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The Moment: There's No Home For You Here

And I would pound my masterpiece down flat between my hands If it meant I could only roll again - Cameron Winter, "The Rolling Stones" Few things could probably be more cliche and abrasive right now than trying to connect everything to the music of Cameron Winter and

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (Switch): Terrible On Its Own Terms

The issue is not that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond isn't as good as Metroid Prime, the issue is that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond isn't good.

The 25 Best Films of 2025

While the eye of the storm closes in from a thousand forces conspiring to devalue the human spirit in favor of cheap, exploitable profit, we continue to be immersed in a wealth of artistic brilliance that offers insight into the human condition.

HORSES (PC): A Bluntly Buñuelian Attack on Authoritarianism

The context around HORSES means that all conversations about the game end up being conversations around the game, and about the state of the medium as a whole. Despite being one of the most talked about games of the moment, it has somehow fallen out of the conversation even about

Seattle Film Critics Society: 2025 Award Winners

Seattle Film Critics Society (“SFCS”) announced the winners in 22 categories for the 2025 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards on Monday, December 15, 2025. One Battle After Another was named the Best Picture of 2025. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and shot in immersive Vistavision, the topical comedic

Seattle Film Critics Society: 2025 Awards Nominees

The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) has announced nominations for the 2025 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners ties the all-time record for most nominations in a single year with 14, matching 2022’s Everything Everywhere All At Once. Close behind with 12

Marty Supreme: Manifest Destiny

Josh Safdie's films largely traffic in the wake of the American dream, or about the way that the promise of this country eventually sands us all down into aberrant messes adrift in a sea of post-capitalist chaos. Over time, the focus has shifted and narrowed to be directed

One Battle After Another: The Revolution Will Put You in the Driver's Seat

The immediacy of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is met only by its steadfast refusal to place itself on any specific timeline, instead existing in an anachronistic permanent space of modernity where very little has changed over the course of sixteen years. It is both reflective

The Outer Worlds 2 (Series X): A Conversation Piece

Obsidian Entertainment made a name for themselves as an RPG sequel developer, the most notable titles being Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004) and Fallout: New Vegas (2010). With the original The Outer Worlds, Obsidian had a chance to do their own version of the game&

Hades II (Switch): An Argument for Iteration

Beginning on Xbox Live Arcade with Bastion (2011), Supergiant Games have delivered a slew of original games united by an indelible style. To an extent, though, it felt like their design sensibilities were building up to 2020’s Hades, a roguelite that separated itself from its genre contemporaries by turning

Hollow Knight: Silksong (Switch): Mastery Required and Rewarded

It was in one of the harder boss fights where Silksong finally clicked. Before this point, it was evident the game was great but – at this moment – everything fell into place in masterful fashion. It was a boss I really struggled with, hit my head against many many times but

Weapons: Where Is Everybody?

It's happening right beneath our feet. A nascent, permeating reality, a fog of unease drifting through a desolate suburbia. Seeking answers in an irrational world, desperate for a salve for the grief but refusing to acknowledge the world around you. Pulling weeds without removing the roots. Violence spills

Mafia: The Old Country (Series X): A Beautiful Façade

The Mafia series is nothing if not interesting. The first game released in 2002, a year after the release of the medium defining Grand Theft Auto 3, and presented a new model for what the open world crime game could be. Where GTA gave you a world as a playground,

Fantasia 2025: OBEX: Beautifully Strange and Strangely Beautiful

For all its overt strangeness and surreality, it is the tenderness of OBEX that stands out. This a tactile yet ethereal film about a lonely man with a computer (not given a time period but evocative of an earlier era of computing, the time of floppy disks, etc.) who makes