Neil Marshall’s Hellboy has its defenders, most notably Walter Chaw, who included a brief write-up in his Best of 2019.

I got lost in this game my first winter home from college. Like everyone, I was skeptical of 3D Metroid, and then the art direction totally charmed me: the vines snaking through the temple walls, the fog and droplets on the visor, those rare glimpses of Samus in the glare of a missile, those weirdly moving fans,…

There are plenty of other games where this could be a valid criticism, but Dead Space is not really a good example of that.

Does it bother you that Roger Rabbit is married to a human (well a human toon anyway)? If animals in a work of fiction can think and make their own romantic decisions, what’s wrong with it?

Reservoirs of neurotic post-Catholic shame are going to keep me from posing in the raw, but (like Faulkner’s hornily self-entombed Rosa Coldfield) I’m with you in spirit. Go for it, people.

She was great in both but maaaaaybe not inexplicably snubbed, imho.

You think those were inexplicable?

After the inexplicable snubs for her fine work in Mandy and Possessor, this nomination seems like the least the Academy can do.

This list is a weird read. Watched Hocus Pocus for the first time recently, its quality was only slightly higher than a TV movie of its era. But it’s better than TS 2 & 3?!

The absence of Three Caballeros is criminal. Sure, it’s problematic that Donald Duck hits on human women during a sequence that mixes animation and live action. Sure, it owes its existence to Walt Disney’s stint as a goodwill ambassador to South America during WWII, with all the cultural baggage that implies. But…

The original Pinocchio way down at #38 with some of the slop that was placed ahead of it is certainly...something.

I wonder how much this problem is exacerbated by streaming. The filmmakers may not entirely understand how their work will be displayed by every single service, and the problem will be compounded by the differences between streaming devices and monitors.

I resolve not to watch a single reboot or remake in 2023. I want to know if I can go the full calendar year without perpetuating the cycle.

I get that the slideshow admits as much, but Bodies Bodies Bodies isn’t even horror-adjacent.

When watching—or more accurately, experiencing—Avatar: The Way Of Water, the thing that will perhaps feel most awe-inspiring is the dignified beauty of the underwater ecosystems Cameron has created.

The narrative around Embracer has been pretty ridiculous up to this point. I’ve seen gamers celebrating the idea of new games in franchises that Square Enix has neglected. But the idea of a company slurping up IP made it all but inevitable that we would see some moves like this. They aren’t there to liberate…

There is a gaping Final Fantasy-shaped hole in this narrative. Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy VII were arguably the most influential eco-narratives in 90s gaming, and they both use the trope of the ruined world. At some point in the game, the heroes fail to avert a world-changing catastrophe, and then they must…

I agree with you but the problem is, we are the minority. The majority of people that buy games and who these companies make money off of, are the people that buy 2-3 games a year max. The people that will only buy an Assassin’s Creed or Call of Duty but put 500 hours into it and spend more money on microtransactions.

It DOES NOT refer to, has never referred to, and will never refer to queer subtext INTENTIONALLY used by QUEER CREATORS to explore legitimate queer experiences (or by anyone to sneak queer content under the radar of what would be allowed by execs/networks, ala Xena in the ‘90s). It’s fucking ludicrous to accuse a GAY…

It’s hard to draw a bead on this issue. The article makes it sound like the issue is players vs. streamers. The balancing the makes the game more fair for players makes it more risky for content creators who are (to some extent) driving its popularity.