AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatar2 hours agoAbigail turns Let the Right One In into a frenetic horror comedyverified_publisherPolygon - Austen GoslinVampires are some of our most malleable monsters. They can be lonely kids, lonely teens, misunderstood lovers, mass murderers, leather-clad drifters, regular dudes, or just about anything in between. All that flexibility (and the ability, often, to pass as human) means vampires can also come as a …
AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatar2 days agoPepper Grinder is a fast, fluid platformer you shouldn’t missverified_publisherPolygon - Nicole CarpenterPepper Grinder doesn’t need any words. There’s no need for dialogue or instructions because what this game entails is all in the name. Shipwrecked and with her treasure stolen, Pepper’s objective is clear: Grind — literally — her way through a pirate-plagued world to get back her prize. Pepper …
AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatar3 days ago2024’s funniest comedy runs silent movies through a video game filterverified_publisherPolygon - Pete VolkAmerican comedy has strayed from the light of its ancestors. Gone are the days of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers, when jokes and visual surprises flew at a mile a minute and were matched by the cinematic creativity and physical daring of the auteurs behind them. Instead, the …
AvatarPolygon5 days agoThe poo-stained humanity of Sasquatch Sunsetverified_publisherPolygon - Matt PatchesGross-out humor reached its apex in 2010’s Jackass 3D, when the boys slingshotted a ripened port-a-potty 100 feet into the air, and a bungee-cord bounce sent fecal matter splattering all over Steve-O — in glorious 3D, no less! That was it. There was nowhere else to go. Or so I believed. Sasquatch …
AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatar6 days agoCivil War ditches present politics in favor of gripping action and emotionverified_publisherPolygon - Tasha RobinsonA version of this review ran in March 2024 in conjunction with the movie’s original coverage embargo. It has been updated and republished for the theatrical release. In an era of divisive, high-stakes U.S. politics, it isn’t surprising to see so many people online responding to the entire concept of …
AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatar6 days agoArcadian’s shocking aliens can’t fix its criminal Nicolas Cage shortageverified_publisherPolygon - Tasha RobinsonInside all of us are two wolves. This is true for everyone except Nicolas Cage. Inside Nicolas Cage are two Nicolas Cages: the somber, dialed-down Nic Cage of Pig and Leaving Las Vegas, and the screaming, manic Nic Cage of Vampire’s Kiss, The Wicker Man, and Mom and Dad. Which one wins? The one he …
AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatar6 days agoChallengers is the sensual, satisfying cure for sexless cinemaverified_publisherPolygon - Tasha RobinsonAmerica is on a puritanical streak. Politically, individual states and the federal government keep looking for ways to completely outlaw abortion (and birth control, and health care for trans people, and books), while on social media, there’s been one hand-wringing discussion after another about …
AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatarThe Thing board game gives you too many sad, cold, and lonely ways to dieverified_publisherPolygon - Tasha RobinsonJohn Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing ends with its few remaining characters in a desperate spot. Faced with an alien creature that can infect, assimilate, and emulate human bodies, the survivors don’t know who among them might secretly be an alien, or whether their pyrrhic efforts have eliminated …
AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatarThe Fallout TV series is more like a great sequel to the games than just an adaptationverified_publisherPolygon - Austen GoslinFallout is a franchise that’s held together by tone just as much as any unifying story beats or canon. The series’ distinct post-apocalyptic vision of an America that never escaped the wide eyes, fake smiles, and faker optimism of the Cold War has become iconic, and its version of Americana shot …
AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatarKingdom Death: Monster’s massive new expansion is just too much damn workverified_publisherPolygon - Charlie HallKingdom Death: Monster, among the highest-earning crowdfunded board games of all time, is a rare beast in part because of its price point, which currently stands at $420. It’s also because of production issues, meaning that the game has been out of print for long periods of time ever since its …
AvatarPolygonAvatarAvatarDragon’s Dogma 2 is all about the journey — of figuring out how to even play itverified_publisherPolygon - Michael McWhertorThe blemishes of beloved video games are sometimes referred to as their “jank.” The term encapsulates things in a game that may be slightly broken or inherently peculiar — aspects that should be detrimental to the experience, but aren’t. Ideally, these broken bits are overshadowed by a game’s …
AvatarPolygonApple’s Girls State was shot at the perfect time to be absolutely infuriatingverified_publisherPolygon - Tasha RobinsonBack in 2020, filmmaking partners Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss released Boys State, a startling, compulsively watchable documentary that packs all of America’s political flaws into one competitive event. Embedding themselves in the 2018 Texas edition of Boys State, an annual leadership event where …