It’s impossible to quantify the influence that James Cameron’s Aliens had on the gaming industry. From inspiring enemies in everything from Ecco the Dolphin to Contra and introducing audiences to the concept of sci-fi pulse rifles, it’s amazing how one film almost single-handedly managed to define video game aesthetics for decades to come. Though we’ve […]
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Just a little over a year ago, Blumhouse Games published their first game, Fear the Spotlight, which I was a big fan of. Their latest publishing endeavor is SLEEP AWAKE, the debut game from EYES OUT, a studio founded by Cory Davis of Spec Ops: The Line and Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck. That’s […]
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Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution recaps the end of the anime’s second season and teases the start of season three with a visually stunning film that suffers from structure. “Just save as many people as you can, even if it’s only one.” Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen has experienced a meteoric rise that’s turned its exaggerated action and […]
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A brief meta exchange between characters praising the almighty sequel in a late scene signals the type of wry self-awareness returning director Roar Uthaug (The Wave, Cold Prey) and writer Espen Aukan employ in Troll 2. Their follow-up to the 2022 Netflix Kaiju film mostly leaves its MonsterVerse formula behind in favor of an Indiana […]
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Three years have passed since Stranger Things Season 4’s cliffhanger finale left Upside Down fissures in Hawkins, but time has largely remained unchanged for our heroes in Stranger Things 5, at least at first. The fifth and final season brings things full circle, picking up a year and a half later, exactly four years after […]
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From Counter-Strike to Cry of Fear, some of the most innovative gaming experiences out there have their origins in the video game modding scene. After all, these communities often serve as a training ground for passionate fans-turned-developers, with even beginners being encouraged to flex their creative programming muscles by remixing existing digital playgrounds into completely […]
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“Are all monsters a hoax, or is it possible that the monsters that haunt the 21st century hide in plain sight?” Found footage and mockumentary horror films remain wildly polarizing and they’re subgenres where only the most successful or maligned releases seem to get any attention. For some horror audiences, there’s just too much of […]
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Everything is a roguelike now. We’ve got poker roguelikes, slot machine roguelikes, even Breakout has been made into a roguelike, and it seems the possibilities for the framework are endless. Morsels, the debut game from Furcula, brings a bit more of a familiar take on the action roguelike, a la Binding of Isaac or Hades, […]
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Japanese filmmaker Kenichi Ugana’s extremist satire on the pursuit of perfection will make the audience wince, but left wanting more. “Because you like chairs.” There can be an incredible comfort in watching an expert simply work their magic in their trade. “Competency porn” is a real thing, and there’s something to be said about someone […]
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Nightmares of Nature continues to find the perfect balance between entertainment and education with an engaging look into a South American jungle’s predators and prey. “Nature is full of wonder and beauty, but for the creatures who live in the wild, it’s also full of monsters…” Nightmares of Nature’s first “Cabin in the Woods” season […]
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Expansion goes awry in prequel series It: Welcome to Derry. Set 27 years before the Losers Club first confronted the child-eating trans-dimensional entity, and 54 years before they’d return as adults to destroy it for good, not much has changed in Stephen King‘s fictional Maine town. To bypass the prequel’s narrative constraints, developed by Andy Muschietti […]
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The best thing about The Elixir is its determination to hold almost nothing back. The new Netflix original zombie film from Indonesian horror mainstay Kimo Stamboel (The Queen of Black Magic) is well aware that it’s playing in a well-trodden subgenre, and to its credit, it never tries to reinvent the wheel of zombie cinema. […]
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David Kittredge’s passionate deep dive into The Exorcist II: Heretic pulls back the curtain on the notorious sequel’s troubled production, poor reception, and surprising legacy. “Is this the movie that kills me?” There’s something inherently satisfying about a comeback story or when some fringe cult classic suddenly becomes a colossal hit, even if it takes […]
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Clashing personalities and human conflict derailed the survivors from within a fortified farmhouse while the undead attempted to claw down its doors in George A. Romero‘s seminal Night of the Living Dead. Filmmaker Tina Romero trades the rural setting for a Brooklyn warehouse party, and the ragtag strangers for a vibrant, winsome ensemble in her […]
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Chainsaw Man’s first movie sets new action shonen anime standards with a stunning spectacle of blood, guts, and heartbreak. “I’m going to start falling for this girl…” It’s become the new normal for ongoing anime series to tell some of their biggest stories as cinematic adaptations instead of devoting part of a standard season to […]
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