A summer that brought us Swiss Army Man can't be considered a summer of failure. And hey, I haven't even seen Kubo yet…

As improbable as it sounds, the fact that this description is not totally inaccurate and that the movie is still great is part of its unlikely charm.

Man, Angel Olsen. I do like her music, and I'm really looking forward to checking this one here out.

It already played around these parts (it's actually right continuing its surprisingly, but heart-warmingly long run in the more artistic leaning cinemas around here). It's easy to want to be contrarian when the praise is so universal, but it really is something special. Both in the 'how did somebody have those ideas…

I've seen Under The Shadow at a festival and can confirm that it is really rather good. It succeeds in having a great premise for a movie (essentially, trapping its main character in an environment by believable circumstances, both obvious and more subtle, and all of them politically charged without ever feeling…

Much like the horny teenagers the movie revolves around, I was too 'entranced' (to use the word the video's narrator chose) by Maribel Verdú when watching Y tu Mama tambien for the first time to actually register the long takes. Almost surprised to see that they were already present there. (In my defense: I was not…

I'd actually nominate in serious the one movie that Jesse only mentioned in passing: The Myth of The American Sleepover. It is, in its own way, as atmospheric as It Follows, but gentle were Michtell's It Follows goes for terror. Myth is not as widely seen, I imagine, but you could check out the French BluRay version…

Oh boy, I've finally got a chance to rave nostalgically about my all-time favorite game trilogy without having to squeeze it awkwardly into an article that has diddy all to do with the game!

My first thought was Dire Dire Docks, my second thought Diablo's town theme — and lo and behold, those two were covered in the first comments. Terranigma would have been my next choice — glad to see that you have thought of it, too. (I actually played it way later on an emulator, but I would agree that's one of the…

It helped that you basically did close-combat brawling the whole time through. You usually didn't need see a whole lot of environment, as long as you could just keep that combo going. (I guess that's the thing up in the article about the 'verbs' you mainly use to interact with the environment defining the camera,…

I can assure you, both from personal experience and observation, that most kids take their gaming very seriously.

But is there actually a game in which more than one Lakitu show up simultaneously? Which would lend the theory of it being a sub-species more credibility. If it's only ever one we encounter, it might as well be a mystical, god-like being — the Mushroom Kingdom's Thor or Raiden, so to speak.

until they have no choice but to make a Hellcow trilogy

May I pitch in? One that stroke me as interesting is the second part of Mark Johnson's essay(s) on how to use procedural generation to create culturally, ideologically, and religiously rich game settings and lore. (First part was interesting, too, and Ultima Ratio Regum sounds extremely fascinating.)

Also, the new Torment will be turn-based (as was Wasteland 2), even though the devs pondered making it realtime with pause — a backer's survey was pretty much split 50/50, so they decided that they would be more flexible with the turn-based approach.

I guess you could take basically every song ever used in an (early) Wong Kar-Wai movie.

You could have gone with Drive and College's A Real Hero or Kavinsky's Night Call instead, you know? Gotta give those AV Clubbers their chance for spouting AV Club-memes.

Don't Stop Me Now never fails to conjure up that marvelous scene from Shaun of The Dead where the cast is enthustiastically beating up the zombie, too. Which is all the more impressive considering that the song is as ubiquitous as it is. Guess Edgar Wright has a knack for it.

Countless ones, I guess.
But for some reason, the one that comes to my mind first is the Penguin Cafe Orchestra's Perpetuum Mobile, which I can't hear without adding the voices of the main characters in Mary&Max.

Close enough. A little too, maybe. Without wanting to get technical, let's just say that it was a place were the ski chase in Grand Budapest Hotel was basically how we got to school.