By The least surprising part of the first trailer for season 2 of the Prime Video series Batman: Caped Crusader occurs in the last few seconds. That’s where the Joker makes his presence known, dropping a few cryptic lines before unleashing his signature laugh. Even before the Clown Prince of Crime’s
Simple Game Loops and Their Place in Pop Culture
The simplest games often last the longest. Not because they lack depth, but because the player understands the promise almost immediately: do one thing, see what happens, try again. That rhythm has travelled from arcades to living rooms, phones, web games and casual digital entertainment. Pop culture remembers it because
Trailer: Kore-eda’s “Sheep in the Box”
The official U.S. trailer is out for “Shoplifters” and “Monster” filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Sheep in the Box,” a new sci-fi drama which premiered in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The story unfolds in a Japan a half-step into the future, where drones deliver everything, cars are all electric
“The One Piece” Anime Remake Teaser Trailer
Netflix has premiered the teaser trailer for “The One Piece,” the upcoming new anime series adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s classic manga, beginning with the initial parts of the East Blue Saga. Unfolding across the East Blue sea, a young and rather stretchy young man named Monkey D. Luffy pursues his
4K UHD Review: Don’t Play With Fire (2 Disc Collector’s Limited Edition)
When a group of us discovered the Hong Kong action wave that happened in the ’80s and ’90s, we found ourselves driving over an hour to Carrboro to rent VHS tapes from Dave’s Videodrome. There were three main directors that we would instantly grab their VHS boxes off the shelves:
