Between Mass Effect 3 and The Legend of Korra, I’ve found myself reflecting on endings quite a bit recently. What makes a good ending?...

Stories are driven by conflict. The protagonist wants/needs something—to become a gigolo in New York, to produce the worst show in the...

Mission: Impossible—Fallout is one for the fans. In terms of its plot and tone, it’s a near-perfect synthesis of everything that’s...

You know, in retrospect, I don’t think my initial review adequately conveys the oppressively bleak atmosphere that pervades City of the...

Caught a screening of The Unholy Three at Metrograph. It’s been a while since I sat down and watched a silent movie, and while this is...

Just got back in from the Fathom Events screening of Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1. Studio-produced animated shorts...

Comedy and tragedy are a double act, and few movies in recent memory embody that notion quite as elegantly as Stan & Ollie, the sad story...

Paragon or Renegade? Deal or Payback? Doug or Carley? Video games like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead...

Comfort food. That’s the best way to describe 007 Legends, at least in terms of gameplay. It won’t win any awards for innovation–it...

I like Eon’s James Bond films, but I love Ian Fleming’s original novels (except for Live and Let Die, which makes for a profoundly...

Stan Sakai likes to spin multi-layered tales. Several of his Usagi Yojimbo one-shots—“Kaiso,” “Jizo,” “Kite Story”—seamlessly weave...

The other day, I finished reading Usagi Yojimbo vol. 21: The Mother of Mountains. As always, Stan Sakai crafts his tale with superb...

Last night, I had a dream. A dream in which I slipped into a dark, quiet theater to watch Rian Johnson’s Looper for the third time. But...

Borden: He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing...

What do a self-destructive male prostitute (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and a UFO-obsessed community college student (Brady Corbet) have in...

I love genre conventions. I really do. Two gunslingers stare each other down, waiting to see who will draw first. An honorable samurai...

First thing’s first: despite being produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, Overlord is not an entry in the Cloverfield franchise—though there...

When it comes to overproduced studio schlock, my brother and I are connoisseurs. Sure, we enjoy competently-crafted movies, but nothing...

Before my parents separated, my father would tell me a bedtime story every night–anything from childhood memories of outrunning bulls in...

[Okay, so calling this a “film” is a huge stretch. Here’s how I see it: my childhood, my rules.] I was browsing the electronics section...