This past weekend, Arrival hit theaters worldwide and was met with overall positive criticism. The film deals with the arrival of aliens on Earth and a select group of human scientists and professors who are tasked with figuring out the…
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TV Review: Once Upon a Time 6×08 “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
It was nice to see Once Upon a Time remember a few things. Things like the Evil Queen having an actual bond with Henry. Also, that Jasmine and Aladdin are apparently still in town. It’s not everything the show has…
TV Review: Once Upon a Time 6×06 “Dark Waters”
In the Once Upon a Time episode Dark Waters, the characters asked both themselves and others a lot of questions, and I had a few too by the end. Questions like, how did the Evil Queen know about those…
TV Review: Once Upon a Time 6×04 “Strange Case”
Once Upon a Time certainly got dark in the episode “Strange Case,” which delves into the twisted history of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, just in time for Halloween. Its message, about the shortcuts we take to try to rid…
VIFF Review: After the Storm
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. Many use the words “deceptively simple” to describe a film which makes what it’s trying to do look easy. However, I don’t think the words apply better to any director than Hirokazu Kore-eda and…
VIFF 2016 #3: Life After Life, The Student, Being 17
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. The Student I like to think of The Student as a total inversion of that pro-Christian blunder God’s Not Dead. Instead of the squeaky wheel Christian as the underdog trying to fight the…
Retro-Graded Games: ‘Castlevania’ After 30 Years
There is something strangely ironic about returning to 1986’s Castlevania for the game’s 30th anniversary: picking the title up on the 3DS Virtual Console feels more like I myself am waking the dead as opposed to taking them on. If…