Having fell in love with Fellowship when it was released (and, having started work at a cinema, getting to see it and The Two Towers many times each), I can’t remember being more excited for a film than this one – or having a more emotional reaction to one. From “I can’t carry it for you” onwards I seemed to remember…

It’s 2015, and I am tiredly trudging through Disneyland’s California Adventure with my then 11-year old daughter. It is the second day of our two-day visit. We are both exhausted already, and it’s scarcely 11am on the second day.

As we pass the main strip leading down the primary avenue leading into the park, we hang a…

The thing I love most about the Toads is they always seem to be having a wonderful time. Even if they’re getting folded up or turned into blocks or stuck inside walls, they’re never like...depressed?

They love their lives and their princess and they are having a wonderful time.

This has a real ‘internet of the ‘00s’ vibe to it, and that’s high praise.

I’m so thrilled you said Abzu, which is one of the few games I’ve gotten my little sister invested. “Can anything hurt you” is her #1 question for games, and while late-game Abzu technically can hurt the character you’re never in danger of dying. That’s a big relief for her (and friends) and it’s the only game she’s…

There are some great points here about how much pressure Columbus et al was under to make as literal of an adaptation as possible. Yet it made for such an interesting contrast to Fellowship of the Ring, which came out only a month later. The Sorcerer’s Stone reeked of a studio trying desperately to make money off a…

The thing I hate most about this movie is how it slams in the anti-commercialism angle, which I think is honestly an incredibly juvenile read of the holiday. And, as this article points out, is soooooo hypocritical.

Any time you hear about something incredibly corrupt destroying American lives, turns out Reagan helped it get there. 

In 1989, my mother and my 3 year-old-self were caught crossing the border near Tijuana. We were leaving El Salvador where the American caused Civil War convinced my mom to finally leave. My mom and I were put in a detention center, TOGETHER, for 2 days. We applied for asylum as refugees of war and were permitted to…

Back is at about 70% today. It was at 80% last night, so things are getting better. I wrapped up Paper Mario and the Origami King last night. That really is a fantastic game and is more than a worthy successor to The Thousand Year Door. I’m not good at sliding puzzle games, so a lot of the fights were a big challenge…

Being 100% honest, that there are no real consequences makes its easier to choose the ‘dangerous’ option. If real me were presented with real Astarion and real Gale, I’m choosing Gale and immediately calling the cops on Astarion on sight.

One bit of interesting trivia that I found while doing research on these games is that Doki Doki Panic actually did start off development as a Mario game. So, even before they put in the Fuji TV characters for their Dream Factory ‘87 event, it had Mario DNA at the heart of it. Shigeru Miyamoto even had them include…

It’s still one of the most amazing stories in gaming history that Nintendo scraps a true SMB2 for being fanhack difficult, redresses a different game, and THAT game also happens to become a stone-cold gaming classic of its own right. They just had all the golden horseshoes.

Dayum, the dude on the skateboard is magic. I could watch that all day. I can’t 1. skateboard 2. drink cranberry juice while skateboarding 3. film myself singing and drinking cranberry juice while skateboarding. Fuck Hilton, he is irrelevant, more skateboard guy!