A feature which highlights weird, overlooked, wonderful pieces of media
In Which They Don’t Bury People Alive Anymore One of the great difficulties of writing about media is when you come across something that is incredibly solid. A sturdy, thoroughly well made production that doesn’t transcend the upper echelons of … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 08: Panic Room
In Which the Pink Puffball is Up to Tee One of the reasons Nintendo has been able to succeed for so long in the ever shifting industry called video games is a surprising amount of flexibility when it comes to … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 07: Kirby’s Dream Course
In Which This Will be Screened in Atom-o-Vision One of the most persistent questions in popular culture is, why are we attracted to scary stories? Why do we, as a public, subject ourselves to simulated terrors when the real world … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 06: Matinee
In Which There’s a Jump Button One of the problems that has plagued creators for centuries is how to follow up a project of obvious importance. When a work is created that revolutionizes and changes everything it’s difficult to imagine … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 05: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
In Which the Enemy is Inside I am loathe to indulge the precepts of nostalgia. To looks back and winsomely intone the fall of what was and could’ve been. The framing of “they don’t make them like they used to” … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 04: The Hidden
In Which There’s a New God In Town The world of video games is one replete with mashups and things that are like other things. More than any medium genre is determined by its relativistic qualities to certain other entries … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 03: ActRaiser
In Which There’s an Armadillo Tank The strangest thing about progressive rock is nothing really inherent to the genre. Not the extended keyboard solos, the constantly shifting time signatures, the tributes to both classical composers and jazz musicians, nor the … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 02: Tarkus
In Which, “I Forgot the Opening Line.” The MGM lion does not roar at the beginning of Brewster McCloud. No instead the iconic image spouts off the above statement. It’s the first sign that we’re not in for a typical … Continue reading Weird, Overlooked, Wonderful 01: Brewster McCloud
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