Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of themselves Volley’d and thunder’d. It should never have happened. Corporal Emile Heskey should never have risked it. The troop, all fully expectant to pull through from their encounter with the downed UFO were silent, trying to grasp the situation in which…
Except when playing Halo: Reach on Legendary. Then they die a lot. When Halo 4 entered the fray and people scrabbled around to try to locate a copy in an attempt to achieve some arbitrary ranking, I chose to return to Reach. This seems like a backwards move considering the game has been out for several…
Some films don’t need to say a lot. They rely on image and close-up to determine the emotional turmoil of a character, or set of characters. Where Helen of Troy’s presence would launch a thousand ships, the washboard of an actor’s face has the potential to project a thousand words. Such is the case with…
Ranking among the greatest of films ever made, Lang uses M as a means to explore the very state in which he resided for the majority of his early film-making career. Amidst swirling and mysterious shadows, the reflective nature of a glass pane and the oneiric, ethereal, brooding atmosphere lies something of the utmost importance:…
At the beginning of Like Water, Pablo Croce’s documentary about MMA superstar Anderson Silva, there’s a snippet of film dedicated to Bruce Lee. In an interview, he describes the process of fighting as fluid and uncontainable, using various tea-related metaphors to further link his philosophies to the film’s eponymous fighter. There’s a lot to say about…
A child sits patiently, waiting, his eyes brimming with hope and expectation. He has yet to experience pain and suffering, naive in his contemplation for that constant positivity. The child cries, his father’s hand still emotionally imprinted on his left cheek. As he weeps he starts to hurt, his one single idol self-combusting after the…
Pixels In The Myst 