Monthly Archives: March 2021

After Killing Mario, Nintendo Promises It Will Kill Again

At the time of writing, Nintendo’s public execution of famed plumber and hero of the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario Mario is due to happen today. By the time you read this he might already be dead. As the world mourns and wonders how it will move forward without everyone’s favorite Jump Man, Nintendo isn’t finished. InContinue reading “After Killing Mario, Nintendo Promises It Will Kill Again”

The Best Thing About Superman & Lois isn’t Superman or Lois. It’s Dorky Clark Kent.

Superman & Lois on The CW has so far been very good. It’s only been five episodes at the time of writing so there’s still time for it to fall off a cliff but so far so good. It looks great, the performances are all good to terrific and the Superman action all looks great.Continue reading “The Best Thing About Superman & Lois isn’t Superman or Lois. It’s Dorky Clark Kent.”

Zack Snyder Needs to Embrace the Fact That He’s the American John Woo

The fabled Snyder Cut of Justice League is finally upon us. All four hours of it. Turns out it’s pretty good. It’s not the masterpiece that some of his more crazed fans will try and tell you but it’s solid. The story makes more sense, Cyborg has a character arc now, the action scenes areContinue reading “Zack Snyder Needs to Embrace the Fact That He’s the American John Woo”

9 Years Later, No Game Has Critiqued Violence Better Than Spec Ops: The Line

2012 saw the release of Spec Ops: The Line, a game that on the surface is just another run of the mill, third-person military cover shooter. The more you play however, you start to realize that not only is it not that kind of game but it hates those games and wants you to hateContinue reading “9 Years Later, No Game Has Critiqued Violence Better Than Spec Ops: The Line”

Justice League Isn’t Worth Fighting About

Next week, Zack Snyder’s Justice League will release on HBO Max. That sentence either made you groan or cheer. The fact is as soon as it releases, there is going to be a war on social media. There will be those who will blindly sing it’s praises unable to find any faults in it andContinue reading “Justice League Isn’t Worth Fighting About”

Six Days on Twitter is a Video Game That Reenacts One of the Most Controversial Console War Battles

It’s a war that a great deal of people disagreed with but it happened anyway. The Console Wars never needed to happened. Especially not after the backlash towards the first one that happened in the 90s. Unfortunately no matter how much people insisted that it was a waste of resources and protested in the nameContinue reading “Six Days on Twitter is a Video Game That Reenacts One of the Most Controversial Console War Battles”

Marvel Isn’t Ruining Cinema Any More Than Buster Keaton Did

There’s a group of people out there that absolutely hate superhero movies. Martin Scorsese went as far to say that Marvel movies are not real cinema. Ever since he said this, the superhero movie haters have only become louder. Their disdain for spandex clad spectacle was emboldened by the words of one of the greatestContinue reading “Marvel Isn’t Ruining Cinema Any More Than Buster Keaton Did”