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As art forms, literature and video games couldn’t be more unalike…at least on the surface. Video games are hypersensory, stimulating with sight, sound, and touch while giving the player agency to play their way. Novels on the other hand are hyperlinear and unfold in the theater of the mind. One

This review contains spoilers for Yellowjackets season 3 episode 4. As the name of episode 4 suggests, “12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis” is centered on the trial of Coach Scott (Steven Krueger) as he desperately tries to plead his case to the Yellowjackets (and Travis). This episode of

Legendary actor Gene Hackman has passed away at the age of 95. While the circumstances of his death are still being investigated (he, his wife, Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home), those details can only help us understand this loss rather than truly

The 97th Academy Awards are an odd mix of left-field critical darlings and huge movies. The likes of Wicked and Dune: Part Two are contending with The Brutalist, Anora, and The Substance, the latter of which is probably the weirdest movie ever nominated for Best Picture. But while there’s some

Any chance I get to live vicariously through someone else’s experience in Japan, I’ll take it, especially in films. There are normally two modes of Tokyo movies: those that take on the point of view of native Japanese and those framed around foreigners. This sounds obvious, yet it fundamentally changes