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a screenshot from the trailer of Cuckoo with a woman in a blue jacket reflected in a window where someone in a red dress, a guy with a fancy watch and stubble, and a cowboy dad with a fist in the air look on

The Cuckoo’s Egg: Chimeras and Changelings in Cuckoo (2024) and Longlegs (2024)

By Orrin Grey • August 26th, 2024

Perhaps there’s something going on here; a thematic resonance, a moment in the zeitgeist, that will be teased out with the passage of time, subsequent viewings, and the work of other scholars.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A closeup of the board for Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed, with a purple layout, comic drawing of the control room, bats, and skulls with peace symbols for eyes for some resaon

The Monster Race: Simple Times with the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game

By Orrin Grey • August 12th, 2024

When it comes to comparing the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game to any of the other Scooby-Doo games we’ve covered here, there’s really no comparison at all.

A crop of the box for the double feature The Unseen and the Uninvited, with an art deco painting mostly in shades of green with a man in a suit holding an unconscious woman while in the background a face with wide eyes stares and a shadow lurks

Uninvited and Unseen: Two Chilly Classics of the 1940s on Blu-ray Together

By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2024

The success of The Uninvited hangs in the air around Lewis Allen’s 1945 follow-up, The Unseen.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A picture of all the bits of Starquest Arcadia Build a Bot expansion, with some space pirate like minis with guns and computers as well as a red board and smaller space ship boards to move the minis around on

Space is the Place: Starcadia Quest and the Mystery of Aesthetics

By Orrin Grey • July 16th, 2024

It may be unsurprising to learn that Starcadia Quest is pretty much the exact same game as Arcadia Quest but in spaaaaaaaaaace!

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An incomplete jigsaw puzzle featuring Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch.

This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health

By Orrin Grey • June 26th, 2024

As a weird kid myself, who grew up into a weird adult, it’s easy to see aspects of myself in both Lilo and Stitch – and I’m not alone.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A crop of the cover of the rulebook for Dreadfleet with a pirate with a mossy back and horned red pirate hat and golden chin

Blood and Plunder: Finding Lost Treasure (Though Maybe Not the Kind You Want) in Dreadfleet

By Orrin Grey • June 21st, 2024

Just as Dreadfleet is one of the last games released before Warhammer’s “Old World” became the “Mortal Realms” of Age of Sigmar, it is also one of the last gasps of an aesthetic style that had once defined the brand but was already on the way out.

A screenshot from one of the Whistler movies, a black and white shot of one man on the left trying to calm down an exasperated man on the right with a very stern look on his face

Rough Shadows: The Whistler Films on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • June 12th, 2024

There’s nothing here that’s a forgotten classic or destined to become a new favorite, but it’s nice to have them around, and it’s great, as always, that Indicator is doing the work to preserve some of these B-roll pictures.

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