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Mar
29
Final Fantasy Rewind: Famicomedy

Final Fantasy Rewind: Famicomedy

The most recent Final Fantasy movie's charming story of familial reconnection is undercut by garish games industry commercialism.
7 min read
Mar
22
Final Fantasy Rewind: The Ultima Flavor Experience

Final Fantasy Rewind: The Ultima Flavor Experience

Against all odds, a piece of Final Fantasy XV side content is the best adaptation the JRPG series has had yet.
7 min read
Mar
14
Final Fantasy Rewind: Dilly Dally Shill

Final Fantasy Rewind: Dilly Dally Shill

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children remains a travesty of its source material, and thus can be seen as a prototype for modern IP-driven pop culture.
6 min read
Mar
04
Final Fantasy Rewind: A Vast Image Out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles My Sight

Final Fantasy Rewind: A Vast Image Out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles My Sight

The first cinematic adaptation of the popular Japanese RPG series remains an ambitious, one-of-a-kind catastrophe.
7 min read
Feb
26
Final Fantasy Rewind: Cracked Crystals

Final Fantasy Rewind: Cracked Crystals

A retrospective of Final Fantasy movies begins with an obscure and bonkers anime video.
7 min read
Feb
20
Movies With Mumsie

Movies With Mumsie

Last week was all about my mother, and the movies we saw together.
11 min read
Feb
12
Argylle: The Bigger the Spy, the Bigger the 'Why'

Argylle: The Bigger the Spy, the Bigger the 'Why'

The Matthew Vaughan spy movie's ungainly, self-satisfied approach to action and comedy makes it a slog to sit through.
7 min read
Feb
09
Erosis

Erosis

Basic Instinct is a lurid joke played on its own misogyny.
8 min read
Feb
05
Veni Vidi Vacay

Veni Vidi Vacay

An Oscar season surprise, The Holdovers is modestly scaled but big on laughs and heart.
5 min read
Feb
02
He Wanted the Kingdom of God on Film

He Wanted the Kingdom of God on Film

Cinema Paradiso's ode to the moving image is more image than moving, but what an image it is.
5 min read