Lemon Face/Lion Face: Helena Bonham Carter

I went to high school during a very particular period where the forces of Tim Burton's filmography, Hot Topic's monetizing of "non-conformity" aesthetic, and the normal…

Casual Friday - Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

I've played Animal Crossing games. I know Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing is a friend of mine. And Nintendo, I'm here to tell you, this mobile app game...well, it's still A…

Letterboxd Review - Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Shared cinematic universes don't work unless they come together organically. Trying to make one good film with the partial blueprints of an eight-film series is folly, pure and simp…

Casual Friday: Roller Coaster Tycoon Touch

I adored the original Roller Coaster Tycoon, much more than Theme Park, which in all its iterations has always focused more on the winning and losing aspects of the simulator and less …

Lemon Face/Lion Face: Jet Li

Did your house have a preferred martial arts actor? Were you a Jackie Chan household, or was it Chuck Norris or bust? Somewhere around 2000, my family stumbled upon Jet Li's foray in…

Letterboxd Review: Everything or Nothing (2012)

Among the several things that I planned out for 2017, including this blog site and the return of the Media Sandwich podcast, I made it my mission to watch all of the James Bond films so…

Casual Friday: Deep Space Battle VR

Virtual Reality is a cheap gimmick. In the gaming world, VR isn't even the equivalent of 3D viewing in a cinema...it's more like Smell-o-Vision. But, at the risk of sounding exac…

Treated and Released: Peter Pan (Dec. 25, 2003)

The Peter Pan story has a very colored history of feature adaptations. Disney's animated version in the 1950s has done quite a bit to keep the property alive, and I'm betting St…

Letterboxd Review: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Detective stories these days tend to settle in one of two very distinct camps: the ones where the crime and the suspects and the modus operandi take center stage, and the more hardboiled…

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