Silver Pines is a game that combines survival horror, detective fiction, psychological mystery, and some Metroidvania exploration into a 2.5D adventure that is inspired by Twin Peaks, Silent Hill, Alan Wake, Widow’s Bay, The X-Files, and Resident Evil. What makes Silver Pines immediately interesting and different from other games of the genre is that it builds everything around atmosphere, creepy visuals,
Read MoreMarvel Television’s VisionQuest is finally here to conclude the WandaVision trilogy, and the studio is pulling out all the stops. Paul Bettany and Ruaridh Mollica swung through Italy to screen the first two episodes of VisionQuest (and a sneak peek at episode 3) at the Rome Film Festival on Thursday night. I happened to be in Bologna the day before, so
Read MoreIt feels great to not only see a major blockbuster that looks and feels like a movie—with heightened colors, expressive camerawork, baroque lighting compositions, A-list actors giving boisterous, theatrical performances—but also to see great reverence expressed for the source material it’s adapting. In fact, Kitao Sakurai’s transposition of CAPCOM’s Street Fighter might be the first live-action film entry in a franchise
Read MoreThanks to Gears of War: E-Day, The Coalition and People Can Fly studios finally return to the moment all players were waiting for. The story of how it all started and how, fourteen years before the original Gears of War game was set, a catastrophe occurred that shaped Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago into the soldiers we know. In Gears of
Read MoreI have no idea what the inside of a sperm whale looks like, and I have no intention of finding out. For all I know, the squishy, claustrophobic confines in the 2026 film Whalefall could be a far cry from reality. That’s the benefit of telling a story like this. No living person has experienced it. It’s a situation that has
Read MoreAmidst the ruins of her opera house, Lady Gaga has crafted something entirely unique: a dramatic farewell to her 2025 album Mayhem, reimagined as a futuristic, post-apocalyptic swan song for the ages. Mayhem Requiem is an entirely new take on an already critically acclaimed album, characterized by moody synthesizers and stripped-back production that allow Gaga’s incredible voice to shine through the
Read MoreVisionQuest, the concluding chapter of the television trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued through Agatha All Along, has finally been released on Disney+. The series follows the exploration and journey of a reconstructed Vision as he attempts to establish a new identity while confronting his restored memories. To help with this journey, there are some of the known and friendly
Read MoreYou Can See Everything shows Nathan Fielder asking Elizabeth Holmes one simple question: “Are you being real right now?” It’s a question that drove the marketing to popularity, as the scene shows Holmes radiating big puppy eyes, innocently tilting her head, and responding, “I’m always being real.” Without context, it looks like Fielder is in psychological warfare with one of the
Read MoreBack in May, Obsession, one of the highest-grossing films of 2026’s summer, released in theaters. It completely burst past expectations thanks to the artful directing and good use of its budget. If I could boast a little, I wasn’t that surprised, because I had been following the director, Curry Barker, for years on Instagram and YouTube with his comedic skits and
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