In case you missed it, last week The Young Folks launched its official “Star Wars” podcast: Tosche Station! Every Tuesday, you can join Alex Suffolk and Jordan Decker to discuss all the news, rumors, theories, analyses and everything else pertaining…
Video Game Review: “The Witness”
One of video games’ biggest modern debacles is fighting for recognition as a proper form of art. At the forefront of this fight is Jonathon Blow, the programmer-designer who broke out with the critically-acclaimed indie puzzle game “Braid” in 2008.…
Is Rey from ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ a “Mary Sue”?
SPOILER WARNING! But the movie has been out for over three weeks now, haven’t you seen it at least twice already? The general consensus with Rey, the hero of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is that she kicks a lot…
Video Game Review: ‘Star Wars: Battlefront’
Developer: DICE Publisher: Electronic Arts (EA) Format: PC, PS4 (reviewed), Xbox One Released: November 17, 2015 As a kid, I was always pretending to be in the “Star Wars” universe, whether it was swishing around a lightsaber, or zooming…
Video Game Review: ‘Fallout 4’
Developer: Bethesda Publisher: Bethesda Format: PC, PS4 (reviewed), Xbox One Released: November 10, 2015 It was a stellar moment finally emerging from the darkness and isolation that I’d been holed up in for so long. The beams of sunlight…
10 Things From the ‘Star Wars’ Prequel Trilogy that Were Actually Good
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is just around the corner now, and it seems like one of the reasons everyone is so excited for it is that it feels like a return to the proper form of the original…
Movie Review: ‘Pay the Ghost’
It might be strange to say, but I’m actually disappointed that this movie wasn’t as bad as I thought it could be. When Nicolas Cage isn’t giving a good performance a la “Leaving Las Vegas,” he’s giving a hilariously bad…
