REVIEWS
Dylan Roth May 12, 2022. 8 minute read
Strange New Worlds Proves That Classic 90s Star Trek Still Works
In 2017, when Star Trek: Discovery first launched, Star Trek’s fan community split nearly in half over the new show’s vastly different approach to the franchise. It was practically a rehearsal for what would happen to Star Wars fandom when The Last Jedi hit theaters a few months later, with…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin May 11, 2022. 2 minute read
‘The Northman’ Review: Go North, Young Man
Men howl and stamp around a roaring fire, dragging animal cries up from deep within their bellies. A son and his father snarl and snap at one another on all fours in a secret burrow deep under the earth, then lap hallucinogenic water from bowls laid out by a masked…
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Dylan Roth May 9, 2022. 8 minute read
‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Cool, I Guess
For the past few decades, major label superhero comics have made an annual tradition of the Big Summer Crossover Event. This usually takes the form of a core miniseries wherein you’ll find all the important plot beats and shocking reveals (this year it’s Dark Crisis at DC, Avengers vs. X-Men…
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merritt k May 5, 2022. 4 minute read
Wick & Skull Candles Review: Better Than Cursing the Darkness
Video games are a multi-sensory experience — visual, auditory, and tactile. But despite the efforts of our greatest minds, no way has yet been devised to smell a video game. Maybe that’s for the best, but for those who want to get as close as possible, there are gaming-based scented candles…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife May 3, 2022. 4 minute read
‘Bubble’ Review: No, the Netflix Anime, Not the Netflix Comedy
Netflix’s anime movie Bubble (not to be mistaken for The Bubble, Netflix’s live-action comedy released 28 days prior) is a classical sort of story that deals, thematically, with something we’ve been asking in stories since humans first began to tell each other stories. We’ve levied this existential query upon animals, objects,…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife Apr 27, 2022. 7 minute read
‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ Review: Nic Cage Manages His Brand
The following review contains spoilers for, uh, the 1994 film Guarding Tess. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent has the most bite at the beginning, when it’s establishing the woes of a fictionalized Nicolas Cage. During a lunch meeting with a director (David Gordon Green, playing himself) to discuss a…
READ MORE >Steven Nguyen Scaife Apr 13, 2022. 6 minute read
‘RRR’ Review: It Doesn’t Stand for ‘Rules Rules Rules’ But It Should
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Sean Aitchison Apr 7, 2022. 5 minute read
‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ Review: Bigger, Better, More Chili Dogs
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Dylan Roth Apr 7, 2022. 8 minute read
‘Ambulance’ Review: If Less is More, Just Think How Much More More Would Be
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Steven Nguyen Scaife Apr 6, 2022. 6 minute read
NORCO is an Old-School Adventure in a Grimy, Vivid World
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