SPOILERS AHEAD. You’ve been warned. Although I mentioned it in my list of the most interesting games I played in 2013, I haven’t talked much about Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us. Which is a shame because despite a few quibbles the first episode of it was genuinely excellent! It set up an intriguing world … Continue reading The Wolf Among Us Recap – “Smoke and Mirrors”
Season One of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead was the best game I played last year by a fairly large margin. It was gripping, emotional, and challenging in its own right, not to mention the fact that it completely reinvented the concept of a Point-and-Click Adventure game and broke new ground in interactive storytelling. When … Continue reading The Walking Dead: Season Two Recap – “All That Remains”
As of this moment, I really have no idea how I feel about Escape from Tomorrow. So much of the discussion on this film has centered around the audacious and unprecedented nature of the way it was shot – covertly, without authorization at Disneyland and Walt Disney World – and the potential legal ramifications of … Continue reading Movie Review – Escape from Tomorrow
Remakes are funny things. There are some films that are true classics in every sense of the word, enduring through time and remaining just as relevant today as the moment they were released – films that no one should even consider remaking. On the other hand, there are films that have an interesting idea, but … Continue reading Movie Review – Carrie
Movies centered on sports – ostensibly based on true stories – are a dime a dozen this time of year. They’re often family friendly fluff*, occasionally with pretenses of being Oscar bait, and most of the time completely interchangeable. There are a few standouts that have been strong enough to leave an impact, but by … Continue reading Movie Review – Rush
I didn’t get a chance to talk about it much here, but The Conjuring was quite possibly my favorite movie of this past summer. As someone who does not typically consider himself a horror fan, The Conjuring hit all the right notes for me. It had a good setup that paid off through the rest … Continue reading Movie Review – Insidious: Chapter 2
Back in May, Film Crit Hulk wrote a really great piece on why movie reviews are weird (also on why Iron Man Three is unconventionally good, but that’s less relevant to our goals here). In it he describes how, in many cases, a movie review puts the reader at a disadvantage because they haven’t actually seen the … Continue reading Go See YOU’RE NEXT – Not a Movie Review
Just a note up front: this is one of those movies where much of the nitty-gritty of my opinion comes from the later parts of the film. That said, I’ll try to dance around most of the major story beats, but if you’ve already decided to see this one, you’re better off going without reading … Continue reading Movie Review – Elysium
Every weekend this year (more-or-less) I’ve gone to see the latest movie. This has worked fairly well so far; I’ve only had to subject myself to irredeemable awfulness on a handful of occasions. This weekend, I was really hoping that I would get to see The Spectacular Now, a movie that I’ve been hearing nothing … Continue reading Movie Review – Fruitvale Station
In the past, I’ve briefly touched on my theory that nearly every year since 2008* DreamWorks Animation has had a pretty consistent streak of one good movie and one bad movie. 2008 had Kung Fu Panda and then it had Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 2010 had How to Train Your Dragon and then there was … Continue reading Movie Review – Turbo
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