Movie reviews for February: Conclave & Wicked “…The film [Wicked] rages at the othering of minorities, at the suppression and extermination of voices that encourage critical thinking and question propaganda, at totalitarian rule by the propagation of a Big Lie.”
Movie reviews for January: Gladiator II and Sunset Road “Krupin’s script is effervescent and fruity on the palette.”
Brian Griffin Eats Local: I went vegan for a day. “I have personally been responsible for consuming the lower half of about 5,000 birds, and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet.”
Golden Roll Sushi "I have forgotten more of them than I remember. However, there are some exceptions, and this is one of them."
Movie reviews for November: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice & Speak No Evil "This movie is Vincent Price’s jet-black comfy slippers..."
Romulus and Borderlands “The lightning of the 1979 original Alien has remained unbottled—until now, perhaps.”
Brian Griffin Eats Local: KC's Biscuits & BBQ “I believe that something magical happens when you take your time.”
Movie reviews for September: Despicable Me and Deadpool & Wolverine "It's sobering to realize that we are now almost 30 years into the age of CGI-animated feature films..."
Movie reviews: Civil War & Frozen Empire "...It's a moment that stays with the viewer long after the credits have rolled, and deliberately so."
Play more games! "Come out and try some games at one of our events, and maybe you’ll find something you want to take home to your friends and family!"
Movie reviews: Dune Part 2 & One Love "There was a time when Frank Herbert’s monumental 1965 sci-fi novel Dune was considered unfilmable."
Double Take: TWO REVIEWS OF POOR THINGS "A film like Poor Things may receive many accolades for the story's style and being avant-garde."
Game Review: Dorfromantik "When I’d heard that Dorfromantik had won the Spiel de Jahres last year, I was pretty surprised."
A review of women characters written by women authors "As with McFadden’s other novels, nothing is as it seems, and if you think you know what’s going to happen, you’re wrong. "
Monthly Movie Reviews "It’s the tail end of winter — that time of the year when Hollywood goes rummaging in the barrel for undemanding hokum to keep movie-goers distracted from the post-holiday blues..."
A Review of Kristin Hannah’s The Women "The Women, while focused on the experience of women in the Vietnam War, reflects how women have bravely stepped into harm’s way but have been dismissed by history."
Urban Poets Society reviews top TV shows and films of the year "This was a beautiful year for TV and film... here are some of our favorites of the year."
Game Review: Thunder Road: Vendetta "And then there are games like Thunder Road that ask the all-important question: I wonder what would happen if I just ran my car into that other car?"
Movie reviews for February "The brilliance of this film — and it is brilliant — is that, fundamentally, it isn't a monster movie."
Book review: Witness to Addiction “Dr. Gerber’s witness to the addiction of her son is a compelling argument on how to fight America's opioid epidemic.”
Five nights, three Marvels (Movie Reviews) “I never played the video games this movie is based on, so I went in blind regarding whether it’s faithful to the franchise.”
