Reviews

Netflix’s horror series Midnight Mass begins with an act of immense cruelty. A drunk driver, Riley (Zach Gilford), crashes into another car. The young woman he hit is thrown through...

Ouija boards are fun to play with because they encourage a shared delusion. If I’m not moving the planchette, and you’re not moving it either, then it must be a...

Khora: Rise of an Empire made its debut this week at the Gen Con tabletop gaming convention and in select retail stores. I’ve had my hands on the game for...

Dungeons & Dragons is historically descended from wargaming, but that’s not where its fanbase exists today. The franchise’s new center of gravity lies in the performative space, and its best...

A cherry red Corvette Stingray cuts through a Los Angeles street race, when, with little warning and lots of noise, a hail of missiles pulverizes the highway, clouding the air...

A rotting corpse lies undiscovered in a derelict building in Isezaki Ijincho, Yokohama. Meanwhile, a police officer goes on trial for sexual harassment in Tokyo. Over the course of Lost...

This review of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria comes from the film’s screening at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Stay tuned for more information when the film arrives in U.S. release....

To some people, the world seems cloudier, grayer, and more fraught than it used to be. This anxiety about the state of humanity is at the heart of why prominent...

Eastward is not subtle about its influences: Chinese developer Pixpil has lovingly pulled inspiration from all sorts of media and combined it into a pixel art role-playing game that’s still,...

Of the many fantasies humanity has entertained, conquering time has been paramount, whether through time machines, freezing, or reversing. If time is the great consumer, then those that control time...