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[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The narrative structure of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is unconventional,...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] You either lose your mind or die. No in between. That quote is Cyberpunk:...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] [Seriously, I LITERALLY GIVE AWAY THE ENDING IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH;...

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There was no other way. It’s no hyperbole to claim that Doctor Strange played an instrumental role in thwarting Thanos’ genocidal...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Digital Age has transformed mankind into a society of insatiable...

I was not emotionally prepared for what I encountered within the pages of In Ghostly Japan. I was only vaguely familiar with author...

[The following essay contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Over the course of his career, David Cronenberg has become...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] One of Everything Everywhere All at Once’s many spectacularly...

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In my Black Widow review, I argued: The villains, sadly, are far less compelling and memorable, existing only as shallow, generic...