Television
Once Upon a Time—the classic opening to many fairy-tales—is best known for blurring the lines between storybook narratives and modern life. Characters from our...
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Film
A daring Bangladeshi teen-aged girl battles the dangers of the big city when she disguises herself as a boy to earn extra cash for...
Gaming
Seasons of Mystery for the ENNIE-winning Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying has been released today by Free League Publishing – right in time for...
Gaming
From Funko Games comes a board game based on the beloved 90s Disney film, A Goofy Movie. Play as your favorite characters from the...
Reviews
The War Campaign. Perhaps the ultimate test for a DM in both planning and execution. Far removed from the core D&D experience of the...
Culture
That thing happened over the weekend where people gave me gifts to commemorate that time I took my first breath free of amniotic fluid...
Television
The wild popularity of newcomer actor Alycia Debnam Carey has caused some unexpected buzz for AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead. If you haven’t already...
Television
“…I have little regard for an art that deliberately aims to shock because it is unable to convince.” — Albert Camus, in the 1957...
Film
You know, I’m going to be honest. When you open your movie with a voiceover about evil “Dark Elves” you’ve already got quite a...
Analysis
After a rather dramatic week in nerdom, I am back to watching the Hunger Games trilogy tetralogy of movies, this time with Mockingjay Part 1. Now,...
Film
Finally, another trailer for Civil War premieres! One that has already elicited some strong reactions. Maybe this isn’t surprising; Marvel did a good job of...
Books
It is one thing to take my young friends walking over the Shire with me, until we are hungry and weary, and food and...
Television
[y’all know there’re spoilers, right? okee doke] This episode. Was. Ahhhh well, okay, lemme start at the beginning. As I was watching my thoughts...
Analysis
Two weeks ago, I wrote a review of Fuller House where I encouraged everyone to watch it because of how deliciously disturbed its meta...
Television
People who try to sell The Magicians as a “sexy Harry Potter” strike me as amusingly tone deaf. I understand the marketing angle —...
Gaming
Minecraft is a sandbox game. It lets you project whatever you want onto your world. In Minecraft, you can build a castle, be the...
Television
“There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!”—Arthur Miller, The Crucible Last week was polarizing, to say the least. On...
Television
[spoilers for 6×9-12 of The Walking Dead, and obviously tw for discussions of racism] Let me begin by saying yes, I definitely ship Richonne....
Film
Okay, fine. It’s true, of the three Iron Man movies thus far in existence (please don’t tell me there’s going to be a fourth….)...
Television
Okay, okay okay. The Season 6 Game of Thrones (GoT) trailer dropped. I promised at the end of last season that I was going...
