No Bright Side: Crimewave (1985) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • April 7th, 2021 In many ways, Crimewave is the kind of movie I live for: a bonkers, underseen, early-career flick from legendary filmmakers who went on to much bigger things.
World Tour Spain By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 2nd, 2021 Things get messy on this trip to Spain, really messy.
Exploits Feature A Tale of Two Godzillas By Evan Dennis • March 31st, 2021 One of the longest enduring myths in cinema was how there were supposedly two distinct endings to 1962’s King Kong vs Godzilla.
Rookie of the Year Wookie of the Year By Matt Marrone • March 31st, 2021 It’s part of growing up in America, that moment when a child discovers Star Wars.
No Accounting for Taste Oddly Familiar By Adam Boffa • March 4th, 2021 A documentary from 2013 offers the chance to rethink some recent conversations in US politics.
They Live is Evergreen By David Peddicord • February 3rd, 2021 They Live’s messaging isn’t just evergreen; it is the kind of film you can read from just the memes of star Roddy Piper putting on magical sunglasses and discovering subliminal messages behind advertisements.
I Got Myself a Plan: Tremors (1990) on a Very Fancy New Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • January 22nd, 2021 When I was a kid, I had a short list of favorite monster movies that had come out during my lifetime, and Tremors was right at the top.
Self-Insert Rarepairs By Amanda Hudgins • January 5th, 2021 Their pairing often isn’t just not canon – it’s so far off the beaten path that other writers maybe don’t even see it themselves…
World Tour Germany By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 4th, 2021 Bring out your beers and your bratwurst, and let’s get going! On tap: Herzog’s Aguirre and Wenders’ Wings of Desire.
Best of 2020 The Best Movies of 2020 By Team Unwinnable • December 30th, 2020 At this point, it’s almost parody, the movies’ editor writing a screed about how terrible the movies list is; “This list is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here…nothing valued is here.”
Things Change: the Last Starfighter on Blu-Ray By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2020 Add The Last Starfighter to the list of movies I was positive I had seen but actually hadn’t.
Self-Insert Tagging By Amanda Hudgins • December 3rd, 2020 Tagging fics is both a conversation and a function in fanfiction.
Exploits 2010 – 2019 By Stu Horvath • December 1st, 2020 Do not party like it’s 2019. Wear masks. Be socially distant. Stay home.
World Tour Brazil By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 27th, 2020 Welcome to this month’s stop on our world tour! Take a break from post-election stress, sip your Cachaça and let’s dive right in to Bacurau.
Nearing the End of the World: Warning from Space (1956) By Orrin Grey • November 19th, 2020 Warning from Space spends 90% of its running time watching people waiting for things.
Bad Bosses and Evil Ed By Michael Baginski • November 18th, 2020 Evil Ed, for all its ridiculousness and over exaggerated actors, hides a message about labor exploitation in the film industry and how one’s mental health can be seriously affected on the job.
Always Autumn There Are Many Ways to Apocalypse. By Autumn Wright • November 2nd, 2020 As much as it is about the extraordinary ways in which people live their normal lives, Adventure Time is comprised of endings.
Another Look Sing It Out By Yussef Cole • October 30th, 2020 Lovers Rock, one of the films in Steve McQueen’s brilliant new “Small Axe” anthology about the UK’s West Indian community from the 1960s through the 1980s, is full of a palpable and irresistible energy.
World Tour Indonesia By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 23rd, 2020 That’s why Gone With the Wind is/was revered and why we’re inundated with period pieces that refuse to meaningfully interrogate the class/colonial violence that this splendor is built upon.
The Number of the Beast, Side B By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • October 9th, 2020 Hell and fire was spawned to be released.
Exploits Feature Sewing Machines at Dawn By Hannah Copestake • October 1st, 2020 Welcome to one of my favorite movies and my ultimate revenge film: The Dressmaker.
Talking Splats: An Interview About Insect in Films By Stephen Wilds • September 25th, 2020 Ahhhh! BUGS! Unwinnable talks to the BugDoctor about everything that creeps and crawls through pop culture.
Self-Insert Niche Interests By Amanda Hudgins • September 25th, 2020 “Sometimes, in fiction, you write about your experience so vividly, so precisely, that it could not have come from anyone but you.”
World Tour Finding the poetry in The Burial of Kojo By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 24th, 2020 An existential wail, followed by a look at Ghanaian film The Burial of Kojo.
World Tour England By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 4th, 2020 Oluwatayo starts his tour on his home turf of England with the film Bait and the latest album from Charmpit.
The Green Knight By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 31st, 2020 This week we check out the RPG based on the forthcoming A24 film The Green Knight.
Your Future is Metal: The Industrial Nightmares of Shinya Tsukamoto By Orrin Grey • August 25th, 2020 It’s all happening at ten thousand miles per hour.
Self Insert Quarantine Fics By Amanda Hudgins • August 10th, 2020 When the entire world is on lockdown, even alternate universes start hitting closer to home.
The Schwarzenegger Conan Movies By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 3rd, 2020 Vintage RPG Podcast listeners, what is best in life?
Awkward Brotherly Love: White Fire (1984) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • July 30th, 2020 What’s a little radioactive diamond between siblings?
Confusion Unto Madness: The Mad Fox (1962) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • July 28th, 2020 “Being the ugly American that I am, the film reminded me of the plays of Shakespeare.”
This Mortal Coyle Belle By Deirdre Coyle • July 8th, 2020 Deirdre played these Beauty and the Beast-inspired games so that you, dear reader, don’t have to.
Experiencing World War Z During a Pandemic By Evan Dennis • June 26th, 2020 World War Z suddenly feels extremely relevant.
Mazes and Monsters By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 25th, 2020 We watched Mazes and Monsters so you don’t have to. Please don’t watch Mazes and Monsters.
This Mortal Coyle Gerry from Graveyard Keeper By Deirdre Coyle • June 8th, 2020 I mean, really now, who hasn’t wanted to be friends with a talking, alcoholic skull?
Bloodlines We’re Not Alone in the Shadows By David Shimomura • June 8th, 2020 Horror director David Sandberg returns to his short film roots to tap pandemic anxieties.
I Played It, Like, Twice… Well, We Warned You: Playing Horrified During a Pandemic By Orrin Grey • May 22nd, 2020 Everything about Horrified echoes the Universal films in ways that will make fans of the original monster franchises grin.
