State of the F*cking Art: Albert Pyun’s Nemesis on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • January 18th, 2019 Nemesis epitomizes one of the ’90s weirdest subgenres: kickboxing cyborg movies.
See it from the Couch By David Shimomura • January 15th, 2019 I think there’s value in public experiences. But I also think we should acknowledge the power of choosing to engage completely on our terms.
No Accounting for Tastes Stressful Environment By Adam Boffa • January 15th, 2019 First Reformed considers the emotional impact of climate change awareness. Sometimes.
Here's the Thing The Near Miss By Rob Rich • January 10th, 2019 The over-reliance of CG in movies bothers just about everybody these days, but to Rob, “The Near Miss” is one of the most egregious offenses.
Documentary Sunday The Power of Glove By Megan Condis • January 10th, 2019 With videogame culture obsessed with retrofuturiusm, it’s only a matter of time before the ultimate nostalgic artifact makes a comeback: the Nintendo Power Glove.
Another Look Corrupted Architecture By Yussef Cole • January 8th, 2019 In both Bloodborne and The Favourite, wanton avarice rots leaders from within, spreading like a plague to their surroundings.
Best of 2018 The Best Movies of 2018 By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2018 This has been a weird year for movies.
You Better Watch Out By Zack Kotzer • December 20th, 2018 People are crazy about Christmas the same way Stadling is crazy about it, there’s just fewer murders.
Of Giallo and Gore: A Review By Orrin Grey • December 7th, 2018 Orrin Grey talks Torso and The Wizard of Gore and what the unlikely pair of ’70s horror movies have in common.
Self-Insert The Unsinkable Darcy Lewis By Amanda Hudgins • December 7th, 2018 A side character from Thor has almost 15,000 fanfics featuring her. Amanda Hudgins asks the question: Why does Darcy Lewis persist?
The Lost Magic of Disney’s Animation By David Shimomura • December 4th, 2018 Disney is remaking Aladdin and The Lion King in CGI. It is a terrible mistake.
Fantastic Beasts 2 the Crime of Cinema By Amanda Hudgins • December 3rd, 2018 There are no circumstances in which you should see this movie.
Documentary Sunday Terrace House By Megan Condis • November 28th, 2018 Unlike on American reality television, at no point do any of the residents of Terrace House seem interested in ceasing to be polite and starting to get “real.”
Lore’d of the Rings: The Horror of Knowledge By David Shimomura • November 27th, 2018 They say knowledge is power, but sometimes it is just isolating.
Who’s Afraid of the Big Brand Wolf? By Sean Donnelly • November 9th, 2018 Intertextuality is a weapon.
Another Look The Snowman Gets the David Cage Treatment By Yussef Cole • November 8th, 2018 Paper-thin characterizations and women stripped of their power? Yep, sounds like a Cage game.
Documentary Sunday The Bleeding Edge By Megan Condis • November 6th, 2018 The FDA has failed for decades in its duty to oversee medical technologies, with women disproportionately falling victim.
Exploits Feature The Draw of “Live” By David Shimomura • November 1st, 2018 Despite access to all the content in the world via broadband streaming, live performance will never lose its allure.
Halloween 2018 is an Unwelcome Trip Down Memory Lane By David Shimomura • October 30th, 2018 We’re stuck with a sequel with a 40-year time gap where mostly the same thing happens, except one of the characters is old and paranoid.
Unwinnable Week 3 Horror Movies! By David Shimomura • October 20th, 2018 Is it still October? Then Unwinnable still has horror movie recs for y’all.
Documentary Sunday Atari: Game Over Featuring an Interview with Andrew Reinhard By Megan Condis • October 13th, 2018 Andrew Reinhard, author of Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, explains why its important for archaeologists to study games.
Unwinnable Week 2 Horror Movies! By Team Unwinnable • October 12th, 2018 Unwinnable’s weekly horror movie recommendations for October continues in silly, grisly and unusual fashion.
What Horror Movie Should You Watch Tonight? By Team Unwinnable • October 4th, 2018 It’s October and we know that means you want to be watching horror movies! We’ve got suggestions!
No Accounting for Taste On Being Human. Or Not By Adam Boffa • October 3rd, 2018 Automata wonders whether humanity is as important as it thinks it is.
I Accidentally a Film Festival: Part Two By Orrin Grey • October 1st, 2018 Orrin’s accidental home film festival wraps up, with Erik the Conqueror, My Friend Dahmer and more.
Assassination Nation has Blood in its Teeth By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018 The moral of Assassination Nation is that high school boys are terrible and you should kill them.
FASCINATION Never Be Clean Again By Astrid Budgor • September 28th, 2018 “Oh, so society’s to blame …”
I Accidentally a Film Festival: Part One By Orrin Grey • September 28th, 2018 Orrin Grey embarks on a film festival…in his living room. Join him as he watches The Twilight People, The Ghoul and Bruce’s Deadly Fingers.
Backlog Culture is Not Canon By Gavin Craig • September 12th, 2018 Star Wars is a case study in how canon can grip a culture, and what happens when fandom turns toxic.
No Accounting for Taste Studio Ghibli and the Climate Crisis By Adam Boffa • September 10th, 2018 A pair of ‘90s Ghibli films reveal the depths of our environmental problem but refuse to give up hope.
Exploits Feature Unknown Influences By Noah Springer • September 4th, 2018 What happens when a fiction leaks out into the world and changes it?
The West End Games Star Wars RPG By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 3rd, 2018 Learn about the Star Wars RPG, Colt Express, Big Trouble in Little China board game and more in this episode of the Vintage RPG podcast.
Documentary Sunday The Rachel Divide By Megan Condis • August 31st, 2018 In the wake of current events, we might ask why Netflix thought that pulling Rachel Dolezal back into the spotlight was a good idea at all.
The Shape of the Devil By Carl Lewandowski • August 31st, 2018 Hereditary twists gendered expectations, using gender as a tool to contribute to its disorienting, unsettling atmosphere.
here’s 2300 words on twilight and new moon By Amanda Hudgins • August 27th, 2018 Twilight at its core, is barely functional as a romance, but deeply fascinating as a tragedy where two distinct cultures interact and implode around each other.
Documentary Sunday Won’t You Be My Neighbor? By Megan Condis • August 24th, 2018 How do we teach kids about the complicated modern topics that throw even grown-ups for a loop? This looks like a job for Mr. Rogers.
The New Godzilla Trailer is Awesome and Sublime By David Shimomura • August 21st, 2018 Together, “awe” and the “sublime” remind us of the feeling of being small before something greater than ourselves.
Fascination Damp and Rotting By Astrid Budgor • August 17th, 2018 Sweet Sweet Lonely Girl is emblematic of a certain species of horror movie; autumnal, elliptical, vaguely about lesbians in a troublingly reactionary way, and dreadfully slow
Who We Are By Jeremy Signor • August 16th, 2018 Embodying a role can allow us to step outside ourselves and examine what makes us tick.
