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A Dismal Tide: The Rover’s Neo-Western Nature

By Wyeth Leslie • October 9th, 2024

The Rover’s version of the West is as wounded as Eric and Rey, from the abandoned mines to the weather-worn outposts.

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Horror and Human Frailty

By Michael Caruso • October 1st, 2024

Accept the reality of your mortality, for better or for worse.

Casting Deep Meteo

A still from the TV show Alone shows a man in a bright red cap standing on riverbank, his figure small against the wilderness.

Alone But For the Harsh Gaze of Doctor Nature

By Levi Rubeck • October 10th, 2024

Everyone with a remote in their hand is an expert, we all feel this way from the comfort of home.

A screenshot from Venba shows a woman with dark hair fretting over a pot cooking on a stove.

Molokhia

By Jay Castello • October 9th, 2024

I wish I knew my grandmother’s recipes. I wish I hadn’t been taught to be mean to her about them.

I Played It, Like, Twice

A picture of The Ghosts Betwixt on the table with a colorful map of a house full of tiles with baseball bat swinger, slingshot dead eye, golf homie, and baddies with kitchen weapons and stained clothes

Everyone’s Heard the Stories: Dungeon Crawling in the Haunted Heartland with The Ghosts Betwixt

By Orrin Grey • October 8th, 2024

The Ghosts Betwixt takes a cue from Stranger Things to tell a story set in the “1990s haunted heartland”

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Comedian Conan O'Brien onstage at the 2024 Newport Folk Festival.

The Newport Folk Festival Has a New Friend

By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2024

Conan O’Brien isn’t Pete Seeger or Joni Mitchell, but he did the Newport Folk Festival proud.

A screenshot from Watch Dogs Legion where a player character in a purple mask and crown rides a large drone with blaring red Error messages towards the clocktower Big Ben as the sun is setting

The Ambivalence of Resistance

By Zonghang Zhou • October 7th, 2024

Once these antagonizing powers are crushed, the rationality that sustains and justifies our actions will be accordingly diluted and quickly absorbed.

Eat the Reich

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 7th, 2024

Name something better than tearing a nazi in half with your bare hands. You can’t!

A screenshot from The Girl with All the Gifts movie, with a young Black girl laying down horizontally in a cot wearing an orange ill fitting suit holding her hands together and contemplating

Who Deserves the Future?

By Jonathan Fenn • October 4th, 2024

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes highlights the lack of conviction from which post-apocalyptic stories often suffer, in their insistence in constantly refocusing on humanity’s story.

A collection of PS3 games displayed spine-out on a shelf.

Out of Reach, Out of Mind

By Phoenix Simms • October 4th, 2024

When you strictly define games as a commercial product you devalue the prominent place games and their rhetoric now have in our current zeitgeist.

A screenshot from the trailer of Children of Men where a post British man is walking by a line of riot cops in front of a vandalized wall

Checkmate: A Review of Overshoot

By Autumn Wright • October 3rd, 2024

It may feel like we are checked, but the missiles are still in the air, the destruction of in development fossil capital is still unrealized. It’s checkmate.

A screenshot from The Substance with Demi Moore staring into a mirror with bold red lipstick and a red dress, gold earrings, and an intense look on her face

You Can’t Escape from Yourself: The Substance (2024)

By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2024

One of my pet peeves in modern horror films is when the central premise works only as metaphor, not as actual text.

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