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This Wednesday season 2 part 1 review contains no spoilers. The few series still hanging around the world of teen TV often squeeze themselves to death with overly complex plot lines without enough time to wrap them up neatly. Meanwhile, Wednesday is a straightforward comfort. Many shows with a mystery at the center struggle with…

Zach Cregger’s Weapons does not always feel like a horror movie, and for large stretches it isn’t one. The enigmatic genre piece begins and ends with a mystery: Why would 17 elementary schoolers, all from the same class, wake up  in their disparate childhood bedrooms at 2:17 in the morning and then vanish into the…

Anyone who has seen at least one SNL Digital Short has a favorite SNL Digital Short. That’s the brilliance of the short-form video format pioneered for Saturday Night Live by The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer) in the mid aughts. Each and every brief clip is creatively crafted yet utterly bizarre,…

As the Mortal Kombat 1 era comes to a close, the wider Mortal Kombat franchise finds itself at a bit of a crossroads for how to proceed after its 2023 reboot. Digital Eclipse, which has handled well-received classic video compilations like Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, has…

This Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review contains spoilers for season 3 episode 5. While Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a series that’s largely known for its sunny optimism, hopeful determination, and communal can-do spirit, it’s also a show that can get pretty darn dark when it wants to. From war stories that reveal hidden…

This article contains massive Weapons spoilers. It’s been three years since Zach Cregger burst onto the horror stage with Barbarian, his shocking pivot into stunning genre filmmaking. That word of mouth hit would go on to make 10 times its $4.5 million budget, setting Cregger up as the newest horror director to watch. Now The…

While the full breadth of the fighting game community came together to celebrate the Evolution Championship Series, more commonly known as Evo, in Las Vegas this August, one developer was particularly prominent and prolific at this year’s event: Arc System Works. The Japanese video game studio had three games represented at the tournament’s main stage…

Not even the most snobby, most contrarian cineaste would seriously argue that Steven Spielberg is not one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Likewise not even the biggest fan of wacky comedies would argue that Jerry Zucker, who co-wrote and co-directed Airplane!, and co-wrote and produced The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police…

Just a year after its launch, the 2021 fighting game Guilty Gear Strive had already become the best-selling title in the Arc System Works franchise’s entire history. Four years after its launch, Guilty Gear Strive has gone on to sell over 3 million copies worldwide, with over 3.5 million users worldwide, and the hit game…

This article contains spoilers for The Gilded Age season 3 episode 8. While The Gilded Age season 3 followed several romances, the clear standout in terms of sheer swoonworthiness and hardships overcome is the courtship between Peggy Scott (Denée Benton) and Dr. William Kirkland (Jordan Donica).  Episode 5 started with a lovely baseball game date…