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A shot of two mini figures from Warhammer: Lost Relics, a robed warrior brandishing a lamp and a hammer-wielding cleric prepaing to strike, both standing on a sample of the various ground textures available to dungeon crawl through

Unexpected Joys in Small Packages in Warhammer Quest: Lost Relics

By Orrin Grey • January 23rd, 2023

Lost Relics feels a bit more like a game of chess (albeit played against the board) than a standard dungeon crawl.

A still from the trailer of Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, where the three young adults are dressed in their 70s weirdo finest, in front of some wood paneled walls, caressing a corpse and laughing at their hijinks

It’s a Boneyard: Revisiting Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972) on 4K

By Orrin Grey • January 19th, 2023

Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things is a fairly accurate portrait of what macabre weirdos like us got up to – or imagined ourselves getting up to – in the days before we had the internet to distract us.

screenshot from Nightmare at noon, with four characters hiding out in a starkly lit police office. A giant framed collection of patched leans against the wall, while the officers lean on various bits of furniture and look forlorn

Meat and Potatoes Country: Nightmare at Noon (1988) on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2022

To an enormous extent, your enjoyment of (and even tolerance for) Nightmare at Noon will rely largely on how much affection you have for these actors, since they’re the beating heart of the film.

Title card for Silent Running, with a beaming sun visible just over the top of a spiked geodesic dome floating through space

Everyone Has a Job: The Future of Silent Running (1972)

By Orrin Grey • December 13th, 2022

Anyone who complains that modern movies are too didactic probably shouldn’t watch Silent Running, which puts all its theses into the mouth of Bruce Dern’s space-bound ecologist.

A crop of the cover for No Escape, featuring Vincent's brother looking concerned, a gangster staring down the scope of a rifle launcher, and the reasonable Ghostbuster with a very fierce expression on his face

Not in the World: The Unlikely Precognition of No Escape (1994)

By Orrin Grey • December 8th, 2022

In fact, to the extent that No Escape has anything more novel to say than “prisons are bad” – which they are, and it’s great when movies say so, but like “war is hell” it may be true but it’s also a bit of a cliché in pictures like this – it’s probably something to do with its many meditations on guilt, and what guilt should cost us.

I Played It, Like, Twice...

The covers for Bardsung and Myth placed next to each other. Bardsung has a cloaked character with horns, or maybe a jester hat, grinning and holding a lute. Myth has an elfin warrior with a bow standing against a horde of point-eared orcs while magical fire flies in the background

Versus Mode: Myth x Bardsung

By Orrin Grey • November 30th, 2022

Both Bardsung and Myth are dungeon-crawl games at the high end of the complexity scale, but that’s where the surface similarities end.

I Played It, Like, Twice...

A close of up the box art of Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape, with a tentacled demon on the left wielding a spear in front of three heroes posing in front of a glowing door

2 Massive 2 Darkness: When Your Darkness is Maybe a Little Too Big

By Orrin Grey • November 2nd, 2022

As much as I love a good dungeon crawl game, much of the time they are too big for me.

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