Essays/Lists

• THE AWL
  • ‘The Rocketeer’ Is the Most Relevant Movie of 2017
  • Is Eminem Dad Rock?
• BUZZFEED
  • Superhero Movies Will Have to Work Harder After ‘Black Panther’
  • These Netflix Comedies Show Teens in All Their Gross, Embarrassing Glory
• THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER HEAT VISION BLOG
  • Is Hollywood Adapting the Wrong Video Games?
  • The Muddled Politics of ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’
  • What ‘Venom’ Was Missing
  • Why Does ‘Rampage’ Even Try to Be Plausible?
• PASTE MAGAZINE
  • Prey Lets Me Be Asian (+ lingering concerns/end notes)
• POLYGON
  • Netflix’s Live-Action Bleach Movie Is a Product of Its Time
• READYSET (formerly ZAM)
  • How Hellblade Reinforces Myths About Mental Illness
  • What Pocket Camp Gets Totally Wrong About Animal Crossing
• SLANT MAGAZINE
  • The 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time (Introduction, plus entries for Animal Crossing, Cart Life, Half-Life, Kentucky Route Zero, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Planescape: Torment)
• SYFY Wire
  • A Brief History of Godzilla Cartoons
  • Why Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Was the Perfect Continuation and Conclusion
• THE VERGE
  • Crazy Rich Asians Has Survived Impossible Representation Standards
  • Cult Favorite Anime FLCL Still Shines 15 Years Later
• VICE
  • Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin Was the Best Superhero Villain, Actually
• BLOG STUFF
  • Nathan Drake Is Crash Bandicoot: Uncharted 4 and Acceptance (Critical Distance – May 14th)
    • A Coda: Uncharted, the Crate Joke, and Rejecting the Drake Legacy
  • Donald Trump Ruined ‘Arrival’ and All Other Alien Movies Probably
  • Inner Universe: ‘Ghost in the Shell’ and Whitewashing
  • Some Remarkably Late Thoughts on 2016 Music and the Nature of Lists
  • A Wildly Overstated Complaint About the Pistol in Max Payne 3

Reviews

• SLANT MAGAZINE
  • The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep [63]
  • Black Mirror [30]
  • Chuchel (Some Further Reflection: Chuchel, Blackface, and the Ease of Silence)
  • Extinction [40]
  • FAR: Lone Sails [52]
  • Frostpunk [77]
  • Marvel’s Spider-Man [74]
  • The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories [90]
  • Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire [90]
  • Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology [61]
  • Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-Tered Edition [85]
  • This Is the Police 2 [33]
  • Unavowed [88]
  • Vampyr [56]
  • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life [67]
  • Yakuza Kiwami 2 [75]
• BLOG STUFF
  • Fade – Paper Mario: Color Splash [49]
  • The Next Generation – Shin Godzilla
  • The Numbers – The Shrouded Isle [54]
  • Q&A – Alien: Covenant
  • Windows – The Silver Case [58]