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It’s Little, and Broken, but Still Good: Lilo & Stitch and the Human Touch

By Orrin Grey • April 24th, 2025

Even imitation becomes colored by the gestalt that is ourselves, so that no two humans will ever imitate in quite the same way.

I Played It, Like, Twice...

Crop of the box art for Dungeon Scrawlers Heroes of Undermountain with cute cartoon drawings of an orc, an elf, and a tiefling wielding markers

Draw!: Reaching the End of the Line in Dungeon Scrawlers

By Orrin Grey • April 14th, 2025

Dungeon Scrawlers has much more in common with the placemat at a fast food restaurant than with a game of Dungeons & Dragons.

A screenshot from the movie Trick or Treat featuring a closeup of the demonic metal singer's face behind a microphone but staring darkly at the viewer

Rock’s Chosen Warriors Will Rule the Apocalypse: Trick or Treat (1986) on 4K

By Orrin Grey • April 3rd, 2025

Rumor has it that both Gene Simmons and Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. were offered the role of Sammi Curr.

Funeral Rites

A close-up on the head of a vulture-like bird creature from The Molt, light in bright yellows and oranges as if by flame and staring out with soulless black eyes.

Notes Passed Between Me and Morgan During Algebra Class, After Discovering The Molt (If The Molt Had Been Published in 1995, When We Were in Algebra Class)

By Orrin Grey • March 28th, 2025

You think you, me, and Josh will be enough, or do we need to find somebody else? Brian, maybe?

I Played It, Like, Twice...

A photo of the halloween version of Boop called BOOooop with an orange bed with pumpkins and spooky stuff as a board and meepeles as white cats with jack o lanterns, black cats in which hats, and ghostly cats as well

Herding Cats: Thinky Thoughts and Scaredy Cats in BOOoop

By Orrin Grey • March 14th, 2025

Boop!

I Played It, Like, Twice...

A picture of many of the components for King of Tokyo: Duel, with cards featuring ice aliens, mecha kaiju breathing fire, a city of flashing lights, and dice and tokens

There Can Be Only Two: Fame and Destruction Come in Pairs in King of Tokyo: Duel

By Orrin Grey • February 14th, 2025

Where King of Tokyo is, in essence, a game of king of the hill, Duel is more like tug of war.

A screenshot from the trailer for The Cell featuring Jennifer Lopez in heavy eyeliner and a killer red lip and a huge red hood and a single tear falling down her cheek

A Very Twisted Kingdom: The Cell (2000) Twenty-Five Years Later

By Orrin Grey • February 3rd, 2025

Is there anything under all the artistic lifting and stylistic indulgences?

I Played It, Like, Twice...

The box art for Tidal Blades Heroes of the Reef cropped in on the title though we can still see a rich blue sky, green specked islands and houses and trees, the back of a hero with a sword and an elder in a straw had speaking to the hero

Heroes of the Reef: The Art and World of Tidal Blades

By Orrin Grey • January 29th, 2025

To prove your mettle, you must compete in a tournament.

Funeral Rites

To: Exalted Funeral; RE: A Stiff Letter Regarding Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme

By Orrin Grey • January 29th, 2025

It has come to our attention that certain parties have made unfounded and frankly absurd claims that, during our testing of Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, members of our organization were observed to chuckle, titter, guffaw or even laugh aloud.

A crop of the box art for Demolition Man with Stallone on the left and Snipes on the right staring lovingly into each others eyes

A Blast from the Past: Demolition Man (1993), Political Correctness, and Predicting the Future

By Orrin Grey • January 6th, 2025

As a satire, it is anodyne. As an action movie, largely inert. As science fiction, nonsensical.

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