Month: May 2018

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in Game Boy

“Game Boy” is a weekly column in which I write about being a game developer working in Montreal. You’ll find them all under this category, and it starts here. This coming week will mark my 3rd anniversary of working in the games industry — I moved to Montreal during the first week of May 2015, to start…

True Grit (2010)

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For someone who claims to love westerns so much — and films by the Cohen brothers as well — you’d figure I’d have already seen this, but for some strange and unknown reason I hadn’t gotten around to it. I finally rectified this omission, and I’m sure glad I did. I think it was well…

Batman Ninja

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in Anime, Debaser

This movie is insanely good, and by far the best animated Batman film I’ve seen. Created entirely by a Japanese staff, it’s a Japanese take on the Batman mythos, but with tongue lodged deeply in cheek, and with stunning visuals that although CG feel more like they were taken from traditional paintings (well, inspired by…

Mazinger Z: Infinity

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in Anime, Debaser

The Mazinger Z that I watched when I was a kid was in fact the Grendizer series (that I watched in French as Goldorak), and so although I’m not really familiar with the entire Mazinger series, I was pretty excited to watch this new movie. The main character ends up being Koji Kabuto, who was…

Hell or High Water

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I’ll start by saying that I really liked this movie, but I don’t think I agree with the fact that it gets described as a modern western. I mean, I can see why — it’s set in the south (Texas), in a fairly rural part of the state, with wide-open scenery (on the open road),…

The Revenant

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Yeah, I’m ridiculously late to the party in terms of this film, which is surprising since it’s a genre I love (I mean, it is sort of a western, although the “survival” nature really takes over). The movie did in fact blow me away, and has some of the most amazing and mesmerizing shots I’ve…

Hostiles

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This is a fantastic movie — in fact, if I’d watched it last year, it would have been included in my year-end top 5 list. As I’ve written many times, I love westerns (it’s one of my favorite movie genres) and getting a really good new one is relatively rare. For all its brutality, this…

Black Panther

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What is there to say about this that hasn’t been said already. Yes, it’s incredibly entertaining, incredibly well made, and quite possibly the best Marvel film so far (at least that’s how I feel). I didn’t think it could live up to the hype, but I found myself enjoying it immensely from start to finish,…

Anon

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