Movie Reviews ”Superb performances from Cynthia Erevio and Ariana Grande tell a moving story of two imperfect friends irrevocably changed by each other.”
Movie review: Jurassic World Rebirth ”A pleasant tropical cruise and a spot of phlebotomy on some enormous man-eating lizards… What could possibly go wrong?”
Movie reviews: The Bad Guys 2, F1, & The Naked Gun This month, our OG Tumbly movie reviewer has graciously dusted off her critic’s cap for a special cameo!
Movie Reviews: August 2025 ”Messy, haphazard Thunderbolts* may well be what you get if you order The Avengers from Wish.com.”
Song Review: ‘Warm Slime’ by Osees ”It’s thirteen minutes long, but it manages to keep the listener interested the whole time with its fuzzed-up guitar sounds, chugging bassline, and wild chants about summertime and the sky.”
Movie Reviews: Ash & Sinners ”Perhaps a brief escape into someone else's terror gives us respite from our own.”
Movie reviews: Black Bag & Mickey 17 “Another film in which Bong Joon Ho champions the ‘little guy’ (and does so with a grim smile)…”
Movie reviews for April: Flow and Complete Unknown “Flow is one of those incredibly rare films which proceeds from a creative vision so abstract that it transcends the medium itself…”
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. "
