At the start of 2018, I took the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, vowing to watch one movie directed by a woman per week throughout 2018 — both female-directed flicks that have now become classics in the canon and amongst critics, and new…
15 Thoughts I Had While Playing Fortnite for the First Time
It was early June of 2017 when I first learned of Epic Games’ Fortnite — back when the title was still roughly seven weeks out from launching in paid early access, when it was still just a co-op sandbox survival…
We Happy Few Unbanned in Australia
We Happy Few? More like We Happy Many. Two months after the Australian Classification Review Board confirmed that Compulsion Games’ We Happy Few — the upcoming indie survival and adventure game inspired by BioShock, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Brave New World —…
Fortnite Players’ Average Spending Habits Revealed
Where singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc needed just a single dollar in his 2010 soul-blues song, Fornite players need a whole lot more — 84 to be exact, according to a new survey conducted by LendEDU, a student and personal loan marketplace…
The Year of Spectacular Men Movie Review: The Deutches Dazzle, Occasionally Dodder in Charming Comedy-Drama
Contrary to its title, the most spectacular thing about The Year of Spectacular Men is its women: scriptwriter-star Madelyn Deutch, actress Zoey Deutch, and director (who makes her feature debut) Lea Thompson, the mother of Madelyn and Zoey who clearly…
Hotel Artemis Movie Review: Drew Pearce’s directorial debut is overstuffed but not totally awful
The day filmmaker Drew Pearce lifted the veil off his directorial debut — the coolly designed and extra-violent yet somehow still ungainly Hotel Artemis — he admitted he purposely tried to create “one person’s favorite film, rather than lots of…
Deadpool 2 Movie Review: Extra brutal, extra bawdy, but still twice as nice
This review contains slight spoilers for Deadpool 2. Sequels are scary. Writers, directors, and actors know it. The seasoned critics, rosy-cheeked fanatics, and everyday theatre-goers who witness the fruits — squidgy sun-wrinkled or sparkling superb — of their labor know it.…
