In video games, it can sometimes feel like it’s tough to find something truly ambitious. That’s understandable, undertaking a bold design or gameplay mechanic without big money backing those ideas is a daunting process. That’s on top of the fact…
The Film Canon: Casablanca (1942)
Winner of three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director and Screenplay) and responsible for some of the most quoted movie lines of all time, Casablanca is well deserving of its status as a silver screen classic. The movie is based on…
Out of the Past: “The Maltese Falcon” (1941)
It is not made of gold or bedazzled by jewels; if you saw it in a pawn shop you wouldn’t give it a second glance. But, it is the stuff that dreams are made of and worth its weight in…
The Film Canon: Pépé le Moko (1937)
Nestled deep in the heart of Algiers is a labyrinthine honeycomb of passages and staircases. Terraces and ceilings melt together into a giant roof that stretches in all directions for miles; streets become roads, roads become alleys, alleys become dead…