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In collaboration between DreamWorks Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks, here comes Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado‘s Forgotten Island. Taking place in the 1990s/early 2000s Philippines, the fantasy comedy film follows two young women about to be separated by a fork in the road. Raissa Molina (voiced by Liza Soberano) is accepted into a university in California, but it comes at
Read MoreFrom the first announcements, The Blood of Dawnwalker was revealed to be a dark fantasy RPG. But when many people saw the trailer, they started to compare it to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. And it was not surprising because the studio that made the game, Rebel Wolves, was founded by veterans of CD Projekt Red. After spending time with The
Read MoreDirectorial choices can undoubtedly hamper a film, and no motion picture released this year proves this inextricable fact more than Paul Greengrass’ The Uprising. The film is allegedly a prequel to the legend of Robin Hood, but not really. The marketing desperately tried to convey that this was a thrilling reinterpretation of the archetypal story, but Greengrass’ style proves unsuitable for
Read MoreIn 1993, Doom changed the entire landscape of what a first-person shooter PC game could be. While there has been a lot of history that happened before the iconic series debuted on home computers, it was not created in a vacuum. That is where Doom Video Games: How A Doomed Space Marine Changed Gaming Forever by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi comes in. This expansive
Read MorePrimetime is the type of film that could easily have been a disaster. It’s a very difficult task to put the audience against someone who is catching child predators. Especially since Chris Hansen has done work beyond the network juggernaut To Catch a Predator to help reduce child trafficking at home and abroad. However, since the documentary Predators, there has been
Read MoreWild Horse Nine is another Martin McDonagh movie that finds remorse in the scummiest of scumbags. In In Bruges, McDonagh made two unlikely hitmen hilarious and somehow empathetic, mostly through the performances of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. His new film, Wild Horse Nine, does something similar. The film follows two men in a tedious profession and the friendship they have
Read MoreAfter 5 years in development, Insomniac Games has finally released Marvel’s Wolverine. The game is another exclusive (for now) PlayStation 5 game that takes a noticeably different approach from the studio’s iconic Spider-Man games. There is no enormous open world to explore, no side quests, no meaningful side activities, and no attempt to turn the game into another superhero open-world playground.
Read MoreWithin the first second of Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, the American filmmaker of Polish and Japanese descent immediately grabs our attention with large (and maximalist) title cards that announce a boisterous theatrical event. Divided into six chapters (plus an epilogue), Wladyka follows a Japanese dancer named Haru (Rinko Kikuchi), who competes in ballroom competitions with her boyfriend Luis (Alejandro Edda). A story
Read MoreBeware Boiúna might be a creature feature, but it is very much a slasher film. Like films such as Friday the 13th or goofy slashers like some of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, we know right away who will live or die the minute they start speaking. The difference is the person holding the knife is a snake, and her
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