This is a personal retrospective of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty !General spoilers for the Metal Gear Solid franchise below! It’s weird to think that it’s been 15 years since the release of MGS 2 here in the states,…
TV Review: Supernatural 12×05 “The One You’ve Been Waiting For”
Supernatural brought back Hitler this week. There’s a metaphor here somewhere. This episode is… weird. There are some moments that really worked, and some moments that felt like a missed opportunity. Back in season eight, in an episode titled “Everybody Hates…
TV Review: Frequency 1×06 “Deviation”
Once again, it’s the small moments I enjoyed most about Frequency‘s sixth episode, “Deviation.” The large focus is Nightingale again, and while this ongoing investigation can be interesting at times — the episode about Eva, for example — it often feels…
Book Review: “Dessert First” by Dean Gloster
Dessert First by Dean Gloster is a perfect example of why I don’t read novels that feature cancer as their main theme. After I finally finished reading Dessert First, my tear ducts were sore from crying, and I honestly felt…
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets releases first teaser
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the wordily titled and eagerly awaited new film from director Luc Besson, released its first teaser. The trailer contains little dialogue and focuses on imaginative visual effects. The film is similar appearance-wise to 2014’s…
MTV Announces Transgender Awareness Week Programming
MTV announced yesterday the programming they have scheduled in honor of Transgender Awareness Week. Programming that will highlight the stories and struggles of the transgender community and ways in which we can all be allies and messengers of love and…
Movie Review: The Love Witch
“The Love Witch” is a deceptively simple movie that taps into a whole lot of complex ideas. Of course, the fact that it’s an homage to the Technicolor sexploitation films of the 1960s means it touches on the issues it…