So I’ve Been Playing Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time…
Toys for Bob’s hyper-faithful revival is simultaneously the best and worst Crash Bandicoot game in two decades. Which of those two is entirely dependent on how you play it.
Category: Reviews
Mogul Mowgli
Mogul Mowgli is a hypnotic, complicated, and often bold film only held back from true greatness by an abrupt resolution.
beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers
Fake It Flowers is a promising debut LP that nonetheless sees beabadoobee remain frustratingly on the cusp of greatness.
Schemers
For a film about a punk wheeler-dealer sensibility to music promotion and a climax centred around the chaos of organising a heavy metal show, Dave McLean’s Schemers has more in common with MOR.
Weathering with You (Blu-Ray)
Weathering with You is an absolute mess. An often visually astonishing and idiosyncratic mess, but an absolute mess nonetheless.
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
If you can vibe with its earnest absurdism and sorta-intentional badness, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is a hell of a trip.
The King of Staten Island
The King of Staten Island is exhausting and not in the way that Judd Apatow & Pete Davidson likely intended it to be.
TENET
TENET is a smug, dull, headache-inducing load of sound and fury signifying sod all.
The High Note
Despite suffering from the same identity insecurities as Late Night, The High Note ultimately succeeds as escapist comfort on the strength of its impeccable cast.
Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story
Whilst it could’ve done with more discussion about the games themselves, Pretending I’m a Superman is a surprisingly solid documentary about the Tony Hawk series’ impact on pop and skater culture.
