Essays/Lists

• THE AWL
  • ‘The Rocketeer’ Is the Most Relevant Movie of 2017
  • Is Eminem Dad Rock?
• BUZZFEED  READER
  • The New Spider-Man Movie Makes Live-Action Heroes Look Boring
  • Superhero Movies Will Have to Work Harder After ‘Black Panther’
  • These Netflix Comedies Show Teens in All Their Gross, Embarrassing Glory
• EGM
  • A Russian Crucible: Pathologic 2 and the Problem of Video Game Difficulty
•  FANBYTE
  • [Interview] The Physicality of Consciousness: A Conversation with Larry Fessenden
  • I Played Disco Elysium as an Absolutely Gigantic Fascist
  • Russian Doll, Majora’s Mask, and the Endless Horror of the Time Loop
  • Tarantino Dismantles His Time Machine
  • READYSET (Formerly ZAM, subsequently FANBYTE; archived links)
    • How Hellblade Reinforces Myths About Mental Illness
    • What Pocket Camp Gets Totally Wrong About Animal Crossing
• 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
  • What Every Anthology Series Can Learn from the Wild Anime, Space Dandy
  • Undone Follows a Rich Tradition of Deliberate Rotoscope Animation
• ROCK, PAPER, SHOTGUN
  • Hitman’s Humour Evolved Because of 47’s Penchant for Disguises
• 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)
  • The 25 Best TV Shows of 2018 (entries for Better Call Saul and Big Mouth)
  • The 25 Best Video Games of 2018 (Introduction, plus entries for Paratopic, Yoku’s Island Express, Celeste, and Return of the Obra Dinn)
  • The 25 Best TV Shows of 2019 (entries for Superstore, Evil, Mob Psycho 100, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, and Too Old to Die Young)
  • The 25 Best Video Games of 2019 (entries for Amid Evil, Death Stranding, Devotion, and Pathologic 2)
• 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

• FANBYTE
  • Concrete Genie [C+]
  • The Legend of Bum-bo [C+]
• SLANT MAGAZINE
  • Movies
    • Blinded by the Light [C+]
    • Crawl [B-]
    • The Day Shall Come [C]
    • Depraved [A-]
    • Girl on the Third Floor [C]
    • Greener Grass [B+]
    • I Lost My Body [B+]
    • Klaus [B]
    • Knives and Skin [C-]
    • Ms. Purple [C]
    • The Nightingale [B-]
    • Paradise Hills [C]
    • Promare [B-]
    • White Snake [C]
    • Zombieland: Double Tap [D+]
  •  TV
    • American Gods: Season 2 [D+]
    • The Boys [B-]
    • Castle Rock: Season 2 [C]
    • Chernobyl [A-]
    • City on a Hill [B]
    • Creepshow [B]
    • Euphoria [C+]
    • Fleabag: Season 2 [A-]
    • Four Weddings and a Funeral [D+]
    • Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal [A]
    • Joe Pera Talks with You: Season 2 [A-]
    • Killing Eve: Season 2 [B]
    • Living with Yourself [D+]
    • The Loudest Voice [D]
    • Luther: Season 5 [D+]
    • Native Son [C+]
    • NOS4A2 [D]
    • O.G. [C-]
    • On Becoming a God in Central Florida [B+]
    • See [D]
    • Servant [B]
    • The Terror: Infamy [B]
    • True Detective: Season 3 [C]
    • Turn Up Charlie [D]
    • The Twilight Zone (2019) [C+]
    • The Umbrella Academy [D+]
    • Undone [B+]
    • Watchmen [B-]
    • What We Do in the Shadows [B-]
    • When They See Us [C]
    • Work in Progress [B+]
  • Video Games
    • Ape Out [A-]
    • The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep [C+]
    • Black Mirror [D]
    • Chuchel (Some Further Reflection: Chuchel, Blackface, and the Ease of Silence)
    • Control [A-]
    • The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan [C]
    • Days Gone [D]
    • Disco Elysium [A-]
    • Extinction [C-]
    • FAR: Lone Sails [C]
    • Frostpunk [B]
    • Heaven’s Vault [B]
    • Hitman 2 [A-]
    • Hypnospace Outlaw [A]
    • Judgment [B]
    • Marvel’s Spider-Man [B]
    • Metal Wolf Chaos XD [B]
    • Metro: Exodus [C+]
    • The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories [A-]
    • Mosaic [C]
    • Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden [B-]
    • Observation [B]
    • The Occupation [C]
    • The Outer Worlds [C+]
    • Pathologic 2 [B+]
    • Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire [A-]
    • Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology [C+]
    • Red Dead Redemption II [B]
    • Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-Tered Edition [B+]
    • Sea of Solitude [C-]
    • Slay the Spire [A-]
    • The Sinking City [C]
    • Sunless Skies [A-]
    • This Is the Police 2 [D]
    • Unavowed [B+]
    • Vampyr [C]
    • Void Bastards [B+]
    • Wolfenstein: Youngblood [D]
    • Yakuza 6: The Song of Life [B-]
    • Yakuza Kiwami 2 [B]
• BLOG STUFF
  • Fade – Paper Mario: Color Splash [C-]
  • The Next Generation – Shin Godzilla
  • The Numbers – The Shrouded Isle [C]
  • Q&A – Alien: Covenant
  • Windows – The Silver Case [C+]