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Noah's Beat Box
A still from Poor Things shows main character Bella gazing out from a stone balcony at a cotton candy-colored sunset.

Going to Extremes

By Noah Springer • May 9th, 2024

Drawing lines between Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things and Nikos Nikolaidis’ cult favorite Singapore Sling. Did the latter influence the former?

Casting Deep Meteo
A birds-eye view of the PAX East 2024 show floor, featuring a zillion gaming-related booths and even more people milling around them.

PAX East 2024: Family Time

By Levi Rubeck • May 8th, 2024

We wandered the show floor and the convention center for two days, getting boba, shitty pizza and standing in plenty of lines. All in service of the greater question: What’s the youth take on gaming today?

Area of Effect
Two characters from Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley gaze up a lovely blue lighthouse.

A Wilderness of Thoughts Grown in Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

By Jay Castello • May 7th, 2024

The garden is not the park, although the tension of its civilizing influence is never resolved.

Rookie of the Year
A trio of Minecraft pandas looks up through a blocky bamboo grove.

Minecraft Menagerie

By Matt Marrone • May 3rd, 2024

So . . . how many pandas does it take to crash Minecraft?

Mind Palaces
Wiktor Szulski, the protagonist of The Thaumaturge, stands moodily holding an open tome while a terrifying creature looms behind him.

Empathetic Magic

By Maddi Chilton • May 2nd, 2024

Wiktor’s entire mode of interaction with the world is one of applied empathy, concentrated and made into magic through the indefinite occultisms of thaumaturgy.

This Mortal Coyle
The Lyktgubbe from Bramble: The Mountain King, holding a glowing lantern, stoops to talk to a small figure in a dense forest awash with flowers.

The Lyktgubbe from Bramble: The Mountain King

By Deirdre Coyle • April 30th, 2024

My adult brain feels desperate to chase after lights in the forest, lights I haven’t seen in some time. As a child, I knew better.

Run It Back
A still from Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives shows several red-eyed gorillas sitting in a misty forest, staring straight at the viewer.

2011

By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 26th, 2024

Tayo heads back to 2011, taking a look at two films which show us how the world beyond etches itself onto our reality.

Musings

The Everlasting Allure of the Shitty City

By Blake Hester • April 25th, 2024

I feel like I’ve never truly cared about where I live, and as such, places have never felt truly comfortable. But I do care about Astoria, about New York.

Noise Complaint
An extremely glitched closeup of the knot of a man's polka-dotted tie, an image with the air corrupted spy cam footage.

My Google Home is Cursed: A Cosmic Horror Story

By Ben Sailer • April 24th, 2024

When Ben’s smart speaker refuses to play music from specific artists, he begins to believe it’s cursed. Could his delusions of demonic possession be true?

Funeral Rites
A black-and-white ink drawing of a badass-looking angel holding a wicked cool sword.

The Tower, The Fool, The Meatgrinder

By Noah Springer • April 23rd, 2024

“His Majesty the Worm is very focused on megadungeon-crawling, and I wanted players to have this sense that surviving the dangers means something.”

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