Reviews

It’s been a big year for fans of anthropomorphic animals. Not only is the video gaming world abuzz with the latest update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but tabletop gaming...

In a myriad of ways, Netflix’s The Unforgivable, the slow-moving redemption film from director Nora Fingscheidt, resembles Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer, minus the noir elements. The film’s protagonist revisits a mistake...

When The Witcher arrived on Netflix in 2019, it was received by some as an early contender for the title of “next Game of Thrones.” If that translates to “expensive...

It’s hard to believe anyone, Amazon executives included, thought a six-episode final season was enough to wrap up The Expanse. The end of season 5 saw the whole universe thrown...

A couple of decades ago, the gaming section of bookstores featured, at most, some boxes of Far Side puzzles and a diminutive collection of neglected video game strategy guides. The...

From its title, Fights in Tight Spaces very kindly lets you know exactly what you’re getting into. At first, everything looks very simple. Agent 11, a black and white figure,...

It’s been more than 20 years since Master Chief — and Halo: Combat Evolved — debuted. In that time, the Halo series has become one of video games’ most iconic...

Pen15 makes me sweaty. Much of the show’s comedy relies on dramatic irony, which — especially against the backdrop of middle school, a time most of us would rather forget...

Root: A Game of Woodland Might and Right is a brilliant board game. Published in 2018 by Leder Games, it presents a cute and cheerful vision of a woodland realm...

In films like Marrowbone and 1917, George MacKay has steadily amassed a career built on solid physicality and the menace, fragility, braggadocio, and scorn he can summon from within it....