BDTB: Planescape: Torment – Part 2
In this week’s Breaking Down the Backlog, I burned my intestines to ash, snogged a half-demon and discovered what can change the nature of a man. I’ve just finished the second third of Planescape:...
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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...
Ex-Writer for the Half Life games outlines Episode 3 plot
Mark Laidlaw, the man who wrote Half Life, Half Life 2 and was the lead writer for the subsequent two Episodes, posted on his personal blog the entire plot to the mythical Episode 3. Why he did this or...
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...
A Final Fantasy Retrospective: Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation) – Part II
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of the previous Final Fantasy VII article, which can be found here. It is a game of such cultural and technical importance that I felt it needed more than...
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...
BDTB: Planescape: Torment – Part 1
You wake up on a stone slab in the middle of a cavernous mortuary, you have no memory of how you got there or even your own identity. The first thing you see is...
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