Zot‘s Utopian Dream By Grace Benfell • September 14th, 2020 “This world is worth fighting for. It is not dead yet.”
I Played It, Like, Twice… Lost in the Dark: Finding My Way to Descent During the Plague Times By Orrin Grey • September 3rd, 2020 “In a fit of COVID-induced mania and an effort to scratch that at-home D&D itch, I picked up not just Descent but several of the expansions.”
Bloodlines Specter of Aesthetic Play By David Shimomura • September 2nd, 2020 Ghost of Tsushima is a love-sick letter to the tone and feel of pop culture samurai media.
Try Reading... Descending Into Yourself By Harry Rabinowitz • September 2nd, 2020 Iasmin Omar Ata has published a hard and honest debut novel tackling epilepsy, isolation and illness
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.
The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Remake Feels Good Enough By Blake Hester • August 21st, 2020 So it’s a push and pull so far with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2. When the game feels right, it feels right. And for the most part, that’s enough.
Open Up Shop: Finding a Killer Deal in Bargain Quest By Orrin Grey • August 20th, 2020 “Don’t be surprised if you get a little choked up when you can’t equip the young hero well enough for them to survive their run-in with the vampire queen.”
Midnight Sun is a Mistake By Amanda Hudgins • August 17th, 2020 Midnight Sun, the 2020 follow-up to the Twilight series, was a mistake.
Casting Deep Meteo No Home for Petals By Levi Rubeck • August 6th, 2020 “Given the trajectory we’re on, perhaps it’s too soon for 2020 comeback stories. And yet I’m charged by the germination of long-term plans of cosmic revival, hopefully to flower as soon as possible.”
Try Reading... The Movement Marches On By Harry Rabinowitz • August 6th, 2020 Now and then, the privileged and the powerful imply that the “right way” to protest is not to protest at all. John Lewis stands against that.
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.”
I Played It, Like, Twice… All Souls Bound Just Contrariwise: Yo Ho Ho and a Game of Rum & Bones By Orrin Grey • July 23rd, 2020 Raid the high sea and manage a ton of miniatures!
Try Reading... The Power of Perspective By Harry Rabinowitz • July 7th, 2020 The Nameless City is a story about power, privilege and history’s bias. It’s also a story of two kids doing a bunch of parkour.
Try Reading... The Road to Dawn By Harry Rabinowitz • June 12th, 2020 On a road trip and in Tillie Walden’s Are You Listening?, the “frontiers” are less about physical locations and more about us.
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.
Try Reading... Buck Destiny By Harry Rabinowitz • May 14th, 2020 In Norroway, is destiny something to fulfill or defy?
Mysterious Forum and 7 Rumors By Gingy Gibson • April 17th, 2020 Mysterious Forum and 7 Rumors is a simple story about what happens when modern storytelling collides with the supernatural.
Gingy's Corner Raging Loop By Gingy Gibson • March 27th, 2020 Raging Loop is a horror visual novel that makes you care more about the ‘how’ than ‘who’ behind its mystery.
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.
Try Reading... It’s Just a Game By Harry Rabinowitz • March 11th, 2020 DIE Volume 1 asks: if your game becomes real, can you still treat it like a game?
Gingy's Corner Magical Diary: Wolf Hall By Gingy Gibson • March 6th, 2020 Let’s go back to school! Again. And again. And again!
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.
Gingy's Corner Occult Crime Police By Gingy Gibson • February 21st, 2020 The truth is out there, and sometimes it’s absolutely insane. Good thing this perpetually exasperated detective is on the case.
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.
Try Reading... Middlewest and the Scars of Parental Abuse By Harry Rabinowitz • February 12th, 2020 When you peel back its fantasy veneer, Middlewest Book One is a story of parental abuse and the scars, both literal and figurative, it leaves.
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.
Gingy's Corner XOXO Blood Droplets By Gingy Gibson • January 24th, 2020 A follow-up that cannot quite escape the shadow its predecessor casts.
We Drilled Too Deep: Underwater (2020) By Orrin Grey • January 13th, 2020 If Underwater is cosmic horror, it’s from the point of view of someone who gets swept up in the devastation but never really knows the greater implications.
A Very Special Human Being: Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 Despite an elder James Cagney being miscast, latex masks and plenty of melodrama, the Lon Chaney biopic still has some of that old Hollywood magic.
Consumed in the Fire of His Own Making: Apprentice to Murder (1988) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 “Apprentice to Murder isn’t an undiscovered classic…but it’s better than its two-and-a-half-star average on Letterboxd would suggest.”
Because Bigger is Better: RoboCop (1987) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2019 “Our modern morass fits right in with the RoboCop…”
A Beautiful Pattern: Knives Out and What’s Wrong with America By Orrin Grey • November 25th, 2019 “The people who were hitting Rian Johnson with death threats on Twitter over making The Last Jedi “too political” are going to love this one, is what I’m saying.”
Lake of Voices By Gingy Gibson • November 22nd, 2019 Loss is inevitable. How do you get through it, then?
October Spookfest: Trick and Treat By Gingy Gibson • October 18th, 2019 A simple, though no less spooky, take on a night in the woods.
I Want to Tell You a Curious Story: The Prey (1984) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • October 15th, 2019 Despite ample opportunity, The Prey is a slasher that features neither Bigfoot nor Smokey Bear as the villain.
