A good parent will do anything for the welfare of their children. Nowhere is that more true than in George Nolfi’s Elevation, where a father has to travel from a safe haven into indestructible-beast-ruled territory to save his son's life. It's a gorgeously shot film with well designed creatures,
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina opens with the musing that “all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In Here, Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of Richard McGuire’s graphic novel, the statement flips: unhappy families are all alike, too. This is not to say each
Matt Reeves’ The Batman reintroduced us to Bruce Wayne (here, Robert Pattinson) in about the only way worth watching anymore (sorry, infinitely dropping pearls after a gunshot); focusing on the nuances of his first exploratory year of donning the cowl and becoming The Bat. It’s a gritty but
The first chapter of Kevin Costner’s epic Western saga Horizon: An American Saga, is heading to theaters, telling the stories of various sets of travelers trying to make their way west to a purported safe haven in the expansive American West: the town of Horizon. It’s a massive tale, intended to
Shambala. Avalon. White Castle. There are many tales of protagonists undergoing dangerous journeys in search of rumored paradise, like Caesar’s trek towards an oasis in The War of the Planet of the Apes or Furiosa’s drive towards the idyllic “Green Place” in Mad Max: Fury Road. In the case
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is a franchise revival that feels like it understands what made the original games so much fun. The gameplay is fast, frantic, and often delightfully violent, while the game throws a surprisingly large number of systems and mechanics at you. Thankfully, most of them feel
In 1977, a series of disability rights protests took place in the United States to protest the government’s failure to sign legislation that banned discrimination against people with disabilities. This protest, which continues to be the longest sit-in at a government office, was masterminded by
The 2026 reboot of Magic Knight Rayearth shows us that friendship is quite powerful in the magic department in Ep. 4 "Our Battle". It's a lesson from My Little Pony, but it's quite applicable to this anime too. Our trio of heroines will need that power, since this is their bloodiest battle to date.