In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Thorin Oakenshield has a fever dream in which he drowns in a river of the very gold he sought so desperately. I can think of no visual metaphor to better describe the current state of the Hobbit film franchise.
Based on a true story and set in England in 1939, The Imitation Game brings back to life the behind-the-scenes efforts of mathematician Alan Turing and his team to end the war through means of cracking an āimpossibleā Nazi code called Enigma.
Some novels grab you right away with strong, specific detail, forcing you into the head of a relatable character. Such novels are easy to fall in love with. Alexandra Leggatās The Incomparables is not one of those novels. Its surface is resistant at first, and difficult throughout.
Now that Christmas is over, itās time to start thinking about the next card-giving holiday: Valentineās Day. No longer just a holiday for mushy romantics, Valentineās Day is about to get geeky with Nerdy Words, a new card-making company from Tottenham, Ontario.
Board games based on licensed products are usually not good. They are either a cosmetic upgrade to a classic board game, or a rushed out game with clunky mechanics or gameplay that distances itself from the source material. Being a self-professed Browncoat, I was thrilled to discover this is not the case with Firefly: The Game.
The rules and goals of a game create the framework in which the game can be played. In fact, some board games can become bogged down by vast books of complex rules. But what if there was a game where the rules and goals were constantly changing?
Paying for It is an honest exploration of the taboo world of the Canadian sex trade, free of moral bias or fear-mongering. Through this autobiographical depiction of his experiences, cartoonist Chester Brown provides great insight into his own evolution from fearful first-time customer to very vocal supporter of the legalization of prostitution.
To say that Dragon Age: Inquisition is a huge game would be a vast understatement. If youāre familiar with role-playing games (RPGs), you know that most of the time theyāre very big and let you roam free. This is the largest, longest, and best RPG Iāve ever played.
Kickstarter campaigns come in all different sizes, with various financial goals and backersā rewards, but some evolve over the campaignās duration and become much grander than anyone could expect.
Ursula Pflugās Motion Sickness is a flash novel about a young woman named Penelope. Each of its 55 chapters is told in exactly 500 words, on a single page, and faces a scratchboard drawing by S.K. Dyment. Though Pflugās economical and often poetic writing help to tell the story, the scratchboards give the story its nocturnal ambience. This is appropriate.
