhealthy relationship with it. Stranger Things lures yo...
Oh yeah...THIS movie...
Justice League · Zack Snyder
I was sitting at home when a commercial for Justice League came on television. I said to myself that I needed to see it before it left theaters. A moment later, I remembered that I had seen this movie...
What the !@%$ was that?
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · Zack Snyder
Like what you like. If you enjoy Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, then by all means continue to love it. If the movie works for you emotionally, that's perfectly fine. I am being sincere. I do not...
Review of Masters of the Universe
Travis Knight
"To thine own self be true." If there is a movie that embodies that sentiment, at least in a meta sense, it is Masters of the Universe. If you can't appreciate a movie that is unapologetically itself...
Aiming for profound but hit soap opera sullen
What About the Bodies · Ken Jaworowski
In high school and college creative writing classes, you inevitably read stories written by your peers that attempt profundity through impossibly hard-luck circumstances, deeply unhappy people, relent...
Back at it
Take Care, Take Care, Take Care · Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky’s sixth album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, starts strong and finishes just as strongly. Not since How Strange, Innocence has one of their albums felt so much like a complete...