Call of Duty: Black Ops II and the Illusion of Choice
Paragon or Renegade? Deal or Payback? Doug or Carley? Video games like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead...
The ramblings of a wannabe cineaste. Join me as I dissect the art of storytelling in films, comics, TV shows, and video games.
Paragon or Renegade? Deal or Payback? Doug or Carley? Video games like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead...
The other day, I finished reading Usagi Yojimbo vol. 21: The Mother of Mountains. As always, Stan Sakai crafts his tale with superb...
Last night, I had a dream. A dream in which I slipped into a dark, quiet theater to watch Rian Johnson’s Looper for the third time. But...
Borden: He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing...
One of the reasons I love Scorsese is that his films so gracefully express his faith without ever preaching at the viewer. This is what...
[The following essay contains many spoilers. If you haven't seen The Haunting of Hill House, Drag Me to Hell, A Quiet Place, and/or...
I won’t be writing one of my usual reviews for Avengers: Infinity War. I have two big reasons for this: I am incredibly biased when it...
Last night, I watched the Joss Whedon-scripted Alien: Resurrection for the first time in a long time (thanks, SyFy), and I realized...
“What happens when a man who hates killing finds himself in a situation that demands lethal force—indeed, in which killing becomes a...
Occasionally, I like the memory of a movie better than the movie itself. The first twenty to thirty minutes of Kaneto Shindo’s The Naked...
“Bruce. Why do we fall down?” Bruce Wayne spends the majority of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Saga flat on his back. After his...
As is the case with any work of art (popular or otherwise), the latest episode of the Star Wars saga rewards subsequent viewings....
The oppressive sun beats down on the shifting sand dunes and salt-caked valleys of planet Jakku. Our heroine, Rey, her face obscured by...
How’d I miss the news that these beauties had dropped? I stumbled across them while browsing the shelves at Midtown Comics to kill time...
Earlier today, IGN debuted a teaser poster for the upcoming theatrical film based on the Slender Man mythos. And honestly, judging it on...
So let me tell you about my day so far. Before I went to bed last night (by which I mean around 1:30 AM), I perused the MoviePass app to...
As I type this, it is sixteen degrees Fahrenheit outside (an improvement over the past few days, but a long way from the warm weather I...
One song can save the world. At least, that’s the thesis statement of Yoshihiro Nakamura’s Fish Story, a film in which an obscure punk...
“All these years, I thought you were Wendigo. But you’re just another white man.” That single line of dialogue, spoken by Johnny Depp’s...
Last night, Jean Dujardin took home the Best Actor Oscar for his work as George Valentin in The Artist—an almost entirely silent role....