There were quite a few pleasant surprises at yesterday’s Nintendo Direct presentation, one of which was the news that the hit Wii game Donkey Kong Country Returns is getting the HD treatment for the Nintendo Switch family of systems. Many wondered who the developer was for this specific title and in the meantime it was ...
There is no amount of acoustic pain that composer Christopher Lennertz would not endure for his buddy of 30 years Eric Kripke, the current showrunner of The youngLennertz listened to endless amounts of boy band stuff before writing the single Super-Sweet “Rock my kiss” for Season 3 and challenged himself to write the most emotional ...
In the fourth episode of The AcolyteOsha (Amandla Stenberg) meets some new Jedi and Jedi friends. One of them is a small, otter-like creature named Bazil. Bazil and Pip, Osha’s fussy robot companion, keep sniffing and beeping at each other, interrupting the mission briefing that Osha is trying to follow. Afterward, Osha approaches Jecki Lon ...
Picture: Nintendo Nintendo’s The reputation of hunting down anyone who uses their intellectual property in a way they don’t like is pretty well documented. Some of these incidents make sense, such as the prosecution of ROMs and other things that could hypothetically affect the sales of games and consoles. But now Mario Pursue has found ...
Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars series The Acolyte has deserved praise for its mere existence outside of the Skywalker Saga – after 47 years of stories set in the same timeline, a jump back “100 years before the rise of the Empire” to the shinier era of the High Republic is all it takes for aching ...
The Acolyte keeps the identity of the mysterious Sith Master secret, but in our humble opinion, it couldn’t be clearer. [Ed. note: This post is going to discuss the end of episode 4 of The Acolyte; spoilers are below.] For a moment, things look really bad for the Master: Mae (Amandla Stenberg) and her loyalties ...
The first Smile was a pretty good horror movie and a pretty big hit. While those two facts are closely related, at least part of the film’s cultural impact was due to its incredible marketing campaign, which saw people show up to high-profile events like sports games wearing the series’ signature unnatural grins. It didn’t ...
In the media landscape of 2024 Scavengers rule feels like nothing short of a miracle. Originally conceived as a 20-minute short film by co-creators Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, the series was greenlit for a 12-episode season on Max (then HBO Max) and slowly matured in production for several years before premiering last fall. With ...
House of the Dragon has always been about how the smallest decisions can have unforeseen consequences, but rarely has that theme been as clear as in the season two premiere. In the show’s first episode back from hiatus, Daemon Targaryen decides to take matters into his own hands, with a plot twist that probably could ...
Finally I saw challenger this week. It was immediately included in my personal ranking of the great modern sports films (as well as a gripping, delicate romantic drama). The film uses the existing strong narrative structures and character archetypes in sport to create a compelling story – the washed-up talent, the fading star, the phenomenon ...
