I’m climbing up a metal ladder; it’s some time at night, and the rain is making everything glisten, including the…
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Prior to Firefly (2002–2003), creator Joss Whedon had written demons (in the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer), mutants (in…
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Dear Fallout 4, From January to December 2018, we enjoyed a whirlwind relationship in a lamp-lit room with the curtains closed…
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Shirow’s The Ghost in the Shell, together with titles such as Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1982-1990) and Yuzo Takada’s 3×3 Eyes (1987-2002), represent the cultural…
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Leaves on the Wind has one central theme that stretches throughout its galactic core and on towards its border planets: Family.…
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With the full force of both Marvel and DC movie campaigns raging with their spectacular, firework-laced steam, comic book women…
Creative Failures and Failing to be Creative: Sci-Fi Cinema in 2017
If the Hollywood sci-fi movies of 2017 have one unifying special effect that will come to epitomize the collective output…
Playing With Harley – A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Character in Video Games (Part 2)
The first game in Rocksteady’s Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) uses the same voice cast as Batman: The Animated Series (including Arleen Sorkin as Harley…
Playing With Harley – A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Character in Video Games (Part 1)
In the comparatively short period of 25 years that Dr. Harleen Quinzel has been dressing a certain way, following a…
