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A selection from the cover art for Unwinnable Monthly #158, featuring several gremlins from the movie Gremlins grinning at the viewer.

Unwinnable Monthly – December 2022

By David Shimomura • December 15th, 2022

Welcome to the Gremlins issue! But before you dig in, there are some rules that you’ve got to follow…

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.

Advanced Fighting Fantasy

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 12th, 2022

First a gamebook series, then a fully-fledged RPG!

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.

Down in the Dungeon

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 5th, 2022

Down, down, down.

Exploits Feature

My Least Favorite C-Word

By M. Shaw • December 1st, 2022

Every brush I’ve had with actually celebrating Christmas has been a complete horror show.

Self-Insert
The full cover art from the dust jacket of the American release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, featuring Harry, Ron and Hermione being carried to safety from a dungeon by Fawkes the phoenix.

Elevating Trash

By Amanda Hudgins • November 30th, 2022

If you, dear reader, are someone who loves Harry Potter, do yourself the service of rereading the series as an adult. Interrogate it. Be prepared to actually know what you’re talking about.

Exploits Feature

Elden Ring

By Connor Queen • November 30th, 2022

Love and monsters.

Cadabra Records

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • November 28th, 2022

Classic horror tales on vinyl!

Feature Story

What Creates Class In The Internet Age?

By Ciaran Doran • November 22nd, 2022

Worldwide internet penetration is only hovering at around 50%. That means that every other person worldwide has no independent chance to read this article.

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