Joybubbles is quite a sincere opening for our Sundance Film Festival 2026 review coverage. Similar to the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, this documentary explores the challenges of a man living with a disability as he seeks ways to connect. For Ibelin, it was through the fantastic gaming landscape of World of Warcraft. For Joe Engressia (also known as Joybubbles),
Read MoreIt may be easy to dismiss Ángel Manuel Soto’s The Wrecking Crew as a fake-looking piece of “content” that only serves to fill an ever-expanding algorithm on Prime Video. You could be right to think this way, since none of the promotional materials have fully advertised the film’s pleasures the way they should have. The movie was also essentially dumped on
Read MoreThe great formalist Sam Raimi has done it again with Send Help and continues to prove why he’s one of the best genre artists working today. Of course, it (pun intended) helps that his two leads, Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien, go all in with Raimi’s flashy, kinetic expressions, as the two protagonists fight for survival within the confines of a
Read MorePercy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 returned with much more confidence than the first. There wasn’t a lot of careful threading, like in season 1, to test out the waters. There’s no more burden of introduction to this world, explaining who the gods are and their role in all of it, how demigods are born, what Camp Half-Blood is, etc.
Read MoreMarvel Studios’ Wonder Man hits Disney+ on January 27th. I was provided access to watch all eight episodes early, and I can say with confidence that it’s among the most audacious and successful entries since the MCU began tackling television in 2021. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, the standout of DC’s Aquaman, brings an emotional vulnerability and sensitivity to the character that we
Read MoreWhen I first heard about Sleep Awake, I didn’t quite know what to expect. The pitch sounded wild. Players take the part of a woman in a collapsing, dystopian city where sleep is what kills you as soon as you drift away to slumber. That alone was enough to grab my attention from the start. Another reason was that it’s a
Read MoreSundance 2026 is upon us, which means it is time to discuss the films we are the most excited about. Last year had a remarkable lineup, including Train Dreams, Omaha, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and so much more. The 2025 festival also featured groundbreaking documentaries, including The Perfect Neighbor and Life After. It was one of the best
Read MoreStar Wars Outlaws was released in mid-2024 as the first true open-world Star Wars game. It thrust players into the underworld of the galaxy, allowing them to work for syndicates during the time of the Empire as Kay Vess, a new scoundrel on the scene. Outlaws received some rather unfair criticism before its release, which led to middling sales. Unfortunate issues
Read MoreI’ve always been a fan of new and creative ways that developers come up with when presenting 3D platformers. I sometimes worry that when starting a new platforming game, I’ll come across something either too difficult or too long, and thankfully Big Hops fits somewhere in the middle. Big Hops is a new action platformer developed and published by Luckshot Games.
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