(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 SOULS would be an understatement. That’s usually hyperbole, and most Souls-Like games bear only a passing semblance to the
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★★★ | Backwards motion
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★★★★★ | Memento mori
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 long weekend, I tried out some of the main campaign, strike missions, and explored the world with a number
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 Dom, the power couple of the franchise, are chasing an informant down the Greek archipelago. Only he’s driving in
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 Seth Rogen slapstick fare about men approaching their 40s with all the grace of a cow in a shopping
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 as a Kickstarter crowdfunded documentary, RISE peeks behind the curtain of the surprisingly (and oddly) secretive world of Synthwave
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 bloodshed, and yet every minute of it feels like air escaping from the room. Nestled deep in
Greenland is what happens when the most sheltered people imaginable write a disaster film. It’s a one-percenter survival fantasy, released into a global pandemic where the white upper class is outraged that they have to make minor adjustments to their lavish lifestyles. It would be hilarious if it weren’
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★★★★★ | Damn kids
Justin McConnell’s film is highly personal, which means this review must be as well. On a purely objective level there’s very little to say about a personal portrait like this. It’s a well shot, expertly paced documentary told with a level of confidence that only a good
Potential, according to the Irish comedian Dylan Moran, is like your bank balance: There’s always less than you think there is. Which doesn’t mean that you’re necessarily bankrupt, only that it’s never going to live up to what you’ve built up in your mind over
