I’m not here to judge the best-selling memoir of J.D. Vance or his conservative politics the way others seem to do in their reviews of the film adaptation of Hillbilly […]
I think we’ve all seen a game that we immediately assumed would be trash. Movie tie-ins, shovelware, rip offs of more popular titles, anything on Steam that’s in Early Access […]
DedSec is back, and the team is bigger than ever. The largest selling point for Watch Dogs: Legion, the latest entry in publisher Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs series, has players swapping […]
The Project(s), a documentary-style theater piece that tells the story of Chicago public housing, past and present, had its world premiere in May 2015 at American Theater Company (shut down […]
I love retro games, especially those I might have missed when I was a kid. Strife fits the bill—developed in 1996, it was released at the height of my obsession […]
In the era of multipart docu-series, it’s nice to see a documentary film with multiple twists and turns and questions and theories all in a compact space of less than […]
The Neo Geo Pocket Color was a system I missed out on when I was younger. I didn’t really play games on handhelds back then—but I missed out on […]
Hardware limitations are nothing new to video games. Most games will have minor to significant concessions from the developers’ vision just to get their game to run correctly. Black Desert […]
Celebrations erupted all over the Chicagoland area on Saturday as the news came in that former Vice President Joe Biden is now the president elect of the United States. After […]
Bugsnax was an obvious standout during the PlayStation 5 reveal event. I don’t think I’ve ever been so simultaneously horrified and intrigued about a video game. I don’t know if […]
It’s a curious decision to release the scariest movie of the year a week after Halloween, but here we are. Writer/director Bryan Bertino’s The Dark and the Wicked is the […]
Feel free to add director Joe Marcantonio’s debut feature Kindred to the list of recent genre works that are actually family dramas couched in the effective framework of horror and/or […]
