• Lonely Planet

    Gravity is astounding and wonderful and still frustratingly short of being flawless.

  • Gorilla Filmmaking

    On Escape from Tomorrow, how Disney works, and why more people seriously need to read David Foster Wallace already.

  • Men Are From World 1-1, Women Are From World 2-2

    What we talk about when we talk about female video game characters

  • Miss Opportunity

    Grand Theft Auto 5, the true death of satire, and giving audiences what you think they want

  • Ms. Representation

    An objection to Strong Female Characters reveals how well-intentioned discussions of gender politics invariably become divisive and unproductive.

  • Paper Chase

    My thoughts on Gone Home and what it reveals about storytelling in video games

  • Sometimes When We Stylus

    A review, more or less, of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, plus a bit of marveling on the current state of tablet computers.

  • Jagermeister

    Pacific Rim has a message, and that message is “shut up and watch.”

  • Like a Super Hero

    I’m not qualified to write a eulogy for Ryan Davis, but I wish I were.

  • Oozma Kappa

    My report on Monsters University

  • Forty-Two

    I’m going to keep insisting that the beard is prematurely gray.

  • Pity the Poor Oppressed Majority

    How do you separate the art from the artist when the artist is such a flatulating asshole? Also: why the hypocrisy that makes me so angry might actually be a harbinger of oncoming poetic justice.