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Author: Orrin Grey

A screenshot from the trailer for It's a Wonderful Knife featuring Justin Long and his halloween spirit teeth

This Town Needs Me: It’s a Wonderful Knife (2023)

By Orrin Grey • December 20th, 2023

This is a film where the plot and performances are more stylized than the shooting and, as a result, is a disjointed, tonal mess.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A crop of the box cover for Runebound, with a dragon's wing behind the logo for the game

Rune Bound: Exploring the Realms of Terrinoth

By Orrin Grey • December 11th, 2023

Terrinoth lacks any attempt at gritty realism, reaching instead for the classic familiarity of a video game version of your standard high fantasy.

A screenshot from Godzilla Minus One with close up of the big chomper's teeth and maybe even the dangling thing at the back of the throat as he roars

A Scene That Defies Belief: Godzilla Minus One (2023)

By Orrin Grey • December 5th, 2023

As with Shin Godzilla, this is an attempt to return to Godzilla’s roots as a purely destructive force. There is no way in which this Godzilla is a “good guy,” even as roundaboutly as the one from the MonsterVerse films.

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We Need to Talk About the Warrens

By Orrin Grey • November 21st, 2023

There is plenty of evidence that the Warrens were hucksters who exploited vulnerable people for their own profit.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
Milton Bradley's Vampire Hunter, featuring a large glowing tower in the center of the game board.

What You See in the Dark: Night and Day in Vampire Hunter

By Orrin Grey • November 15th, 2023

Vampire Hunter is a fairly straightforward board game with one exception – you play it in the dark.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
Close up photo of the board game Warhammer Execution Force with an overarmored necro priest facing off against several assassins on a very confusing board

Stealth Mission: Exploring the Corners of Warhammer 40K in Execution Force

By Orrin Grey • November 6th, 2023

Execution Force is a relic of a specific point in GW’s release history – in this case, the year 2015.

Close up crop of the lil guy on the cover of the blu ray for Ghoulies, with his tiny bald head, sharp gummy teeth, little shirt and suspenders, as he clutches the rim of the toilet he's standing in

Little Demons: Ghoulies II (1987) from MVD Rewind

By Orrin Grey • October 4th, 2023

The yuppie gets his comeuppance by having his balls eaten by a monster.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
a screenshot of the box for The Muppet Show Board Game with Kermit the frog front and center in front of the logo for the show with the rest of the cast mugging behind him. Text at the bottom says It's a Game! Directed by Kermit the Frog.

It’s Time to Raise the Curtain on the The Muppet Show Game

By Orrin Grey • September 7th, 2023

The game itself is a relic of a time when board games were something very different than they are today.

Screenshot from the trailer for Night has A Thousand Eyes, featuring the main character in a suit walking back from an attic window looking over a city at night

The Stars Can’t Hurt You: Fighting the Future in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

By Orrin Grey • August 24th, 2023

Even if you’re pretty sure you know going in – it is difficult, after all, to not have been spoiled at least a little bit on a movie that is three-quarters of a century old – the unspooling of the film does a good job of keeping you on your toes,

Screenshot from the trailer for Swamp Thing, where a swamp is covered in dry ice fog as the titular Swamp Thing carries a scantily-clad Barbeau through the moist forest

A Plant for the 21st Century: Swamp Thing (1982) on 4K from MVD

By Orrin Grey • August 18th, 2023

Swamp Thing takes a lot more swings at being “crowd-pleasing” than anything Wes Craven had worked on in the past.

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