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A still from the movie 5 Shaolin Masters showing a bare chested man foisting off a man in a martial arts pose.

Good Kung Fu Part One: Shawscope Volume One from Arrow Video

By Orrin Grey • March 2nd, 2022

Monsters are better than kung fu, kung fu is a whole lot better than nothing.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
figures from the game Space Hulk, blue and red, moving across a tabletop.

They’re Coming Out of the Goddamn Walls: Reliving a Moment with Space Hulk

By Orrin Grey • February 28th, 2022

It is difficult, for me at least, to separate the game itself from that dream, solidified by glossy magazine photos of massive Space Hulk boards set up.

Kim Basinger in a white shift with her hair blown back sexily

Don’t Have to Be Cool to Rule My World: My Stepmother is an Alien (1988) on Blu

By Orrin Grey • February 24th, 2022

My Stepmother is an Alien seems like the kind of movie I would have seen as a kid.

Beware of Falling Blocks: The Many Attempts to Translate Tetris to the Tabletop

By Orrin Grey • February 10th, 2022

Tetris…board games?

Exploits Feature

What We Never Saw

By Orrin Grey • January 31st, 2022

Where the Saw franchise didn’t go, but maybe should have.

A woman in a yellow dress holding a red rose.

A Dangerous Dream: Revisiting Mill of the Stone Women (1960) on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2021

“Trouble began with a woman…”

I Played It, Like, Twice...
The board game Marvel United showing a chibi Captain America.

Heroic Action: Defeating Evil with a Little Help from Your Friends in Marvel United

By Orrin Grey • December 16th, 2021

The feeling of teamwork is what really makes Marvel United special.

I Played It Like Twice...
A series of cards from the deck building game Ascension laid out on a deck mat.

For Honor and Small Plastic Rocks: Ascension’s Place in the Pantheon of Deck-Building Games

By Orrin Grey • November 18th, 2021

With so many deck-building games on the market, the aesthetic is going to be a big part of what draws a player to one over another.

A Japanese woman with her head in her hands and two miscolored eyes sitting at a table in front of a wall of sculptural eyes.

A Dark, Dank Death: Blind Beast (1969) on Blu-ray at Last

By Orrin Grey • October 28th, 2021

Blind Beast is a film that I had been meaning to watch for decades, ever since I worked in a video store.

Feature Excerpt
A mummy reaches for a man lying in bed.

A World Beyond: The Inadvertent Sci-Fi of Universal’s Original Mummy Sequels

By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2021

If you think about it, mummies are the original time travelers.

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