Alien Dark Descent is not only a good tactics game, but it also has a really solid story that pulls from the movies and comics.

I haven’t read GoT, but my understanding is that those books have an absolute abundance of detail. Cixin Liu’s characters have names, jobs, and a gender and that pretty much concludes development and arcs. I think DnD are essentially back in the position of adapting an outline.

I liked it quite a bit, and if you’re in the mood for more card battlers I’d recommend Fights in Tight Spaces for a more straight forward tactics game.

I saw about 3 seconds and knew it was Bertrand Mandico who did After Blue. For a sci-fi laser lesbian western about killing Kate Bush it was surprisingly dull. 

The costumes alone were worth the price of admission

When Evil Lurks is my favorite horror movie of this year. It’s an Argentine movie about what happens when you need an exorcist and there isn’t a priest. The director has said in interviews it’s about failing institutions and was inspired by the use of a pesticide that sickened workers. It’s a tough watch, but I loved…

I’d heard a rumor that the contract states only Majors can portray the character, but I’d have expected some kind of morality clause.

I’m still a little upset no one has used the tech for a horror movie yet. Something like Invasion of the Body Snatchers would be a real nightmare.

I’d kinda thought a good way to introduce Doom would be have him show up in the second act of some other villain’s movie. No set up or teasing, just have him show up, take out the villain, and launch his own scheme.

That’s the meanest thing anyone has ever said about Brazil. My memory of the film is 1. no one has ever been as lit so well as Emily Browning in that movie 2. Having the intense feeling that ever action beat was directly lifted from an anime I’ve seen.

I was really pleased with  Scavenger’s Reign. It’s kind of “softer” than I usually like out of scifi, but it’s captivating. I’d like to get more adult animation like it in the future.

I’d forgotten it came out this year. It’s a blast, there’s really no one else like Boots Riley out there.

I figured that’s what you meant. I read those as being remnants of another, other alien species. With the wall integrated things being some kind of sufficiently biological robot thing. Looking at the concept art again and the original scene, I like it.

Hindsight is 20/20, but even at the time I got the impression that Scott was using the Alien franchise to make his own movie in an environment where studios are resistant to original IP. When he later made Raised by Wolves it felt like it was truer to what he wanted to say.

I’m glad someone brought up Dark Descent. I was expecting a fun tactics game, but it delivered a really solid Alien story. My favorite story after Alien 3 which I seem to like more than a lot of people. I don’t recall it touching on the Engineers or Jockeys though.

I love The VVitch, but I didn’t really appreciate it on the first watch.

I’d love a more Andor direction, but Tony Gilroy has also expressed reservations about spending too much of his life working on one project. I don’t think he’d take it even if he were offered. I just hope he get some blank check projects out of this.

At this point I’ll believe they’re making a new movie only after I’ve seen it.

When he signs up for a movie, he seems to have a strong vision for about 10 seconds worth of slow-mo hero shots, and no care at all about the rest of the movie.

I think this is the best approach. Fire in the Sky has one incredible scene, but the rest is pretty middling. Someone like Mike Flanagan could easily improve it.