It didn’t take long for No Sleep For Kaname Date, the third installment of Spike Chunsoft’s AI: The Somnium Files series, to get an audible groan out of me. That was thanks to two words I’ve grown sick of over the last six years: porno mag. Those words will either mean nothing to you or activate some kind of Pavlovian …
Read More »
Ari Aster’s “Eddington” is such a superb social satire about contemporary America that I want to bury it in the desert for 20 years. More distance will make it easier to laugh. It’s a modern western set in New Mexico — Aster’s home state — where trash blows like tumbleweeds as Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) stalks across the street …
Read More »
Time is a flat circle in the legacy sequel I Know What You Did Last Summer. Nearly three decades after an ill-fated accident led to tragedy, then murder, a new group of friends unwittingly stumble down the same path, awakening the Fisherman’s wrath once more. Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), who co-wrote with Sam Lansky, uses Southport’s latest slasher …
Read More »
Shadow Labyrinth didn’t make the best first impression, though I’m not talking about the game itself. The concept of a gritty reboot of Pac-Man first reared its strange head in Secret Level, an anthology that turned notable video games into animated shorts that mostly felt like extended commercials. And that’s exactly what the episode “Circle,” which reimagined Pac-Man as a …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Review: The Best Wearable AI PCMag The Galaxy Watch 8 Pissed Me Off, but I’d Still Recommend It CNET Galaxy Watch 8 Classic vs Watch 6 Classic: Major redesign, better hardware and Health features SamMobile I walked 5,000 steps with the Apple Watch 10 vs Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 — there’s a clear winner Tom’s Guide Your brand-new Galaxy Watch …
Read More »
When RoboCop’s beloved police precinct is ransacked by a mysterious mercenary company, he has no choice but to hit up their hideout and put down the population of a small country. RoboCop: Rogue City is back, and it’s still good fun — for the most part. Unfinished Business is basically a mini-sequel. it’s actually entirely separate from the 2023 title …
Read More »
When RoboCop’s beloved police precinct is ransacked by a mysterious mercenary company, he has no choice but to hit up their hideout and put down the population of a small country. RoboCop: Rogue City is back, and it’s still good fun — for the most part. Unfinished Business is basically a mini-sequel. it’s actually entirely separate from the 2023 title …
Read More »
This latest installment in the saga of the Smurfs features a surprising new development in the history of the little blue guys, created by Belgian comic artist Peyo (Pierre Culliford) in 1958. For almost 70 years, each of the hundred or so Smurfs has been named for a sole defining characteristic, like Lazy, Grouchy, Baker, or Doctor. Then there is …
Read More »
Summers are about big, fun, mind-numbing movies. Great escapes in the best of ways. I need that right now, and maybe you do too. I’m happy to say that Donkey Kong Bananza is here to whisk you off to multilevel worlds of satisfyingly smashing madness, to cheer you up and give you an excuse to punch the heck out of …
Read More »
Here are some things that happen in Smurfs, the 2025 animated movie about those little blue guys called Smurfs. I could go on, but you get the idea. Smurfs is garbage. It’s a randomized assortment of Stuff That Happens in Kids’ Animated Movies, which scriptwriter Pam Brady (Hot Rod) and director Chris Miller (Shrek the Third, Puss in Boots) seem …
Read More »