The anime feature The Stag Kingnow streaming on Netflix has a number of important things in common with Studio Ghibli’s film Princess Mononoke: The plot of both films revolves around the spread of corruption in a country. Both protagonists are experienced warriors and exiled wanderers. Both films focus on lush natural landscapes and the people ...
In the new anthology film Types of kindnessIn The Last Supper, surrealist Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos tells three stories with the same group of actors – Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley and others. He recasts each of them in each section: Plemons is a troubled office worker, a paranoid cop and a ...
When game director Hidetaka Miyazaki tried to explain his then new game Demon Souls for the masses, he chose another game as a reference point: the classic Dungeons & Dragons-inspired role-playing game sorcery. FromSoftware wanted to “bring back the fun and charm of a classic role-playing game using the latest technology available,” Miyazaki told Famitsu ...
It’s been written that every time Blizzard releases a Diablo game, players are annoyed by it – it’s too dark or not dark enough, or too dour or not dour enough, or the loot isn’t good, or it doesn’t work . or its business model is suspect. It’s also written that there will be a ...
I’m not a poker guy, but I definitely am Balatro guy now. Created by one anonymous developer who appears under the pseudonym LocalThunk, Balatro is a deck-building roguelite that makes poker an infinitely replayable and highly addictive game by adding cards that break the rules of poker in the most delightful way possible – through ...
In 2016, New Zealand journalist David Farrier turned a small obsession into a major success his documentary Tickled, a deeply surprising look at the supposed sport of professional endurance tickling. What began as a quirky lifestyle article about a few online videos of young, athletic men being tied up and tickled turned into a personal ...
