Despite numerous advances in the medium, video games remain largely a (mostly lonely) frivolity, at least when it comes to representation on screen. Even when a show seems around Games — Your playeryour Mythical Quests – it’s really all about the interactions that happen outside of the games or the process of creating them. Stop ...
Greetings, Polygon readers! Each week we round up the most notable new releases on streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies you can watch at home. It’s a good week for horror, with the surprisingly good omen Prequel on Hulu and a terrifying stop-motion film (…titled Stop motion function) on Shudder. But ...
First, “Dot and Bubble,” the latest episode of Doctor Whoseems to borrow from Black Mirrors bag of tricks. It’s set on Finetime, a planet where everyone is accompanied by a small spherical AI assistant called Dot, who projects a “bubble” around their heads. In their individual bubbles, people live their entire lives – chatting in ...
What is dead may never die. E3 could be gone for good but his spirit lives on in the Summer Game Fest. Hosted by the creator of the Game Awards Geoff Keighleythe event kicks off in June and promises teasers, trailers and world premieres for the biggest games of tomorrow and beyond. Find all the ...
My Oni Girl is a charming, emotional fantasy where the details don’t quite add up. The ending of Netflix’s anime film, in particular, raises many questions about what an Oni actually is in this setting and what rules apply to the hidden village where these creatures from Japanese folklore live in isolation. Still, in between ...
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In early May, filmmaker and critic Jenny Nicholson released the four-hour YouTube documentary The spectacular failure of the Star Wars HotelThe video has since been viewed nearly 6 million times and has spawned dozens of follow-up posts ranging from passionate hand-wringing over the diminished quality of the modern theme park experience, to critics arguing against ...
The week has barely begun (even less so if you are in the US and reading this on Monday holiday!), and already there is a quite a lot of television to get through. With a bit of luck, you will have some time over the long weekend to catch up on the news – after ...
It has been almost a year and a half since DC Comics released the breathtaking finale of James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Buenos’ The beautiful house by the lake. The 12-issue limited series, which won an Eisner Award, follows a group of 11 people who are invited by their mutual friend Walter to an ...
The sympathizer is full of twists and turns—and why wouldn’t it be? It’s a series (based on a book of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen) that follows a Viet Cong double agent from the end of the Vietnam War to his life as a refugee in America while working to ensure the Viet ...
