WASTELAND 3
Joonatan Itkonen (Wasteland 3 is out now for PC, PS4, Xbox One, Linux, and Mac. Distributor provided review copy.) Arriving six years after a long development and rocky journey through the Kickstarter…
August 2020
KILL IT WITH FIRE
(KILL IT WITH FIRE is available now for PC. Distributor provided review copy.) Spiders are the natural mortal enemies of mankind. Future historians will look back on the detritus of…
MORTAL SHELL
(Distributor provided review copy. MORTAL SHELL is out on the EPIC Game Store, PS4, Xbox One and on Steam in 2021.) To say that MORTAL SHELL is inspired by DARK…
TENET
TENET is many things. Most notably, it’s probably the most straightforward film that Christopher Nolan has made since INSOMNIA. A visual treat, utilizing state of the art technology with classic…
LADY TIME
My grandmother used to read the obituaries in the paper. During our visits, I asked why she and my parents read something so sad. My dad’s response was always the…
FIRST LOOK: MARVEL'S AVENGERS
MARVEL’S AVENGERS is just around the corner, and I was lucky enough to be invited to play the beta build of the game in advance. Over the course of a…
FAST & FURIOUS CROSSROADS
Distributor provided review copy. CROSSROADS is out now on PC, PS4, and Xbox. The first mission in FAST & FURIOUS CROSSROADS promises more than the game can deliver. Letty and…
AN AMERICAN PICKLE
AMERICAN PICKLE, directed by Brandon Trost from a screenplay and short story by Simon Rich, is surprisingly not what it says on the tin. On the surface, you’d expect another…
NIGHT VISIONS 2020: THE RISE OF THE SYNTHS
There’s a lot of love, longing, and loathing in THE RISE OF THE SYNTHS, and like midi-keyboards and the 80s, they all seem to go inseparably hand in hand. Beginning…
NIGHT VISIONS 2020: LUZ: THE FLOWER OF EVIL
This film terrified me in ways I didn’t expect. It’s a folktale, a horror story, a cautionary fable, and a biblical parable rolled into one. There’s very little gore or…