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by J. Nagle Whether through Jack Black’s musical talents or his line deliveries—namely one of a combative avian variety—anyone keeping up with the theatrical release space has surely heard of the celebratory crowds of A Minecraft Movie screenings by now. Buying tickets to a showing of the film felt like a gamble from the start, […]
Earlier this year, Amazon began its marketing cycle for its new animated video game anthology series, Secret Level. Helmed by Tim Miller of Netflix’s Love Death + Robots, the series brought promise of original stories set in varying universes from different video games episode to episode. While some await the episode based on Firewalk’s Concord—which […]
At the same time, though, even those low expectations get surpassed sooner or later. In late April, Paramount released the Knuckles spin-off series to Paramount+ ahead of the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Early on, the show was poised to expand the cinematic universe of the blue blur, with a focus on how his […]
Talks of a movie based on Minecraft have been floating around for nearly a decade now, though only Wednesday morning did we see what the concept finally had to offer. Fans were met with realistic renders of sheeps, ghasts, and piglins from the best-selling game, while the humans introduced into the world didn’t look quite […]
Borderlands is the latest film at the butt of cinemagoers’ jokes, along with Harold and the Purple Crayon if anyone was even slightly passionate about that one. Being described as laden with bad acting, directing, and action sequences all topped off with ho-hum box office returns in its opening weekend, Borderlands adapts the titular video […]
Exploding Kittens is a name any player of party games has at least heard in passing. The breakout Kickstarter hit has become a full franchise with expansions, spinoff games and ports, and now an entire TV series since its launch in 2015. The series feels a bit like it came out of nowhere, since I’d […]