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The dog days of summer, when all your favorite shows are off the air. Late August, when it seems like you haven’t seen anything good and new on TV in months. If you’re looking for…
The dog days of summer, when all your favorite shows are off the air. Late August, when it seems like you haven’t seen anything good and new on TV in months. If you’re looking for…
When I first wrote about Nier about a month ago (original article here), I called attention to its music, its minimalist storytelling, its pastiche of familiar titles and genres, and its flawed brilliance. When I…
America’s favorite pastime used to be baseball, but these days it’s making fun of stuff we don’t know anything about. I’ve never watched an episode of The Jersey Shore, but in the right company, it’s…
It’s not a bad idea, really. These days, it’s easier than ever to publish a book, and it’s conceivable that you can create an amazing novel and publicize it into the hands of readers entirely…
Some twist endings are satisfying, and some aren’t. But some make you want to watch the whole movie over again with a new perspective. Finding out that, “Luke, I am your father!” is a pretty…
At the risk of sounding obvious, there’s a reason most animated shows are animated. Animation is its own visual medium, and as the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie showed, it’s not one that particularly needs…
A funny thing happened when I started looking for my own games. Having listened to Unreality readers, and thoroughly enjoyed the best of the best of the last generation’s console games, I turned inward. “Okay,…
By the time you read this, the USMNT will be less than an hour away from playing Germany in the World Cup. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not terribly important, and as a…
If there’s one thing that’s been a constant theme for big-budget Hollywood films in the last decade, it’s that it seems like the industry is running desperately low on new material. For every Inception there…