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SIFF 2025: Four Mothers

SIFF 2025: Four Mothers

Seattle International Film Festival 2025's opening film is safe. By all accounts, that's what a festival opener should be. A light crowd pleaser that can play to all audiences and flood the balconies of the Paramount Theatre with uproars of laughter, to join in the community

Blue Prince (PC): The Art of Intuition

Blue Prince (PC): The Art of Intuition

It's a classic setup: You can inherit a stately home but under a strict condition. In Blue Prince, that condition is make it to room 46, that's room 46 in a mansion where – as you can see from the blueprints – there is only space for 45

South of Midnight (Series X): An Aesthetic Triumph Hampered by Repetition

South of Midnight (Series X): An Aesthetic Triumph Hampered by Repetition

In positive and negative ways, South of Midnight feels like a very pretty PS2 game. Admittedly, the art design is stunning, and is underpinned by technical chops; it’s the act of playing it that will take you back. A linear, action adventure game that’s heavy on simple platforming

Eephus: Eephemeral Warmth

Eephus: Eephemeral Warmth

Why do they care so much? Don't have they more important things going on? The brisk October air whistles through the falling leaves. Lush grass rolls gently like soft waves, the autumn sun hanging above the worn dugouts and a dusty diamond. Everything emanates a warm glow, softly

Avowed (Series X): RPG Comfort Food with Flashes of Genius

Avowed (Series X): RPG Comfort Food with Flashes of Genius

This latest RPG from Obsidian feels very familiar. In reductive terms, it's an amalgamation of a lot of popular, modern Western RPGS. The first person perspective, with a focus on combat and exploration, brings Elder Scrolls to mind (a breezy, colourful fantasy world that's more Oblivion

The Monkey: Always Banging on the Same Drum

The Monkey: Always Banging on the Same Drum

It is poetic, really, that Osgood Perkins' adaptation of the Stephen King short story, The Monkey (1980), matches the prop itself. In the short story, the wind-up toy monkey hits cymbals together. It turns out, due to Toy Story 3 (2010), a wind-up toy monkey that hit cymbals together

March 2025 Roundup

March 2025 Roundup

A great enough month of watching films that it was difficult to narrow down the best new discoveries into a neat list. Honorable mentions include Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia, Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof, and all 14 films included in my third annual birthday celebration marathon.