BlacKkKlansman doesn't let white women off the hook—and it shouldn't
Note: This article contains plot points of BlacKkKlansman.
All the Easter eggs from Castle Rock so far
Castle Rock is part of the recent wave of excellent Stephen King adaptations that includes last year’s cinematic takes…
Slow down for Okami, a game about a dog goddess who feeds squirrels for points
The first time I played Okami, I didn’t get it. It was a much-ballyhooed effort from a dream team of Japanese game…
Japan's own Lady Bird and a taut Korean thriller wrap up our coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival
The Fantasia Film Festival wraps up its 2018 edition in Montreal tonight, completing 21 days of the 22nd year of one of…
Octopath Traveler melts the JRPG down to its pure, comforting core
Underneath all the melodramatic cutscenes and ornamental belts, even today’s flashiest JRPGs are often built on a…
Anti-colonialist heroes ride into the sunset at the Fantasia Film Festival
While being in the room for the launch of a buzzy new movie is undeniably thrilling, one of the most exciting (and…
On Mission: Impossible, Edge Of Tomorrow, and the morbid star power of Tom Cruise
One of these days, Tom Cruise is going to seriously hurt himself. It’s kind of inevitable, isn’t it? Cruise, who just…
All the Stephen King Easter eggs we found in the Castle Rock credits
I had reservations about Castle Rock, Hulu’s second J.J. Abrams-produced stab at the Stephen King canon. (How much of …
Want to join me for this 6 a.m. dance party experie—HEY COME BACK HERE
It’s 5:47 a.m. and I’m surrounded by people wearing all white. To be fair, we were supposed to wear all white to this…
No Man’s Sky is finally discovering signs of life in its AI universe
Today Hello Games is releasing something called No Man’s Sky Next. It is not a sequel to the massively ambitious 2016…
Sam Elliott kills Hitler, and then Bigfoot, in our second dispatch from the Fantasia Film Festival
Montreal is a tough city to leave. As soon as you think you’re starting to figure out its geography—let alone the dense…
Stephen King isn’t made for TV—but he could be
On Wednesday, Hulu will premiere Castle Rock, the new series “based on characters and settings” by Stephen King. If…
My my, what the hell is up with the Mamma Mia! timeline?
This post discusses plot points from Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
30 years ago, Bionic Commando proved video game grappling hooks are awesome
Bionic Commando was a game that flew in the face of its own era. When it reached Nintendo’s Famicom on this day in…
Let us consider Toad, whatever the hell he is
We turn today to Toad. He is some sort of mushroom man? This is about as legit a description as exists in Super Mario’s …
The scam industry: How the hip-hop boom sets hopefuls up for failure
The venue’s security checked the guest list one more time. HG Locks wasn’t on it. It slowly began to sink in: No one…
Joe Dante, Keith David, and Jello Biafra kick off our coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival
Twenty-two years into its run, the Fantasia International Film Festival is the grande dame of North American genre film…
Ant-Man And The Wasp’s mid-credits stinger is the best possible use of Marvel's long-running tactic
Note: This article contains plot points of Ant-Man And The Wasp.
This is The Bad Place: Twin Peaks, Jodie Comer, and other Emmy snubs and surprises from 2018
It’s a watershed year for the Primetime Emmy Awards: For the first time since the early ’00s, HBO does not boast the…
Red Faction: Guerrilla embraced players for what we are: total assholes
Playing the recently released remastered—excuse me—“re-mars-tered” edition of Red Faction: Guerrilla hammers home just…
