This piece discusses in detail the narrative and ideas of Nintendo’s eponymous 1993 game and its 2019 remake. Be prepared. It be the nature of dreams to end. Far away from a more classical fantasy kingdom accessed via a link … Continue reading Link’s Awakening: The Island of Lost Souls
The Mandalorian with the 80sest businessman hair! I’m still not convinced Steve isn’t part of a villain’s plan! Kristen Wiig has a crush on every boy! Discuss! Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984 Trailer Reactions
Two and a half years ago, I saw a very personally meaningful presentation on my campus by Ramzi Fawaz. Fawaz has contributed to modern writings on the 1970 queer ‘classic’ film The Boys in the Band, and is the author of The New Mutants, … Continue reading Stripped to the Bone: Radically Queer Comics
Early in his essay film Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen says that “Los Angeles is where the relationship between reality and representation is muddled,” and although that ambiguity is by its own nature complicated in such ways that shall … Continue reading Succinct Cinema: Exiled from Where You Were and Where You Are
Jake Junior had tragically, horrifically been reduced to nothing but a globless blank-eyed girl… Oh yeah, she never really had eyes to begin with, huh? Well, nonetheless she’s out for the count. Jake Jr. (Hoho) has been eliminated. He was … Continue reading The Creeps: Day 2
Hello and welcome to the spookiest entry yet in Lily “Lovely Bones” Ryan’s series on video game history! This week we’ll be confronting the history of licensed video games for the first and far from last time, starting with Disney’s … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #4: The Haunted Mansion
Content warning for discussion of violence, including but not limited to sexual violence. There is no word that captures the nature and subject of Jean-luc Godard’s film, Weekend, quite like bourgeoisie in both its French and Marxist connotations, embodying the dual nature … Continue reading Succinct Cinema: Absurdism as Class Warfare in Godard’s Weekend
I just felt like finishing this up real quick. I can’t promise I’ll keep progressing with this stuff again, but at least I can do this much. You can read the previous full chapters here: Liberty Legion Episodes 1 and … Continue reading Liberty Legion Complete Miniseries Archive
Hello and welcome back to the long-gestating Mid-Aughts Meltdown. This week we’re exploring the life and ultimate self-destruction of Acclaim Entertainment, through the prism of a return to my roots in bad 3D platforming in the 2003 game Vexx. Information … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #3: The End of Acclaim Entertainment
Hi hi AvoPlayers! We’re planning to record the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast sometime very soon (currently shooting for the 7th or 8th but can change as needed) and we’d love for you to join if you’re available. This … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #53, Take 2
This positively absurd jumble of a third sequel entitled Lethal Weapon 4 sets the unpleasant tone accordingly by opening with a white cop humiliating and endangering his black partner solely for his own amusement, right after the two melodramatically engage in … Continue reading Succinct Cinema: Lethal Weapon 4 – Dangerous and Confused
You’ve been tearing each other to shreds for our amusement for so long now. It’s time to end this. The remaining Saboteur tried desperately to take another stab at felling the Protector, just as the Serial Killer had before her, … Continue reading Werewolf 99: The Suffering Game – Day 6
Wonderland, with all of its games and sacrifices, has become almost familiar by now. Your adventuring parties, while tired and scared, have forged a closer bond through the struggles you’ve endured here. How adorable. Still so protracted in debate and … Continue reading Werewolf 99: The Suffering Game – Day 4
The world’s largest gaming event and trade show occurred last week in Cologne, starting with the Opening Night Live event on Monday August 19th, hosted and organized by Geoff Keighley. As that livestreamed event was where the majority of the … Continue reading Gamescom 2019 in Review
Your large band of rival adventurers have been residing in the mysterious dungeon called Wonderland, enduring all kinds of tricks and challenges at the hands of a pair of sadistic magic elves. Your illustrious hosts have permitted, given the long … Continue reading Werewolf 99: The Suffering Game – Day 2
You are several parties of adventurers in this fantasy kingdom, all having banded together for the time being to survive your journey through the dangerous and mysterious Felicity Wilds, a dense and gnarled forest. You all have traveled through the … Continue reading Werewolf 99: The Suffering Game – Day 1
You are several parties of adventurers in this fantasy kingdom, all having banded together for the time being to survive your journey through the dangerous and mysterious Felicity Wilds, a dense and gnarled forest. You all have traveled through the … Continue reading Werewolf 99 – The Suffering Game Signups
It’s time for another round of Muppet Casting,where we take a famous production and ask, if Jim Henson’s Muppets made their own version of it (in the vein of The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island), which Muppets would … Continue reading Muppet Casting on Broadway: Hamilton
The shadow of history, the darkest and most criminal parts as many nations possess, weighs heavily, and a most frequent practice throughout the world is displacing connection and responsibility, trying by individuals and institutions alike to forget and encouraging the … Continue reading Succinct Cinema: Responsibility and Fascist Legacy for The Bravura Bavarian
In the scattered urban landscapes across many of Jim Jarmusch’s works, people can be cramped together yet miles apart, all emotionally adrift from each other in a sea of concrete and glass. In the particular 1990s New York of Jarmusch’s … Continue reading Succinct Cinema: Ghost Dog – The Ties That Bind
The conferences have finished and all (or most) of the news is in. While everyone in California is still enjoying the show floor or resting afterward, those of us around the rest of the world can take a breath and … Continue reading E3 2019 in Review
