‘Eternals’ Review: The Ride Never Ends

From the moment it was announced that celebrated independent filmmaker Chloé Zhao (now the Academy’s reigning Best Director) was attached to direct a Marvel movie, fans have known that they were in for a weird one. How would such a naturalistic, humanist cinematic voice blend with that of a computer-polished,…

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I Trained My Hair Like Sephiroth for 14 Days and Now I’m a Living Weapon

Final Fantasy VII Remake has been the game on everyone’s hit list recently, and for good reason. Everyone in it looks really fucking hot. Literally everyone. I don’t know what they did to Rufus Shinra, but talk about an utterly worrying glo-up. People say it’s been harder to find reasons to look one’s best with lockdown…

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Peacock Is Editing Racism Out of WWE Content. So What?

The WWE Network sunsets in the United States on April 4, as it becomes part of NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service. Launched in 2014 (after an initial conceptualization as a television network that never came to fruition), the WWE Network is one of the the promotion’s signature achievements, forever altering the…

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WRESTLING

Why Banjo-Tooie is a True Adventure

I am twenty-four years old. I have owned a Nintendo 64 for, I’m sure, just shy of my entire life, given that the console came out in 1996. I’ve played and completed Super Mario 64 half a dozen times, super smashed every brother, and know every track in Mario Kart…

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“Mother/Android” Review: The Apocalypse is a Real Downer

Earlier this year, I happened across Little Fish, an indie sci-fi romance that I now count as one of my favorite films of 2021. Little Fish follows a couple, deeply in love, struggling to maintain their relationship in the face of a slow-burning viral apocalypse. When I learned that Mattson…

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TV/FILM

Mirko Cro Cop’s Documentary: A Magical And Slightly Confusing Journey

Being on the internet isn’t always great. It is on the internet, after all, that we get complete strangers telling us that we actually don’t know anything about the things that we know about. The internet is where Steven Crowder lives. It is on the internet that you get to…

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SPORTS

Destiny 2 Exotics: Titan, Hunter, & Warlock Armor

Destiny 2 is all about hunting down the best armors and weapons to kit out your Guardian. If you’re going to play for sci-fi fantasy fashion, you need to hunt down some of the rarest gear. Most of the best and coolest-looking gear is of the Exotic variety. There are…

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GUIDES

How Metal Gear Eschewed Realism to Convey the Horror of Imperial Violence

The Department of Homeland Security was established November 25th, 2002. Immigration and Custom Enforcement was established March 1st, 2003. The War on Terror is harder to formally establish a starting time on — do you start at September 11th, 2001, as many people do, or do you fold the conflict…

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1979 Revolution: an Interview with Navid Khonsari, Part 1

Navid Khonsari put a lot of his family's history into 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, his studio's game about the Iranian Revolution. The result: an extremely personal game that draws heavily from real people's experiences.

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Formal: 76 Flies In the Face of Overwatch’s Hopeful Future

Until recently, Soldier: 76 wasn’t actually a soldier. Not like the ones we’d find in our world. He was another cartoonish character in the futuristic world of Overwatch. Released in 2016, Blizzard’s team-based shooter was pitched as the antithesis to the popular military shooters of the time. The official site…

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How videogames helped me recover from death

Sometimes, we need to blow up space aliens. Other times, we need to confront grief. Now we've got easy access to videogames that help us do both.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 2 “The Star Spangled Man” Review

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier began with a bold mission statement of probing into issues of race and nationalism within the framework of a grounded superhero drama. Marvel Studios has a habit of paying lip service to adult themes without diving into them in a substantial way, but with…

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