Eyeing Elsewhere On Monsters and Ourselves By Phillip Russell • October 25th, 2022 Hell in the Hellraiser universe reflects back to others what they struggle with the most. It’s a fluid space that changes as our own sense of self does.
Eyeing Elsewhere Just Above the Noise By Phillip Russell • August 31st, 2022 The Bear is a show about the traumas that our previous workplaces, managers and family members imprint on us and the struggles we face not only in trying to overcome them, but to break the chain.
Eyeing Elsewhere Something in the Way By Phillip Russell • May 30th, 2022 In The Batman we’re presented with a caped crusader who is an extension of the police – he isn’t just a nocturnal animal prowling the streets for crime, he’s their nocturnal animal.
Eyeing Elsewhere Taking Up Space By Phillip Russell • March 28th, 2022 Yakuza: Like a Dragon impressively leans into the friction that exists when deploying political statements into its narrative.
Eyeing Elsewhere A Different Reality By Phillip Russell • January 26th, 2022 Unlike more standard reality television fare, School of Chocolate shows there is drama to be found in the struggles of learning new things.
Eyeing Elsewhere What Lies Beneath The Sand By Phillip Russell • November 30th, 2021 How deep into Dune is Hollywood willing to dig?
Eyeing Elsewhere It Takes a Village By Phillip Russell • September 24th, 2021 Evangelion has always been interested in cycles, in unpacking oneself through the looping of experience.
Eyeing Elsewhere Feeding The Chimera By Phillip Russell • June 11th, 2021 I’m stuck on this feeling I have while playing Biomutant where I want to like it. I want it to succeed, and I want it to figure out its own voice.
Eyeing Elsewhere What Happens Next? By Phillip Russell • April 6th, 2021 Phil’s thinking about the ending of things.
Eyeing Elsewhere Owning the Mask By Phillip Russell • February 8th, 2021 I want Black stories to feel whole, to feel uncompromising and to take risks.
Feature Excerpt Watching Myself Die By Phillip Russell • September 22nd, 2020 On Blackness in The Last of Us
