Joey Rambles

Have you ever played a demo for a game and loved it to bits, only to play the final game and feel disappointed? That’s how it felt playing Pepper Grinder, the new title from Devolver Digital. While I was seriously looking forward to it since the demo’s release during Next Fest 2024, the game, unfortunately, itself isn’t as fun as the demo suggested it would be. There’s still a lot to like, but every time I play this game, I […]

On March 10, 2024, the day commonly referred to as Mario Day, Nintendo announced a new movie to follow The Super Mario Bros. Movie, their billion-dollar success with the animation studio Illumination in 2023. They noticeably avoided using the word “sequel”, though, and instead said that they wanted to expand the film’s world.

If you were a gamer growing up in the 90s and 2000s, you most likely feel a tinge of nostalgia at seeing the THQ logo. The studio had its original properties, but licensed games were what they were truly known for.

With the second season of the indie animated show The Wingfeather Saga having just premiered last April 5th, it’s pretty incredible to consider how well indie animation has been doing in the 2020s. It’s gotten to the point where it’s especially hard to keep track of the many indie animated shows that are coming out, but there’s a good chance you’ve heard of one or two of these shows, even if you don’t follow indie animation.

A lot of people say that Nintendo is the Disney of video games. If that’s so, then Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda are like The Little Mermaid and The Lion King. The Disney brand would be nothing without them. However, Kid Icarus is more like Treasure Planet. Neither did the best financially nor are they likely to get new entries anytime soon, but they’ve got a devoted cult following and their companies have finally acknowledged them after years […]

Abigail is a film that’s trying so hard to be the next cult horror-comedy, it’s almost a joke itself.

Knuckles barely takes centre stage in his own spin-off show.

There’s nothing quite like a good action blockbuster, and the Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy has been some of the most lauded films of that kind in recent memory. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes serves as a standalone sequel to that trilogy and the first entry of its own trilogy as well. Unfortunately, this new beginning isn’t quite as enthralling or well-structured as one would hope, but there are enough good elements here to make it worth the watch, as well as invoke excitement for the upcoming sequels.

Set in a world where anthropomorphic animals and humans co-exist, Thelma the Unicorn follows a donkey named Thelma (Brittany Howard) who dreams of becoming a star. Unfortunately, nobody gives her the time of day because she’s just an ordinary donkey. However, one day, a series of events ends with Thelma looking like a unicorn. Thelma realizes this could finally be her chance to shine, but her best friend Otis (Will Forte) worries about her and her unicorn disguise.

Walking out of the cinema for Inside Out 2, my friend told me, “As a Psych major, that’s just not how the mind works.” She’s absolutely right; even the younger kids in the audience probably figured that out too. After all, are we really expected to believe Riley never once felt anxious, embarrassed, envious, or bored before she turned 13, or that she’ll only feel nostalgia when she’s much, much older?