It's easy to think about shipping at this time of year. Alas, this time we're not talking about how best to send Christmas gifts for delivery by December 24th. No, we're talking about "shipping": in a nutshell, it’s the wishing for an on-screen couple to, well, be a couple. When it comes to Star
One year ago today I waited anxiously in a movie theater to see the newest Star Wars movie. Two and a half hours later, I walked out of that same theater feeling disappointed and perplexed. Over this last year since its release, many fans have scorned The Last Jedi (so have some Russian bots,
Disney and Lucasfilm have slowly but surely been bringing various aspects of the old Expanded Universe ('Legends", now) back into Star Wars canon. First, Thrawn reappeared in Star Wars Rebels. Then we had the Hammerhead Corvettes of Knights of the Old Republic appear in Rogue One. While these are
Carrie is one of Stephen King’s most loved and cherished works of fiction. Made into a seminal 1976 film and a later, more disappointing 2013 one, Carrie is an ageless tale of bullying, puberty, and female rage. When Mike Flanagan announced he was tackling the story of a telekinetic
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
If you strip everything else away, at the core—the soul, the center—of DreamWorks Animation’s “Forgotten Island” is the pure, unadulterated power of goddamn friendship. Potential spoilers ahead! “Forgotten Island” (written and directed by Januel Mercado and Joel Crawford) is,
