Reviews

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, workplace sitcoms leapt into our ambiguous, strange new normal with a slew of quarantine specials — experimental one-off episodes that mostly made easy...

“You wield the blade that must never be drawn.” This is the first line in playbook for The Veteran, one of 15 classes in the highly-anticipated new tabletop RPG, Wanderhome....

Everything old is eventually new again, and the tiresome science fiction drama Voyagers offers nothing more than that cliché. Filmmaker Neil Burger, who directed the first Veronica Roth adaptation, Divergent,...

In Outriders, Earth is doomed. So we leave. It’s an enticing fantasy right now. As humanity continues to flail for solutions to climate change (not to mention all the other...

As the rising protests against police brutality have made America’s anti-Black racism difficult to ignore, Hollywood has responded by greenlighting more racial horror projects. Films and TV shows including Jordan...

At this point, it’s not difficult to argue that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, has too much power. I use platforms owned by Zuckerberg and people like him —...

It almost feels unfair to judge The Nevers based on the six episodes that begin airing this month, dubbed “Part One” of the show’s 12-episode first season. The new HBO...

You probably don’t think much about what your eyes are actually doing while you’re playing a video game. Before Your Eyes forces you to do so, however, as it’s played...

Godzilla vs. Kong is a 113-minute argument for movies projected on giant screens in front of crowds of people. It’s a smooth-brained good time. Depending on local pandemic recovery progress...

Creator Tom Bidwell (Netflix’s Watership Down) has been dreaming of making The Irregulars into a series for more than a decade. As a fan of the gang of street kids...