I think the Gex:Enter the Gecko slam seems a touch cruel. There were far worse 3D mascot platformers. It’s no Bubsy 3D or Blasto, after all.

I just watched Shin Godzilla for the first time the other day. It’s a slow burn of a movie, but boy, what a burn it is! It is almost an hour in before Godzilla’s final form is revealed (the early forms are pretty menacing but also a little goofy-looking). It almost hearkens back to the disaster-movie vogue of the…

I just said the very same thing elsewhere in these comments. If only I had scolled down...

Lukewarm take: the title sequence has been garbage since they discovered CGI (somewhere around the 7th Doctor).   At least, they seem to be better at keeping it short.  The theme song keeps getting more and more orchestal, losing a lot of the weird appeal that the oringinal theme had.

I feel like I “fell out” with Bethesda with Fallout 4. I started the game with measured expectations—the premise was stretched a bit thin by Fallout 3*, honestly—but I tried not to hold too much bias against it. And after the overlong preamble, I will admit that the thrill of being dropped into an environment you know…

Huh...Abby Howard. I remember watching her on Strip Search.  I’m glad she’s managed to prosper.  I might have to check this game out at some point.

But were you enjoyably unsettled?  Don’t ignore the other qualifier!

Knowing Taco Bell’s tendency to stoke FOMO, it’ll be one of those limited-time, roatating menu items.

Forget The Bear’s “Fishes” or Succession’s “Connor’s Wedding” or Barry’s “the wizard.” The Curse’s “Land Of Enchantment” takes the cake for inducing anxiety

I try to keep my composition as error-free as the AVC editing standards.

Honestly, I saw this kind of ending coming a mile away: Loki remembering that he’s a god (meaning there’s no upper limit on what he can do) and getting his deus ex machina on. Yet I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Sometimes, it’s the journey (a Journey Into Mystery, you* might say) that counts.

Which totally ignores the fact that unbalancing systems is fun, if it’s happening in your favor; seeking out these kinds of synergies and exploiting them to the hilt is a big reason that people play games in the first place.

More Playdate Season 1 capsule reviews:

I have generally been OK with Aronofsky’s weird morality plays, but The Whale is a littel more difficult. I started watching it and the performances are string all around, but the many scenes where the protagonist is shown eating some obscene amount of food (as if to say, “Look! Fatty has no self-control!”) usually…

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I like to compare him to Roger Corman or Lloyd Kaufmann.  The cheap-and-fast philosophy does often deliver more misses than hits, but the fact that they are willing to take chances on relatively unproven talent means you occasionally get something great (or at least that director gets experience and a launching pad…

No-one introduce Inherit the Wind to these people!

Maybe?!? *wiggles downward palm in a non-commital gesture*

But since the plot side of that speech also advises totally ignoring the CGI Space Wedgie that exploded last week–and which is now, apparently, turning every timeline into so much temporal spaghetti–it runs the risk of re-casting her very fair points about Loki’s motivations as potentially lethal distractions.