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.
I Played It, Like, Twice... In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future There is Occasionally Very Small War: Fireteam and Warhammer Underworlds By Orrin Grey • December 17th, 2024 Fireteam brings many of the elements that make Underworlds tick to the grimdark 40k universe, to varying effect.
I Can’t Lie to You About Your Chances, but You Have My Sympathies: Alien: Romulus (2024) and the Plague of Legacy Sequels By Orrin Grey • December 12th, 2024 Those who are familiar with my film opinions will know that I don’t have a high regard for legacy sequels – to put it mildly.
I Want to Ask Your Forgiveness for What I Will Inflict on You: Red Rooms (2023) and the Abjection of Obsession By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2024 How much difference is there, after all, between watching a murder take place, and reconstructing that same murder through your favorite true crime series, book, or podcast?
I Played It, Like, Twice... Mad About Underworlds: In This Case, I Mean Mad as in Angry By Orrin Grey • November 12th, 2024 The Warhammer: Underworlds warbands have a level of personality that larger armies simply can’t, with each individual model given a name, special rules, and some character that help it to pop.
Maybe They Should Save Themselves: Maxxxine (2024) as Middle Finger By Orrin Grey • November 6th, 2024 I think that Maxxxine really believes that it has something to say in all those theme-heavy monologues
Personal Items Work Best: Oddity (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 31st, 2024 Oddity is an extremely slow burn, though it keeps elements of eeriness and dread close at hand.