Reviews

“One of the all-time great MMORPGs. I am so glad there was no way to log the number of hours I played this game. Years of my childhood are sunk into this. The multi-class skill system was revolutionary, and the PVP experience was unmatched. All of this bolstered by the fact that a broke teenager could buy it once and play it forever.”

Review of Red Dead Redemption 2

Take a gamble that love exists and do a loving act. I can't understand how anyone can replay this game so quickly as my first playthrough alone is taking well over 200 hours. What Rockstar has done he...

“Innerspace is a sci-fi comedy about a devil-may-care test pilot, Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) ,shrunken smaller than a blood cell. After an attack on the lab where he was shrunk a scientist injected into the butt of Jack Putter (Martain Short). What happens next is classic 1980s hi-jinks with a sprinkling of pretty good practical effects. This of this as a lessor version of Ghostbusters.”

“What a waste of such an interesting premise and setting. A second season with no payoff, no meaningful progression, ending in a cadre of unredeemed, unlikeable characters. What could have been a fun twist on a format ended up being as meandering and meaningless as the thing it was aiming to subvert.”

“An irritating, and at-times preachy lump of a film that's nowhere near as smart as it would like to be. Ah, yes. If only someone told those physicists who simulated the black hole (did you know, did you?)—Across the event horizon, not to worry. Toss the silver! Worked for Aubrey and Maturin, worked for Napoleon. Incomplete, of course, without a hackneyed bootleg Kubrick sequence. What a bore.”

“I checked my phone after watching this and my Oura ring asked me if I napped for an hour and 15 minutes. I did really enjoy the blood stuff and the soundtrack.”

“Despite inventive camerawork, fantastic visuals, and a noteworthy score, there's only so much time one can be expected to sit listening to breathless, disembodied voices bark gruff, grave nonsense at each other and stammer, before something else ought to happen. And yet... Agonizingly slow, and with relatively little payoff. Forty minutes or so of this probably should have been cut.”

“Self indulgent, gratuitous and a little more than self important this is a strange artifact best forgotten. So much nightmare fuel the violence just gets boring. It is animated well though.”

“Performative read. Fanfic about Donna's own dream life.....to be surrounded by such intellectual boy toys, oh dear.”

“Evan Peters, cannibalism, I give it an A”

“most iconic self-titled of the 90s, I will die on this hill”

“so annoying, it's basically an anime about a pick-me autist who happens to be attractive and good at a few things (vaguely?) and that's about it.”

“profound”

“More brutal. Better weapons More enemies.More over the top fun. One weapon, the Cerebral Bore, is a small projectile that will follow an enemy around corners and off cliffs, attach to the victim's skull, suction their brains out and explode.”

“Brutal. Fun. Over the top. This is a classic late 90s FPS that seemed to come out of nowhere. Lots of fun.”

“A stiff and bloated clone of Metal Gear: Solid but manages to hold a place in my heart. I would rent this game frequently from Blockbuster and play it all weekend. I wish It could be remastered and released in a modern console.”

“What a strange collage of missed opportunities. Every last bit of the charm of the webseries is conspicuously absent, here. Thoughtful ambience replaced with an abusive degree of corny narration. The technical intrigue of its setting reworked into a never-ending therapy session. A bureaucratic entity weighing profit against research? Gone. Perhaps the monster was the viewer all along... Yawn.”

Review of Primal - Season 1

It seems difficult to explain why Primal's Season 1 is good without first supplying something of a state-of-the-union. Good, in what sense? And of course, we’d be remiss not to take a perfectly good c...

Review of Resident Evil - Season 1

Ah. Another day, another corporate broomstick shoved up the backside of source material that somebody, somewhere, at some point, used to love. Another lovely, sunny day in the modernist beehive, prais...

“Carried by the brilliant performances of its two leads, director Uberto Pasolini's view of Odysseus's return to Ithaca strips the metaphysical substance from the text, opting instead to present an historical drama. It lags a bit, at times; evidently it's difficult to excise the story's mythical imperatives without also gutting Odysseus's motives. But on the whole, the film is certainly compelling.”

Nolan's Odyssey: An Autopsy

A film made by those who don't particularly like the Odyssey, for those who have never read the Odyssey. And at that, it's still not even fun to hate, like so many other products of cinematic activism...

Dud

When you watch a movie, you're often under the influence of the sunk cost fallacy. Because you've already invested your time and money, you're naturally more inclined to convince yourself that you enj...

“If this was a better written book I think I might have enjoyed it more. This is not...bad...just written for people with more than a casual understanding of ancient warfare and the Mediterranean world.”

“Inside Matt Damon there are two wolves, both are really confused”