A Ghost Story isn’t great it’s just slow By Amanda Hudgins • August 8th, 2017 A Ghost Story is the kind of intellectual garbage a friend takes you to and insists it’s capital I Important.
Documentary Sunday Weiner By Megan Condis • August 2nd, 2017 “Like Huma, the film encourages us to step back and look at politicians like these with ‘a mixture of contempt and sadness.'”
The Burnt Offering The Perils of Realness By Stu Horvath • July 28th, 2017 Forget all that other trash. This is the real deal.
Fascination On Short Night of Glass Dolls By Astrid Budgor • July 28th, 2017 “All our youth must eventually be sacrificed.”
Fascination On The Black Belly of the Tarantula By Astrid Budgor • July 24th, 2017 “There was a nude woman … someone had killed her.”
War for the Planet of the Apes is a Joyless Pile of References By Amanda Hudgins • July 18th, 2017 A small blonde girl runs with a flashlight down a long tunnel, opposite a wall that reads “This Way Out of Hell” til she reaches a fork, where “Ape-Ocalypse Now” is spray painted in thick white block letters.
The Architecture of a Generic Star Wars Planet By David Shimomura • July 17th, 2017 What makes a Star Wars building feel like a Star Wars building?
Fascination On The Fifth Cord By Astrid Budgor • July 14th, 2017 “Ever since you’ve been playing detective you just can’t get anything right!”
Fascination On The Bird With the Crystal Plumage By Astrid Budgor • July 10th, 2017 Unwinnable has an ongoing column about giallo? Unwinnable has an ongoing column about giallo!
The Book of Henry is Not So Bad It’s Good By Amanda Hudgins • June 26th, 2017 The Book of Henry is a baffling movie. It’s bizarrely bad, but there’s been some issues with coverage where people are implying that it has transcended to being a good-bad movie.
The Burnt Offering Unpopular Opinions By Stu Horvath • June 23rd, 2017 All my unpopular opinions, gathered in one convenient place.
The Mummy is a Garbage Movie By Amanda Hudgins • June 19th, 2017 The thirstiest of women doesn’t come out of a 5000 year dry spell and jump the actual first man she sees.
Neon Maniacs is the Dreamiest of Slashers By Amanda Hudgins • June 5th, 2017 Despite all of this it’s criminally underdeveloped and frankly, a must see. So few 80’s slashers manage to be any good, and this one somehow stumbles into genius simply by being unfinished.
Documentary Sunday At All Costs By Megan Condis • May 26th, 2017 In amateur youth sports, there’s more at stake than how you play the game.
Alien: Covenant : Keep it Mysterious, Stupid By David Shimomura • May 22nd, 2017 Part of the terror that powers the xenomorphs is their mystery. When we first find the eggs, we don’t know what they are. Then we meet the face huggers and they’re mysterious too
Alien: Covenant is an Uneven, if Good, Haunted House By Amanda Hudgins • May 22nd, 2017 Designed for an audience literate in the world of Alien, there’s few moments in Covenant where you are left unaware of the impending doom of the crew. Every new reveal is just a reminder that what you’re watching is an Alien movie.
The Lost City of Z is Just Another White Explorer Story By Amanda Hudgins • May 15th, 2017 “The English go native very easily…there is no disgrace in it,” English explorer Percy Fawcett once wrote.
Rookie of the Year Phil Connors Sees His Shadow By Matt Marrone • May 5th, 2017 Matt goes to see the very first performance of Groundhog Day the Musical, which is a thing that exists. Hijinx ensue.
Documentary Sunday Tickled By Megan Condis • May 3rd, 2017 Competitive Endurance Tickling is a thing, just not the thing you think it is.
Casting JonBenet is a Vacuous Portrait of an American Tragedy By Amanda Hudgins • May 1st, 2017 Is Casting JonBenet experimental or just abusive to its performers and its subject matter?
The Burnt Offering When the Void Looks Back By Stu Horvath • April 21st, 2017 If the cosmic gods of horror are utterly indifferent to mankind, why do human cultists worship them?
Fate of the Furious Review: You Already Know if You’re Going to See Fate of the Furious By Amanda Hudgins • April 20th, 2017 There is a new Fast and the Furious movie out in theaters. Unwinnable is here to help you make sense of the absurdity.
No Accounting For Taste: Appetite for Destruction By Adam Boffa • April 13th, 2017 Hitler’s back, and he’s a social media darling.
The Fast and the Furious is the Best Super Hero Franchise By Sam Desatoff • April 13th, 2017 This series has come to embody everything I love about the super hero genre, and gives anything Marvel or DC is putting out a serious run for its money.
Rookie of the Year Hack to the Future By Matt Marrone • April 11th, 2017 There are secrets to be unearthed in Back to the Future, Part II.
Just Who is Tej Parker? By Amanda Hudgins • April 10th, 2017 In many ways the saga of Tej Parker is one so clearly shown in the way that the Furious franchise morphed over the course of seven films.
Will New Mutants Be A New Era For X-Teams? By Michael Edwards • April 7th, 2017 The X-Men team movies have lost their way in a mire of chronology and plot. New Mutants may be the X-Team movie that finally rights the course of the franchise.
Documentary Sunday Chicken People By Megan Condis • April 6th, 2017 Some people really love their chickens.
The Thrill of Hopelessness By Chris Cesarano • March 31st, 2017 Rogue One allowed us to revel in the oppressive power of the Empire in a way the original films never had. I wish Halo: ODST had done the same.
In Pato Box, Revenge Is a Dish Served With a Flurry Of Punches By Khee Hoon Chan • March 28th, 2017 “Full of nuance and quiet unease, Pato Box warrants your interest, subverting the fighting genre by sprinkling in elements of crime fiction and drama.”
There’s a New Power Rangers Movie and It’s Fine I Guess By Amanda Hudgins • March 27th, 2017 “Power Rangers is a cartoon rendered in the dull shades of grey and brown that have come to represent the modern blockbuster.”
My Three Year Quest to Suffer Through L.A. Noire By Matthew Byrd • March 23rd, 2017 What makes L.A. Noire so frustrating is that it seems to resent the things that make it great and love the things that it simply can not do.
Peter Jackson’s King Kong By Amanda Hudgins • March 13th, 2017 If you can get past that extended timeline, you still have to put up with a plot that drags along in a way that would make glaciers envious.
A Disappointment of Dads: Logan is Just Alright By Amanda Hudgins • March 6th, 2017 “We are supposed to give Logan credit because it tried, because it’s better than its peers. But trying does not mean you succeed.”
Self Insert Who is Clan Techie? By Amanda Hudgins • February 23rd, 2017 Fan ficton: where Judge Dredd meets Star Wars.
Documentary Sunday Welcome to Leith By Megan Condis • February 22nd, 2017 What do you do when Nazis come to take over your town?
The Burnt Offering On Preconceived Notions By Stu Horvath • February 21st, 2017 How do you create criteria to find more surprises that defy your criteria?
The Three John Wickiest Games By David Shimomura • February 13th, 2017 David Shimomura recreates that John Wick feeling in some popular shooters.
John Wick 2 is a Bloated Neon Carcass of a Movie By Amanda Hudgins • February 13th, 2017 “Watching John Wick: Chapter 2 felt less like watching a movie and more like watching a particularly brutal playthrough of Hitman.”