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Forget Tenet and Watch Synchronic

Graves
Jan 18, 2021

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Perhaps the most alluring aspect of time travel is the idea that if you went back, things would be simpler. You’d find yourself transported to a more innocent time, an era without the complications of everyday modern life. Whether it’s the comfort of the 1950’s of Back to the Future or the inherent silliness...

Quarantine Viewing: Shoplifters

Graves
Nov 13, 2020

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I’ve been trying to figure out a way to write about Shoplifters ever since I saw it; searching for an angle or a ‘hot take’ like a shark out for blood. I read a lot of reviews of the film and watched a ton of YouTube video essayists discussing it but I felt like...

Host Is The Horror Movie We Need Right Now

Graves
Aug 4, 2020

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There is a new horror movie on Shudder. This is not news. Shudder releases new content every other week, but this one is unique. It’s called Host. It was made during our current era of Covid and quarantine and takes place during that timeframe. So, of course, it takes place entirely on Zoom, an...

Quarantine Viewing: The Souvenir

Graves
May 17, 2020

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The painting shows a young woman carving her lover’s initials into a tree. A dog looks on as she does so. When Julie (Honor Swinton-Byrne) is taken to see this work of art by her boyfriend Anthony (Tom Burke), they both stare at it not with a sense of wonder but with the curious...

We All Slept On The Nightingale

Graves
Feb 17, 2020

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When Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook first arrived on screens a few years ago, it felt like the arrival of a bold new voice and one that was going to be very hard to ignore. It’s not uncommon for an indie horror/genre film from a foreign country to break through the crop of blockbusters and...

Best Films of the Decade

Graves
Dec 31, 2019

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With the decade coming to a close, I decided to take the time and make a list of my choices for the 20 best films of the past ten years. 20 films for 2020 was kind of the idea. Of course, this is entirely subjective and just felt like a fun thing to do....

REVIEW: The Death of Stalin is the Perfect Black Comedy for These Cold, Hard Times

Noah Redfield
Mar 14, 2018

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Early on in Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi) barges into the apartment of Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (Michael Palin). He informs Molotov that Stalin (Adrian McLaughlin) is dead and plans to release Molotov’s wife, who’s been suffering in captivity at the hands of the sadistic Lavrenti Beria (Simon Russell...

Columbus and the Space Between Things

Graves
Feb 7, 2018

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A few years ago I was going through a rough time. I was feeling lost and overwhelmed. A friend offered me a meditation technique to help center myself whenever that pit in my stomach threatened to cripple me completely. I’d never thought much of meditation but was willing to try anything. I was told...

What I From Video Games in 2018

Mike Staub
Jan 3, 2018

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Now that the dust has settled and a giant crystal ball has slowly descended into Times Square, it’s time to look forward to 2018. While 2017 was an absolute circus on Earth, video games had one of the greatest years in their existence. There were so many amazing games to play by year end,...

The Best Games of 2017

Mike Staub
Dec 29, 2017

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Each year we like to celebrate the best. The best TV shows, the best Movies, the best lunches. We love celebrating what we consider to be the greatest achievement in any medium for the year. Games should be no different! These are the my picks for the best games of the year! With very...

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