Reviews

My biggest beef with trading card games, a genre now in its fourth decade of existence, is just how hard it is to get ahold of the damned cards. The...

When Game of Thrones ended in May 2019, the hunt was well underway for a series that could match its blockbuster scale. HBO was already talking spinoffs with George R.R....

In Kung Fu Panda 4, Jack Black returns to the role of Po the Panda, the super-duper enthusiastic kung-fu superstar and leader of the Kung Fu Panda franchise. This is...

The Thaumaturge exists in an alternate 1905 Warsaw, where I can’t go anywhere without a couple of soldiers trying to mug me for my nice warm boots, and making matters...

It’s hard to know where to start in describing how bad Imaginary is. The new horror movie from Blumhouse and director Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2) starts with the simple but...

I’m not a poker guy, but I am definitely a Balatro guy now. Created by an anonymous developer who goes by the pen name LocalThunk, Balatro is a deck-building roguelite...

The Coen brothers’ filmography is tragically straight. Acclaimed for their stylistic breadth and wit, their films are rich and willing to play with gender roles in ways that welcome queer...

Having already played a preview build of Pacific Drive, I felt confident going into my playthrough for this review. I’d learned a lot about this ornery but captivating driving/survival/roguelite game...

The world wasn’t ready for Tenet when it was originally released in 2020. That’s both literally true — it was the middle of the pandemic — and spiritually true, because...

Before it set the role-playing world ablaze with Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios sent a considerably smaller, but still sizable, portion of video game role-players into a tizzy with its...