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HLVRAI Remains a Masterpiece of Machinima, Improv Comedy, and Chaos
Six years ago this month the first installment of the video game machinima improv comedy series Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware uploaded to YouTube. Published during the height of Covid-19 lockdown, Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware (HLVRAI) endeared itself to millions who found themselves stuck indoors looking for new art. Since…
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HLVRAI Remains a Masterpiece of Machinima, Improv Comedy, and Chaos
Six years ago this month the first installment of the video game machinima improv comedy series Half-Life VR but the AI is Self-Aware uploaded to YouTube. Published during the height of Covid-19 lockdown, Half-Life…
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Experiencing Project Hail Mary: The Director’s Experience, for Science.
At a time when phone use in theaters is a hot-button discourse, Project Hail Mary directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have released an in-theater director’s commentary, accessible exclusively through an app. Project Hail…
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Hunting Matthew Nichols, Finding Little Else
Hunting Matthew Nichols is a found-footage horror movie presented as if you’re watching a real documentary about a woman searching for her long-lost brother. Over 20 years ago, Tara Nichols’ (Miranda MacDougall) brother Matthew…
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Forbidden Fruits Delights in Toxic Messiness
Forbidden Fruits captures the spiritual rot at the core of modern mall culture in the same dedicated, loving way movies like Mallrats captured the liminal qualities of 90s malls. A massive Texas mall stuffed…
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Project Hail Mary Delivers Rocky Fun
Finally, a movie for neurodivergent folks who pull their glasses off halfway and leave them for extended periods of time. Project Hail Mary is finally here, once again trying to take an aggressively dorky…
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They Will Kill You With Style Over Substance
They Will Kill You is a rip-roaring ride of an ultraviolent vengeance action flick, when it wants to be. Kirill Sokolov wears his love of Tarantino grindhouse schlock on his sleeve, though connective tissue…
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Call Off the Search: Ready or Not 2 Found Gold
The new Ready or Not makes no effort to hide its glee at getting to exist. More blood explosions, more intense kills, more bonkers evil rich people played by powerful character actors.
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Storm Rider’s Ship Flounders on Arrival
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead is a fascinating idea: What if a couple dudes just… made up a franchise? Something that takes all the tropes and visual cues of being based on a comic…
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The Golden Spurtle (2025): Peaceful Porridge
In a harsh world, porridge provides. This is somewhat of a difficult review to write. Usually I throw on something in the background for ambient noise. An optional distraction my eyes can wander over…