The One Battle After Another box office is in itself a narrative that reflects the work. The movie came out September 26, 2025 and as of mid-April 2026, it’s pulled in $72.9M in North America and a worldwide take of $212.9 million. Despite being director Paul Thomas Anderson’s (PTA) biggest cash winner, One Battle After […]
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A Samurai in Time Mini-Review
This is a fun and endearing time-travel drama that features some solid performances and thoughtful angles. I wouldn’t say it merits five stars, but it’s definitely worth a watch especially for viewers familiar with and fond of the samurai TV serial genre. It takes a bit of an extreme turn at the end, in my […]
A User Experience Design Case Study
Today’s user experience design case study, kids, is this painful screen from leading Windows utility Hard Disk Sentinel version 6.30. This is how NOT to design an interface in your app or application when you could’ve made your tool easy and intuitive, people. Danger danger. Now we all love looking at SMART data need to […]
How to Trim Cat Nails
Luc Besson’s “Lucy”: Laughably Awful
Today we’ve got a three-sentence micro review of Luc Besson’s Scarlett Johansson starrer “Lucy.” Besson is known as the director of blockbusters like “Nikita,” “Taken,” and “The Fifth Element.” Just awful. The setup is not bad, and then it just turns into a double-whammy of the worst pseudoscience and the most gawdawful CGI, creating an […]
MLB Realignment: Manfred Strikes Again
So… Rob Manfred wants to expand the baseball universe, add some new teams for Charlotte and Portland, and… switch a bunch of teams between divisions? Here’s a possible, heavily geographically-weighted configuration from Fox Sports: Mets, Phillies, Nationals, Pirates, Guardians, Brewers, Braves, Marlins to the AL. White Sox, Astros, Rockies, Royals, Angels to the NL. The […]
Strange Days
We saw Strange Days for the first time last week at the historic Paramount. Interesting flick, especially with the introductory context provided by our curator: this was the director Kathryn Bigelow’s “statement” project (her reward for the commercial success of the Keanu Reeves vehicle “Point Break”) which she filmed from a script co-written by James […]
The Hit Man Movie Review Ecology Is Broken
Seen the Hit Man movie reviews lately? This 2023 Richard Linklater movie, credited with launching Glen Powell’s career, somehow got a giant “Get Out of Jail Free” pass for some mysterious reason, and no one seems to be paying attention. This amusing but flawed and ethically challenged movie is rated 95% on Rotten Tomatoes (89% […]
Moana 2, The Substance, and Pearl Compared, in Brief
Your game writer has a few holiday movie viewings to dissect: THE SUBSTANCE, PEARL, and MOANA 2. Of these, Coralie Fargeat’s THE SUBSTANCE is the most buzzy and the least worth your time. This by-the-numbers overlong feature rails against Hollywood’s beauty and youth vampirism, but offers nothing as an alternative, and despite Demi Moore’s best […]
Betting Odds: U.S. President?
2024 Presidential Race and Citizen Action Items We’re betting you weren’t expecting this odd and odious outcome for U.S. president a year ago. It’s 2024 now, and boy does it feel like a snippet out of Orwell. In 2023, Trump was besieged by debts and losing court cases. Some of the malfeasance just boggles the […]