While I haven’t played many games made by PlatinumGames, and I probably won’t, one game I was instantly attracted to was their take on ...

The Jazz Singer (1927) Starring Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Yosselle Rosenblatt (credited as Cantor Rosenblatt). Directed by A...

Note: This review contains spoilers for Venom (2018). Although I like to keep up with Superhero films, I haven’t necessarily had t...

A Star is Born (2018) Starring Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, Sam Elliott. Directed by Bradley Cooper. S...

Tim Burton’s 1984 live-action short Frankenweenie has an odd place in his career. Not only did it have a more niche audience for the long...

Note: The following review contains spoilers for Scooby-Doo and The Witch's Ghost . Following the success of Scooby-Doo on Zombie Is...

DR. NO (1962) Starring: Sean Connery, Joseph Wiseman, Ursula Andress, Jack Lord, John Kitzmiller. Directed by Terence Young. Scree...

Following the release of Bambi in 1942, Disney released a series of package films, comprised of multiple shorts told through a framing ...

Hope everyone is staying safe, and, of course, writing. Well, this was newsletter week, which took up a good deal of time for me. The bigges...

While the mangaka Tatsuki Fujimoto is perhaps best known for his series Chainsaw Man and Fire Punch , he has also had a number of one-sho...

In the midst of their slate of big-budget action-driven superhero films, Warner Bros. has released a, comparatively, low-budget charact...

When the original Shantae released back in 2002, it didn’t sell very well, partly due to its low print run and poor distribution. However, ...

Following the success of Tony Hawk’s Underground in 2003, a sequel was released in 2004, simply titled Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 , whic...

Note: This review contains spoilers for The 25th Ward: The Silver Case. After the positive reception to The Silver Case , Suda51 developed...

Lost in Translation (2003) Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Fumihiro Hayashi. Directed by Sofia ...

After having finally seen Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost , we decided to watch Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders , at least partly si...

Hollow Triumph (1948) Starring: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz. Directed by Steve Sekely. Screenplay by Daniel Fuchs. Based o...

Fast and Furious (1939) Starring Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey. Directed by Busby Berkeley. Screenplay by Harry Kurnitz. Produced ...

Back in 2003, Disney released Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl , their most successful film based on one of their th...

After having become a Crash Bandicoot fan through the N. Sane Trilogy remaster, and having played Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled , I was c...

After managing to get a PS5 at launch, the first game I played was the pre-installed Astro’s Playroom , a fun introduction to the system and...

Note: This review contains spoilers for Resident Evil 2 (1998) , Resident Evil 4 (2005) , Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6 . Fol...

In the 21 years since Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island , the Scooby-Doo franchise has managed to remain stable enough for yearly direct-to-...

Note: This review contains spoilers for My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Legend of Everfree. After having watched and reviewed t...

Two years after the retail release of The Stanley Parable , Davey Wreden released his follow-up, The Beginner’s Guide , which I had purchase...

Following Codename 47 , IO Interactive started development on Hitman 2: Silent Assassin , released in  2002. As  the first game in the serie...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (aka The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) (1974) Starring: Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, G...

While certainly not the longest gap between sequels, twenty-nine years is still a pretty long wait for a sequel to Disney’s Hocus Pocus fro...

In 2013, developer WayForward had a successful Kickstarter campaign for the fourth Shantae Game, Half-Genie Hero , which finally saw a prop...

Close to the release of Silent Hill 4: The Room ( SH4 ) in 2004, a Eurogamer interview with Masashi Tsuboyama confirmed the existence of a ...

Capote (2005) Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr. Directed by Bennett Miller. Screenplay by Dan Fu...

The Breaking Point (1950) Starring: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter.  Directed by Michael Curtiz. Produced by Jerry Wald. ...

Thieves' Highway (1949)   Starring Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence Directed by Jules Dassin, Screenplay...

With the continuing success of Spin Master’s PAW Patrol multimedia franchise, the logical conclusion was the theatrically-released PAW Pa...

We’ve established by this point that we’re fans of the Tony Hawk games, particularly up to Underground 2 . From that entry onward, however,...

Our personal experience with the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series began with Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 for the PS2, however it did get u...

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938) Starring: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Directed by Frank Cap...

When I first saw trailers for Smallfoot , it didn’t really appeal to me. Though the idea of a yeti story from the yeti’s perspective se...

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010) Starring the voices of Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Summer Glau, Andre Braugher, Edward Asner, Susan Eisenb...

The Red Badge of Courage (1951) starring Audie Murphy, Andy Devine, Robert Easton Burke, Douglas Dick. Directed by John Huston. Screenplay b...

Hope everyone is staying safe, and, of course, writing. Yes, this is officially the start of the Hankins-birthday-o-rama. My birthday was Fr...

Amongst a number of major shifts within the animation industry at large, one was that DreamWorks Animation would no longer animate their f...

Around 2014, Sega launched Sonic Boom , a short-lived side series to the main Sonic series set in a new continuity across a handful of...

Note: This review contains spoilers for My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks. Back in 2014, I had reviewed My Little P...

DARK PASSAGE (1947) Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D’ Andrea. Directed by: Delmar Da...

One Battle After Another (2025) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti. Direct...