Review: Gone Home

Gone Home Developer: The Fullbright Company Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux Release Date: August 15, 2013 Gone Home is a bit of a challenge to write about for an audience that hasn’t played it yet. Everything that makes it special is in the experience of playing it and unfolding its world and narrative piece by piece,…

Gojira (1954)

Probably the most unusual thing about Godzilla’s first film is that for several decades the majority of Western Godzilla fans had never seen it. The first film in question, of course, is Gojira, released in 1954 in Japan. What American audiences had seen instead was Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, a recut version of the…

D23: A Whole Lot of Disney Going On

D23: all is well in the land that Disney built.  That’s the gist of a full-day’s visit to D23 2013.  To be fair, D23 is an unusual experience if you’ve never been, and probably if you’ve been before, as it continues to evolve. Not quite a general pop culture convention, and yet something more than…

Trek 3: Not More of the Same -?

With word out confirming Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the core writing & producing team behind the 2009 reboot of Star Trek and its sequel, Into Darkness, will be back for a third installment, the question immediately comes up for filmgoers: is this really a good thing? I may be in the minority here, but…