A timeless musical journey through the evolution of man and its different forms of emotional expression. This is how I would define an experience like Good Shepherds, the documentary/concert/dramatization directed by Curt M. Faudon, who has taken a basic premise and turned it into something much more complex and relevant. But the method used by
Similar to other great composers, Hurwitz builds upon the themes and passages, the maneuvers and bags of tricks that have long interested him, by combining the tenets of hot jazz with modern patterns and lively rhythms to vocalize the sweat, grime, and majesty of the 1920s and 1930s. You can hear his interests on the
Photoshop is my true Elden Ring, and I haven’t gotten gud yet.Image: FromSoftware / Kotaku In recent years, it’s become harder and harder for me to make the kinds of in-depth, year-end personal best lists that I once prided myself on. That newfound difficulty is for one reason: I’m not playing as many games. This
2022 was the year of Elden Ring, of Miyazaki, of Malenia. The highly anticipated FromSoftware title held the industry by its throat for months, dominating the conversation around difficulty, damage scaling, and player builds (including everyone’s favorite nepo baby, Elon Musk). It took over streaming, it renamed every animal ‘dog,’ it created legends. After over
Character arcs should be the fuel of every film that follows a certain logic and is enclosed in a specific genre. Unless we’re talking about Lynch, there should be a presentation of a conflict that’s resolved at a certain point of the narrative. In any case, logic should be part of whatever structure you put
As always, video games had plenty to be sorry for this year. Big delays, busted launches, offensive remarks, you name it. None of us are perfect. Everyone’s trying to do better. Except for Babylon’s Fall. No second chances there. Read more… Source link
Photo: Cole Bursto (Getty Images) What did Kotaku readers click on this year? Once you see the list of 2022’s top 10 posts below, the topics likely won’t be too surprising. Things like Pokémon, hentai, and fast food are practically internet catnip. You might read about them even as you curse your curiosity about these
Image: Shutterstock / Image Square Enix / XSEED / Kotaku / durantelallera (Shutterstock) The line between an amazing video game name and a terrible one is nebulous. Some game names try so hard that they loop back around and become good, despite being objectively bad. Some game names are good only in that they use
George MacDonald’s The Light Princess book is a big theme throughout the film. I found that story and the various iterations really fascinating. I love how you integrated it into the film. There was one line of that book that I had written down somewhere. I kept a notebook where I would just write down sentences
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.” –Hunter S. Thompson In much the same way that ancient peoples looked up at the night sky and imagined other worlds, the first video game developers looked at a thingy on a screen and imagined it moving really fast. Who could blame them?