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From Titanfall to Star Wars It Was Respawn’s Decade, We Just Lived In It
Getting a game made is a small miracle. The amount of work, tech and money required to create a game these days is enormous. For as many games that have been made there are just as many that never made it past the idea stage. It's rare then…
Knives Out | Part Agatha Christie Homage, Part Sharp Social Satire
It’s interesting the upstate mansion has become a symbol of prejudice in the cinema of Trump’s America. Opposition to the “elites” was a rallying cry of the man’s incendiary presidential run. Yet it’s the not-so-humble abodes of the upper…
Cinematic Comparison | The Little Mermaid and Ponyo
As part of the famous Disney Renaissance the 1989 release of The Little Mermaid took the world by storm and is still one of the most easily recognisable animation films to this day. It told the story of Ariel and her undersea adventures as…
Trailer | I Know That Face
The only movie podcast devoted to character actors, each episode of I Know That Face delves into the career of one of those people where you know the face but maybe not the name. From Bob Hoskins, to Mia Goth, to Viola Davis, hosts Andrew…
The Nightingale | A Tough, Terrifying, Terrific Story of Colonial Cruelty
Few arthouse films this year are as likely to appeal to an Irish audience than The Nightingale, writer-director Jennifer Kent's follow up to her breakout debut The Babadook from 2014. After all the Aussie filmmaker's latest is essentially…
Album Review | Healing Spells Experiments On Vestiges
Healing Spells, the solo venture of Japanese electronic producer Past Lives, is something of an experimental detour, garnering comparisons to OneOhTrix Point Never and Gold Panda. Vestiges is the culmination of musical and physical…
Finding Positive Uses for Video Games
Some people have long dismissed video games as sources of time-wasting, distraction, isolation, and in some cases, violent thoughts and actions. However, in an increasingly digital society, video games are a regular part of daily life, and…
Fires Burn, Fires Fade: Dark Souls and a Decade of Difficulty
The easiest thing to do this decade when writing about video games was to compare something to Dark Souls. From Crash Bandicoot to Cuphead to Assassin's Creed to Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order Hidetaka Miyazaki's now legendary creation became…
EP Review | The Make Shift E.P. is Cathartic for Beg Friend
The Make Shift E.P. by Beg Friend opens with the standout track, 'Slow Burner', starting with a series of beeps before the sample kicks in. The sample is a recording of English actor Laon Maybanke, prominent in the 60s, reading from T.S.…
Rabid | Cronenberg Remake is a Mutated Mess (And Not in a Good Way)
When Jen and Sylvia Soska burst onto the horror scene in 2009 with their low budget as you can get indie flick Dead Hooker in a Trunk, word spread quickly of the promise these two women possessed in their filmmaking arsenal. Three years…