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I was supposed to do this review a month ago, but then I arrived in L.A. only to find out I wasn’t sharing a house with four people, I was sharing an apartment with twelve, a situation I’m still trying to get out of. This has left me with very little time for games, but I have managed to get a few hours in here and there. While I still haven’t beaten Death’s Gambit, I’ve played enough that I think I can give proper thoughts on it, which means I’ll be revising some opinions when I gave my brief rundown several weeks ago. Death’s Gambit is a 2D Soulsborne/Metroidvania hybrid that evokes the games of yore, pixelated graphics and all. I’d originally said it was 16-bit, and I honestly thought it

This is gonna be short, probably because I’m the only person I’m aware of who actually enjoyed this movie. The Predator is written and directed by Shane Black, making his return to the franchise after 31 years. Shane Black is mostly known for writing, directing, and screwing up Iron Man 3, but he got his start as an actor in small roles. His second film was the original Predator, where he plays Hawkins, the skinny soldier that the Predator kills first. He also acted as an uncredited script doctor on the same film, doing some last-minute tweaks here and there. On to the movie. A spaceship crashes somewhere in Mexico, interrupting a black ops mission by U.S. soldiers. The Predator kills everyo

This weekend the new Predator movie will be released, simply titled The Predator. Despite being one of the most recognizable monsters in cinema history, this will only be the fourth Predator movie, not counting the two Alien Vs. Predator films. Compared to the number of films starring the aforementioned Aliens (xenomorphs in universe) and the various slasher film series, the Predator’s outings seem relatively small. Yet somehow, the Predator has managed to endure in popular culture. So, with The Predator opening this week, I thought I’d give a brief primer on this series. I don’t think there’s really a ton of in depth analysis to give, unlike, say, the first two Alien movies. Plot wise the f

I know this is a few days late, but I didn’t get to see The Nun until Sunday. Spoilers ahead, and while I feel this should go without saying, do not under any circumstances take a kid to see this film. S P O I L E R S ! The Nun is the third spin-off from The Conjuring series. Specifically, this is a prequel to The Conjuring 2 about the main villain in that film, the demon Valak. You don’t need to have seen either of Conjuring movies, but if you have, you know exactly what kind of movie you're in for. Set in 1952, a nun in Romania commits suicide, the ultimate sin in Catholicism, or at its presented as such in this movie. I’m admittedly not Catholic, so I can’t speak as to what the correct do

Hey folks, I’ve landed safely in Los Angeles, more or less, and I’m adjusting to life in California. It’s different than Michigan, to say the least. I know I said in my last post I’d put up my review/thoughts of Death’s Gambit, and I meant it. I even had a gloriously awful pun of a title, CaSOULSvania. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen. My living situation has turned out to be significantly different from what I thought it was going to be, and right now I’m not really in a place where I can play video-games for any length of time. So, I’m unlikely to have any game reviews until November, for which I apologize. For what it’s worth, believe me when I say I’m more annoyed about it than