Let’s talk about our favorite games from each video game platform. List and discuss your favorite five (or more) titles from the Sega Dreamcast! How do you feel about what the Dreamcast signifies as the last major hardware-producer bowout of … Continue reading Five Finger Discount: Dreamcast Discussion
Content Warning For: Discussions of violence historical and otherwise, and embeds of disturbing imagery. Before the Blair Witch, before the Cannibal Holocaust and the band Spinal Tap, the scripted, fictionalized use of documentary formatting and filmmaking had already emerged. Film … Continue reading Succinct Cinema: The Filmography of Peter Watkins is Radicalism, Personified
Let’s talk about our favorite games from each video game platform. List and discuss your favorite five (or more) titles from the Game Boy Color! As someone whose first handheld was the GBA SP, how was the Color? Was … Continue reading Five Finger Discount: Game Boy Color Discussion
Let’s talk about our favorite five games from each video game platform. List and discuss your favorite five (or more) titles from the Nintendo 64! I considered including the Virtual Boy here after Shinigami Apple Merchant mentioned a couple weeks … Continue reading Five Finger Discount: Nintendo 64 Discussion
Let’s continue to talk about our favorite five games from each video game platform. List your favorite five titles from the original PlayStation! How do you feel about the evolutions of the system’s controllers, with the original lacking thumbsticks, then … Continue reading Five Finger Discount: PlayStation Discussion
Let’s talk about our favorite five games from each video game platform. List your favorite five titles from the Sega Saturn and tell us about them! For a very apt pairing of troubled consoles, let’s also include any and all … Continue reading Five Finger Discount: Sega Saturn
Let’s talk about our favorite five games from each video game platform. List your favorite five titles from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and tell us about them! (My dearest apologies for the lateness of this post, … Continue reading Five Finger Discount: SNES Discussion
or the Commodification of Backstage Narratives. There is a distinct trajectory at work in the evolution of narratives surrounding the notions of the “magic of movie-making,” what could be otherwise considered the cinematic equivalent of Künstlerroman, or most simply the … Continue reading Succinct Cinema: Lost in a Full Tilt Boogie
Warren Ellis’ Castlevania Season 3 was released this week. The season consists of ten episodes. Takes deep breath AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH Continue reading Castlevania S3 Spoiler Space
A Bostonian bartender in Los Angeles, Troy Duffy sold a film script for $300 grand, with several other lucrative deals immediately subsequent, and in all his pride and excitement, asked two film student friends and bar regulars to start documenting … Continue reading Succinct Cinema: Ugly Truths of Indie Film
Hello and welcome back to the Mid-Aughts Meltdown on its one-year anniversary, fresher and edgier for a new decade in all the ways you’d expect: we’ve got publisher-mandated bolted-on multiplayer; a fursona character creator 13 years before Sonic Forces, but … Continue reading Mid-Aughts Meltdown #5 – Blinx 2
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
