Reviews

This review of The Power of the Dog comes from the film’s screening at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Stay tuned for more information when the film releases in...

The WarioWare series has spent years asking players to endure gauntlets of the same microgames over and over. WarioWare: Get It Together! on Nintendo Switch asks something similar, but with...

It’s true in comedy as well as catastrophe: Timing is everything. In 2002, writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra launched a thought experiment in the form of the...

Cinderella by way of TikTok has arrived, with a new, non-Disney musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale on Amazon Prime Video. But this anachronistic re-imagining of the story doesn’t...

If mimicry is flattery, then Ridley Scott and Denis Villeneuve should be honored by Zone 414, an indie science fiction movie that takes so much from Blade Runner and Blade...

Games Workshop’s latest board game was announced over the weekend with little fanfare, but it’s actually a tremendous value. Warhammer 40,000: Fireteam only costs $49.99, but it packs much of...

A recent Dead Space panel came with a revelation: protagonist Isaac Clarke, who was speechless in the original game, would now be voice acted for the remake. It’s a relatively...

When the initial teaser for Netflix’s queer animated spy comedy Q-Force hit YouTube, the outrage was immediate and overwhelming. One commenter called the trailer “a 55-second slur.” It’s easy to...

Over four years after being unveiled as the RetroBlox, being renamed just a few months later, shifting from FPGA technology to software emulation a year later, and then opening for...

There’s a whole subgenre of inspired-by-real-life legal thrillers that emphasize the ecological horrors of life under capitalism. Erin Brockovich, Michael Clayton, Dark Waters — they draw a clear line between...