Who’s Afraid of the Big Brand Wolf? By Sean Donnelly • November 9th, 2018 Intertextuality is a weapon.
Another Look The Snowman Gets the David Cage Treatment By Yussef Cole • November 8th, 2018 Paper-thin characterizations and women stripped of their power? Yep, sounds like a Cage game.
Documentary Sunday The Bleeding Edge By Megan Condis • November 6th, 2018 The FDA has failed for decades in its duty to oversee medical technologies, with women disproportionately falling victim.
Exploits Feature The Draw of “Live” By David Shimomura • November 1st, 2018 Despite access to all the content in the world via broadband streaming, live performance will never lose its allure.
Halloween 2018 is an Unwelcome Trip Down Memory Lane By David Shimomura • October 30th, 2018 We’re stuck with a sequel with a 40-year time gap where mostly the same thing happens, except one of the characters is old and paranoid.
Unwinnable Week 3 Horror Movies! By David Shimomura • October 20th, 2018 Is it still October? Then Unwinnable still has horror movie recs for y’all.
Documentary Sunday Atari: Game Over Featuring an Interview with Andrew Reinhard By Megan Condis • October 13th, 2018 Andrew Reinhard, author of Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, explains why its important for archaeologists to study games.
Unwinnable Week 2 Horror Movies! By Team Unwinnable • October 12th, 2018 Unwinnable’s weekly horror movie recommendations for October continues in silly, grisly and unusual fashion.
What Horror Movie Should You Watch Tonight? By Team Unwinnable • October 4th, 2018 It’s October and we know that means you want to be watching horror movies! We’ve got suggestions!
No Accounting for Taste On Being Human. Or Not By Adam Boffa • October 3rd, 2018 Automata wonders whether humanity is as important as it thinks it is.
I Accidentally a Film Festival: Part Two By Orrin Grey • October 1st, 2018 Orrin’s accidental home film festival wraps up, with Erik the Conqueror, My Friend Dahmer and more.
Assassination Nation has Blood in its Teeth By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018 The moral of Assassination Nation is that high school boys are terrible and you should kill them.
FASCINATION Never Be Clean Again By Astrid Budgor • September 28th, 2018 “Oh, so society’s to blame …”
I Accidentally a Film Festival: Part One By Orrin Grey • September 28th, 2018 Orrin Grey embarks on a film festival…in his living room. Join him as he watches The Twilight People, The Ghoul and Bruce’s Deadly Fingers.
Backlog Culture is Not Canon By Gavin Craig • September 12th, 2018 Star Wars is a case study in how canon can grip a culture, and what happens when fandom turns toxic.
No Accounting for Taste Studio Ghibli and the Climate Crisis By Adam Boffa • September 10th, 2018 A pair of ‘90s Ghibli films reveal the depths of our environmental problem but refuse to give up hope.
Exploits Feature Unknown Influences By Noah Springer • September 4th, 2018 What happens when a fiction leaks out into the world and changes it?
The West End Games Star Wars RPG By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • September 3rd, 2018 Learn about the Star Wars RPG, Colt Express, Big Trouble in Little China board game and more in this episode of the Vintage RPG podcast.
Documentary Sunday The Rachel Divide By Megan Condis • August 31st, 2018 In the wake of current events, we might ask why Netflix thought that pulling Rachel Dolezal back into the spotlight was a good idea at all.
The Shape of the Devil By Carl Lewandowski • August 31st, 2018 Hereditary twists gendered expectations, using gender as a tool to contribute to its disorienting, unsettling atmosphere.
here’s 2300 words on twilight and new moon By Amanda Hudgins • August 27th, 2018 Twilight at its core, is barely functional as a romance, but deeply fascinating as a tragedy where two distinct cultures interact and implode around each other.
Documentary Sunday Won’t You Be My Neighbor? By Megan Condis • August 24th, 2018 How do we teach kids about the complicated modern topics that throw even grown-ups for a loop? This looks like a job for Mr. Rogers.
The New Godzilla Trailer is Awesome and Sublime By David Shimomura • August 21st, 2018 Together, “awe” and the “sublime” remind us of the feeling of being small before something greater than ourselves.
Fascination Damp and Rotting By Astrid Budgor • August 17th, 2018 Sweet Sweet Lonely Girl is emblematic of a certain species of horror movie; autumnal, elliptical, vaguely about lesbians in a troublingly reactionary way, and dreadfully slow
Who We Are By Jeremy Signor • August 16th, 2018 Embodying a role can allow us to step outside ourselves and examine what makes us tick.
Tau is Mindbogglingly Bland By David Shimomura • August 14th, 2018 Tau is about a woman slowly teach an AI about music, art, and history as she tried to escape from the clutches of an emotionally vacant murderer.
No Accounting For Taste Justice League and the Absence of Politics By Adam Boffa • August 13th, 2018 What is Justice League trying to say? It really isn’t sure.
Procreation of the Wicked By Astrid Budgor • August 10th, 2018 “They rip him apart as he grins, nerve-endings aflame with the liquor of pain, finally accepting an eternity of obliterative bliss.”
idk take your kid to see eighth grade By Amanda Hudgins • August 6th, 2018 Eighth Grade made me want to crawl out of my skin in a way that I haven’t felt since The Babadook but instead of a screaming child, it was middle school awkwardness
Episode 3: Ghostbusters By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • August 5th, 2018 On tap for Episode 3: The Ghostbusters RPG, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Board Game and Goodman Games’ Into the Borderlands!
Exploits Feature Would the Real Dark Troopers Please Stand Up By Elijah Beahm • August 1st, 2018 Canon is a tricky thing, even for the people making it. Evidence: the new, streamlined Star Wars franchise’s continuity confusion.
No Accounting For Taste The (Sort Of, But Not Really) Radical Politics of Infinity War By Adam Boffa • July 16th, 2018 To see the radical message in Avengers: Infinity War, all we have to do is ignore everything about it.
If the Devil Is to Exist in This World, It Cannot Look Like a Devil By Orrin Grey • July 6th, 2018 Orrin Grey digs up Toho’s “Bloodthirsty Trilogy,” three Japanese vampire films that underscore the influence of Hammer films while showcasing the potential for Japan’s horror film future.
No Accounting for Taste A Terrible Relevance By Adam Boffa • June 15th, 2018 Ten years later, Body of Lies remains relevant. It shouldn’t.
Documentary Sunday The Problem With Apu By Megan Condis • June 12th, 2018 Megan Condis digs into the problem with The Simpsons’ reaction to The Problem With Apu.
Another Look Edge of Titanfall By Yussef Cole • May 17th, 2018 Titanfall 2, Edge of Tomorrow and the detachment of war as entertainment.
Squaring the Circle Pit By Levi Rubeck • May 16th, 2018 It’s shameful, because let’s be honest, moshing is the worst. It’s amateur rugby for shut-ins and ex-quarterbacks, almost totally disconnected from the music and a flying middle finger to the personal space of everyone else around.
Documentary Sunday Ugly Delicious By Megan Condis • May 15th, 2018 What makes pizza authentic? The documentary series Ugly Delicious wades into a long time rivalry between New York City and Naples.
The Burnt Offering False Memory By Stu Horvath • May 14th, 2018 Whats the French phrase for the feeling you get when you watch a classic movie you’re sure you’ve already seen only to find you never have? In English, it’s probably “disorienting embarrassment.”