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.
Why Do I Like Lighthouses So Much? By Barrett Muth • May 19th, 2020 Robert Eggers and Virginia Woolf shine the way to an answer.
Exploits Feature Godzilla is the Perfect Disaster Film for the COVID-19 Crisis By Bryn Gelbart • May 1st, 2020 “If we announce this too rashly the public will panic,” he says, “Our political life, economy and foreign relations will be plunged into chaos.”
In the Business of Adaptation By Amanda Hudgins • April 13th, 2020 A faithfulness to a format that is no longer consistent with the product that you’re making is worshiping at the ground of a false idol.
Self-Insert RPF By Amanda Hudgins • April 13th, 2020 Bring Real Person Fanfiction onto The Graham Norton Show, cowards.
No Accounting for Taste Movies Could Be More Boring By Adam Boffa • April 9th, 2020 The Star Wars sequel trilogy is too exciting to be interesting.
True Crime for Beginners By Amanda Hudgins • March 23rd, 2020 I’ve got a reputation. Let me put it to work for you. There’s a lot to true crime, and if you’re truly interested there’s some good stuff out there. ACAB, let’s watch some true crime!
No Faith Without Blood: The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • March 20th, 2020 It’s barely a spoiler to say that this all ends, as it inevitably must, with a literally burning bed and a homicidally crazed Brendan Fraser, painted red and wearing a barbed wire shirt.
Exploits Feature The Male Gaze is What’s Wrong with CATS, Actually By Violet Adele Bloch • March 2nd, 2020 “Apparently, as he was making his latest film, Tom Hooper thought a lot about fucking these cats. But only the female ones.”
Dolittle Makes You Think About Rectal Surgery By Amanda Hudgins • February 24th, 2020 The most interesting thing about Dolittle is probably that I spent a half hour trying to find the right words to describe emptying a dragons colon of armor before settling on “transanal extraction.”
The Smell of the Rooms Terrifies Me – and Lures Me On: The House by the Cemetery on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • February 24th, 2020 If you don’t like horror movies, House by the Cemetery isn’t the flick that’s going to change your mind.
The Emancipation of Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad By Amanda Hudgins • February 17th, 2020 Birds of Prey is the equivalent of an exorcism of Suicide Squad, the bloated carcass of FYE excess that DC had pulled into a back alley to die.
A Review of the Three Descendants Movies That No One Asked For By Amanda Hudgins • February 10th, 2020 Maleficent’s daughter looks to camera and announces, through song of course, that she is “rotten to the core.”
The Tide Pulls at My Heart: Night Tide (1961) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • February 3rd, 2020 Dreamy, desolate and drunk on its particular place in both space and time, Night Tide is a film like no other.
Here Be Dragons: Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters (2005) By Orrin Grey • January 28th, 2020 Fans of people yelling, bad CGI, and characters repeating themselves – and one another – your proverbial ship has come in.
