By historical standards, television has certainly lightened up a bit in the last fifteen years. If the guys from Mad Men flipped on their 350-lbs Admiral televisions and happened to catch a random episode of,…
When it comes to entertainment, books are my meat and potatoes. Always loved them, always will. I picked up novels at an early age and never stopped consuming them. There are good stories in all…
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,…