Film Torments: Sex and the City 2 (2010)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a facile mess. The original Sex and the City television series, from the scant few episodes I caught on Bravo past midnight as a teenager, was an occasionally...
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A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation)
SPOILERS ahead. In many ways, Final Fantasy – the series – was always leading up to Final Fantasy IX. Though the road was long and circuitous; though the path diverged in unforeseen directions; though...
Film Torments: After Last Season (2009)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan stares into the void of avant-garde a clue. When I was 13 or 14, some friends and I decided we were going to make a movie. We had no...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy VIII (PlayStation)
SPOILERS ahead. Be warned. So. Final Fantasy VII. The game that made Square a household name. The game that sold the Playstation. The game that redefined the Western world’s conception of an RPG. The...
Film Torments – Foodfight! (2012)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a disgusting piece of awful garbage. Much has been made of The Emoji Movie this past month. A brazen advertisement made to propagate its sponsored content with...
Film Torments: Showgirls (1995)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan watches an all-time camp classic. How do you describe Showgirls to someone who hasn’t seen it? That can be a difficult question to answer – there are so, so many...
Film Torments: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at the bastard child of a cultural milestone. Final Fantasy VII was kind of a big deal. If you read my absurd two-part dissection of both the game...
Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming – A deeply enjoyable, if not revolutionary, take on the webslinger
YES, IT’S ANOTHER Spider-Man movie. Toby Maguire kicked off what feels like an endless cycle of Spider-Man films 15 years ago, and since then we’ve had five films. The films have varied in their...
Review: In This Corner of the World – A vibrant study of a dark period
ALMOST anyone familiar with Grave of the the Fireflies will assent it was a work of art. Even if they’re not personally fond of it, it’s one of a handful of animated films that regularly features on published lists...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation) – Part I
FOR THE FEW WHO HAVEN’T heard, spoilers ahead. The story of the seventh Final Fantasy begins in 1994. Almost immediately after the release of Final Fantasy VI, Square commenced development on its follow-up, originally...
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