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Evil Dead Rise movie review & film summary (2023)

The latest in the series, “Evil Dead Rise,” comes from Irish writer/director Lee Cronin, whose 2019 feature debut “The Hole in the Ground” also revolves around sinkholes and mommy issues. Cronin’s grimy sensibility is much closer to that of remake director Fede Alvarez than Raimi’s live-action cartoons. But he does share one key thing with

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Little Richard: I Am Everything movie review (2023)

The first “Little Richard Awards Show Moment” was at the 1988 Grammys, when he and Buster Poindexter (aka David Johansen, former frontman of the New York Dolls) presented the award for Best New Artist. Little Richard, resplendent in a shiny brown suit, glanced at Johansen’s towering pompadour and declared, “I used to wear my hair

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Somewhere in Queens movie review (2023)

While we’re watching Leo dog-paddle through a manure pit he filled up all by himself, there’s a much more interesting and fresh story happening in the background about a modestly talented high school basketball player who discovers, while suffering and flailing through his first serious relationship, that he enjoys cathartically writing about what he’s going through, and

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Gaming

Street Fighter 6’s RPG Mode Will Let You Fight A Refrigerator

As a series dating back to the 1980s, you normally expect a new Street Fighter game to play it safe. Sure, every generation or two there might be a visual shift, but Street Fighter is Street Fighter, it began as a 1v1 fighting tournament and shall forever be one. Until, that is, Street Fighter 6

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Gaming

The Kotaku Re-Review In 2023

Saying “history will not be kind to [thing or person]” is a practice that has always fascinated me. Who are we to judge the future’s thoughts on the topics of today? That’s the future’s problem. All we can do in the present, as historians or otherwise, is evaluate what has come before us. It’s impossible

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Gaming

The Cringiest Weed References In Video Games

Video games and weed have enjoyed a lovely relationship for decades now, entangling themselves throughout history in both accidental and purposeful ways. For the last few decades, the two have been seen as activities for lowlifes, things to be avoided. Now that each is established, acceptable, and the basis of billion-dollar industries, the two hobbies

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Gaming

Diablo IV’s Super-Popular Beta Returns For One More Weekend

Blizzard announced that Diablo IV’s super-popular beta will get one final playable weekend from May 12 through May 14, letting you take another trip to Hell and Sanctuary before the action-RPG’s imminent June 6 release date. 8 Minutes Of Diablo IV’s Character Creator Read More: Diablo IV Is The Perfect Head Empty, Kill Shit Game

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Gaming

Every Pokémon Card I’ve Gotten From My Local Weed Shop, Ranked

I’m not exactly up to speed on laws governing the sale of marijuana here in New York, but as a way of circumventing certain restrictions, there are some shops here where, rather than buying weed, you’re “technically” buying something else and getting some weed, gratis, with your purchase. This is how I wound up with

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Gaming

The Resident Evil 4 Remake Totally Failed Ashley Graham

“Leon! Heeeelp!” In 2005, Ashley Graham, preening president’s daughter and your game companion throughout most of Resident Evil 4, was best known for this booming, blubbering outcry, and second best known for the moving-car-flashes of white underwear some fans have dubiously obsessed over for nearly two decades. The supposedly more socially conscious 2023 Resident Evil

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