Unfortunately, the cinema I was at in Switzerland didn’t get the letter either. Very nice, though.

I’ve heard a bunch of them are living in Staten Island.

RIP.

This, more than anything, makes me think that they don’t really care about staying true to the IP all that much.

I get your point. But to be fair, “sexy” was always part of the package. Gothic sexy, maybe, but don’t tell me that Raul Julia getting off Anjelica Huston talking French was not doing... some things to some people.

villain of classic literature into a menace of vegetative viridescence

According to the Wiki, Myazaki insistend on Jiji not speaking because he represents the childish part of Kiki’s character, which she has matured out of. Which... well, is a bit bitter-sweet, makes sense? I’m somehow glad that I have never watched the English dub, because I’m not a big fan of too liberal…

Same here.

This week-end, I shall be playing God damn Valve is putting out a Steam Switch for a decent price — can I hold unto my resolution to not buy any new console or a gaming PC again?! I don’t know if it will be much fun, though.

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…