Film festivals are fascinating. On the one hand, you have days like yesterday, when Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness, Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, and Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer provided three of the best films of the festival, back-to-back-to-back. On the other hand, you have days like today, in which the quality was decidedly… rockier.
This...
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A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Will Cruz, checking out Little Kitty, Big City!
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Hey folks!
You're all invited to our six-month celebration event for Second Wind on May 30th LIVE on YouTube.
New announcements, teasers for upcoming things, raffling off some game consoles, giving away a ton of game codes, releasing a new set of merch and more!
We'll be streaming for 9 hours straight, playing a variety of games with the community, continuing the Dokapon Kingdom campaign and just having a good time.
We can't wait to see you there and showcase what w...
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So, this was a pretty good day at Cannes, all things considered.
Let’s talk about Cannes as the starting pistol on the Best Picture race. This makes a certain amount of sense. The festival occurs a few months after the Oscars, and it tends to be a great marketplace for films. It’s a handy opportunity for studios and critics to identify potential frontrunners in the year ahead. It helps that...
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This week on Firelink, Marty, Nick, and Frost discuss the recent wave of excellent indie games we've been getting this year.
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A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Jesse Galena, checking out Dread Delusion!
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With the third day of Cannes, things are really heating up. It’s a pretty big day for the festival, featuring press screenings and premieres of fairly significant features.
Of course, the biggest event of the day – and one of the biggest events of the festival – is the premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’ Megalopolis (★★☆☆☆). Nearly half a century a...
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A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Marty Sliva, this time reviewing Simogo's Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.
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We're in contact with Patreon now on the Paypal payment issues and their tech team is investigating, with hopes that it's resolved before the weekend.
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A new episode of Unpacked is now available!
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The first full day of the festival is still a warm-up phase. Talent and press are still arriving and getting settled, and the other smaller sections of the program - Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight - are just warming up. The big ticket items really start tomorrow, with critics’ screenings of George Miller’s Furiosa, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, and Andrea Arn...
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This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available!
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Hello! So, this year I’m going to the Cannes International Film Festival. It’s my first time, and I’m very excited. It’s a real “film critic bucket list” thing.
We thought it might be worth running a diary on the Patreon covering the films that I’ll be catching while here, in case people were interested. Plans are for the diary to run roughly daily, looking back on each day’s fi...
2024-05-15 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, Frost, and Marty discuss the past, present, and future of secrets in video games.
2024-05-14 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Marty Sliva, this time reviewing Crow Country.
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This week's episode of Cold Take is now available!
2024-05-13 15:01:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Doctor Who has always had a complicated relationship to the United States.
The show is uniquely British in its aesthetics and sensibilities, to the point that the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) travels around time and space inside a big blue police box, an arti...
2024-05-13 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The classic Planet of the Apes franchise, running across five films from the original film in 1968 through to Battle for the Planet of the Apes in 1973, is a fascinating snapshot of how film franchises used to operate.
These days, there’s an assumption of inflation from one film to the next, what Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) described as “escalation” in the closing...
2024-05-12 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Jess Hoops reviewed INDIKA for Bytesized this week!
2024-05-11 22:21:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Dev Heads! A brand-new podcast from Second Wind hosted by JM8, Tina Sanchez and Michael "Mikee" Tsarouhas focused on the games industry, completely hosted by game development professionals!
2024-05-11 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Join us at Noon CT today for the premiere of our newest podcast, Dev Heads!
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This week's episode of Design Delve is now available!
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a story of decline. As if to signal this idea, the film opens with a funeral pyre, a memorial to the great ape Caesar (Andy Serkis), the chimpanzee protagonist of the trilogy that began with Rise of the Planet of the Apes and who led his brethren to freedom. His body is cremated, and much of the movie that follows is about the degradati...
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This week on Firelink, Marty, KC, and Frost discuss Microsoft... and their baffling decisions.
2024-05-09 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Marty Sliva reviewed Animal Well this week for Bytesized!
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This week's episode of Semi-Ramblomatic is now available!
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On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, Frost, and Marty discuss what goes into a good video game villain, and where some games stumble.
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This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available!
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