I liked Mundaun because it literally hit close to home. Mundaun has a lot of things going for it: An absolutely unique artstyle (all textures were hand penciled by most-solo developer Michel Ziegler), an extremely dense atmosphere, which balances the uncanny with a grotesque sense of humor, and an impeccable sense of…

In the moment, in the theater, all those familiar story beats made my soul sing. Only afterwards, thinking about it, did the repetitive nature start to bother me.

Fun fact: Due to some really strange copyright deals, in my country, D+ has both Atlanta (which Ms Hacksaw had never seen before) and all the Ghibli movies. That’s our incentive to keep our account. (Which is good, because we both are really burnt out on Marvel and Star Wars content...) But I agree, once we’re done…

I might qualify as the world’s worst Soulsborne-player. I constantly play as “hollow”, because I’m afraid of invasions. I have only ever beaten one other player visiting me, thanks to somebody assisting me. And if you give me a shield, no matter how small, I’ll proudly disappear behind it.

I’m looking forward to Tom’s take on it. Every other movie in this column was big around here (i.e. Switzerland), too, but I really don’t remember anyone talking about American Sniper, like, ever.

Yeah, I get that. I mean, I’m probably not the first one to point that out, but I have watched “Spider-Man: Far From Home” yesterday. And I was absolutely positively convinced for a second that what it all built up to was that in the end, Peter realizes that having a freaking global killing system ready to annihilate…

I just now realized that Avengers was the last non-Guardians MCU film that I have seen in the cinema. Which is interesting, in a way; both me and Ms Hacksaw liked the movie alright (same as both Guardians films), but it still was the point when Ms checked out completely from the MCU, and I stopped watching the movies…

My entry point to his work were “The World” and “Still Live”, both of which I immediately loved.

Wouldn’t that be Spelunky, though, the original (and very popular) Rogue-lite? I mean, there certainly are people who are very much into Isaac, while never having heard about Spelunky. And I guess that it’s pretty common nowadays to never go back to the original Rogue, or even a Rogue-like in the “classical sense”,…

I guess this review is as good a place as any to write something I’ve had on my mind a while: as much as I regret how the Powers That Be have let the Games section on the AV Club bleed out, the fact that A. A. Dowd is now a reviewer in this section, too, is a blessing. You’re one of the movie critics I trust most, and…

I’m pretty happy that “Returnal” gets good rewards. I remember reading a blog post in which Housemarque more or less lamented the fact that what they always excelled at — arcade shooters of really high quality — was just not selling anymore. (This was after “Ex Machina”, a game praised by a whole lot of people, but…

Why, hello, may I introduce you to “Na půdě aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny?” aka “Toys In The Attic”, by Jiří Barta, legendary Czech director who made some of the weirdest and darkest stop-motion movies not made by anyone called Svankmajer or Quay? It is even on YouTube!

You know, thinking of “Avatar” as a really, really expensive and uncharacteristically un-wonky Luc-Besson-movie is a framing I kind really get behind.

As a lot of people have already mentioned, dumping on Avatar has become a sport of kinds. Which is why I actually liked reading this column — and I have come to trust Tom’s evaluations enough to think that maybe I should give it another go some time, when the movie is not carrying the burden of being “the most…

Hence, the Italian coffee maker mentioned in my other post. The frying pan would leave you terribly vunerable in real life. Whereas something about that unscrewing of the parts of the Italien coffee maker (prayer wheel-ish in its nature), or the bubbling sound the water makes as it rises, is so terribly soothing, even…

Oh, hi! Took me a while to remember what context my own post was made in. (Turns out I don’t remember random comments I have posted 7 years ago.) All the more happy to get your reply. Thanks for the information! The thing about feeling like loved ones are imposters will give me a whole new dimension of things to worry…

I feel you. I got by, but only so. And I was constantly surprised to see how the game managed to give me cold chills down my back all the way through, right to the end, even though it only has, like, 4 different kinds of encounters.

Let me be frank: I can’t be objective. I mean, its both literally and figuratively very close to how and where I grew up. (Basically, replace the goats with cows, the hayloader with a Steyr-Puch Haflinger and the coffee powder poured directly into boiling water with an italian coffee maker — we were rustic, but not…

Yeah, the birth of Sandman is what stroke me as the best moment in the movie even back when I was watching it in the cinema, and I still remember it fondly. Rewachting the embedded clip, I have to say that it has aged really well — probably one of my all-time favourite scenes in any superhero movie. It just makes one…

Which is frankly wild. I mean, he’s walking down a street in what seems to be supermodel town, and each and every woman looking at him does so cringing very hard at the minimum, looking at him in obvious disgust in some cases. How somebody could have read that scene any differently is bewildering.
(Or not — as…