Lioness Season 3 Review: The Mission Comes Home
The third season’s first cut is from catastrophe to “Six Months Earlier,” and the edit does half the season’s interrogating...
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Plant Nico’s parasol into a wall, pull away, and she fires across the screen like a stone leaving a slingshot. The same tool can then become a shield, glider, pogo stick, boat, firearm, or blunt instrument. Spica Adventure builds nearly every good idea it has around that umbrella, which explains how a brief arcade platformer from Taito’s mid-2000s period can still feel mechanically distinctive. The game began as a 2003 mobile release before moving into Japanese arcades. Its modern port marks its first wide international appearance, bringing the original 4:3 arcade version alongside a widescreen mode with simplified controls and...

The first listeners in Ken Kwapis’ documentary do what nearly everyone does when “My Pal Foot Foot” reaches them: they search for a stable rhythm, fail to find one, then look around as if someone has altered gravity. One calls the music nightmarish. Another hears something primitive. Their faces move through amusement, irritation, and a faint panic that the song may never end. This is the right entrance to We Are the Shaggs, because explanation would only dull the initial shock. Dorothy “Dot,” Betty, and Helen Wiggin made music that seems to disobey every agreement a song usually makes with...

Science documentaries often explain invisible forces with diagrams or polished digital animation. Phenomena takes the opposite route. Josef Gatti puts matter under pressure, points a camera at the reaction, and waits for physics to reveal its own imagery. Expanded from a series of musical shorts later shown by ABC, Gatti’s first feature divides the universe into ten chapters, including light, matter, energy, gravity, sound, electromagnetism, entropy, and life. The structure sounds like a school syllabus, yet the film rarely behaves like a lesson. Gatti works inside a backyard shed filled with microscopes, petri dishes, synthesizers, magnets, and whatever material he...

Gloria can turn one Instagram like into a complete theory of romantic betrayal before Nick has finished sleeping beside her. She studies old photographs of him with his ex-girlfriend Kaylinn, assigns motives to every pose, and treats a comment beneath a post like intercepted evidence. Chelsea Devantez’s Basic, expanded from her 2020 short, understands the comic potential of this behavior because it also understands the fear underneath it. Gloria is not searching for information. She is searching for proof that she will be abandoned. Ashley Park makes that distinction visible. Gloria’s accusations arrive at full volume, yet Park keeps showing...

Rachel Taparjan’s adoption was framed publicly before she had any chance to frame it herself. Archival television footage shows the British couple who brought her from a Romanian orphanage speaking of their new daughter after the death of their biological child. The words are affectionate, yet the idea of replacement hangs over them. A home has opened, but it has opened around an absence. Something Familiar places that private wound inside a larger history. Taparjan was born after Nicolae Ceaușescu’s rule had turned reproduction into state policy and filled Romanian institutions with abandoned children. Her later life in Teesside belongs...

DragonSword: Awakening asks a strange design question: what happens when a gacha game loses the gacha after most of its systems are already built? Hound13’s answer is a $30 action RPG where all nineteen heroes can be earned through play, yet level caps, repeatable resource dungeons, daily world bosses, and layered currencies still dictate the pace. The game takes place in Orbis, sixty years after six heroes defeated the Origin Dragon. Lute, a young healer traveling toward the kingdom, is pulled into Johnny’s mercenary crew alongside Castella and Aria. Their search for the surviving heroes gradually exposes a gap in...
The third season’s first cut is from catastrophe to “Six Months Earlier,” and the edit does half the season’s interrogating...
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Read moreDetailsVincent Pastore, the actor whose portrayal of mob informant Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on "The Sopranos" made him one of television's most recognizable wiseguys, has died at his home in the Bronx. He was 80. A neighbor found him Saturday. His manager, Robert Attermann, said Pastore had represented him for...
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Read morePlant Nico’s parasol into a wall, pull away, and she fires across the screen like a stone leaving a slingshot. The same tool can then become a shield, glider, pogo...
The first listeners in Ken Kwapis’ documentary do what nearly everyone does when “My Pal Foot Foot” reaches them: they search for a stable rhythm, fail to find one, then...
Science documentaries often explain invisible forces with diagrams or polished digital animation. Phenomena takes the opposite route. Josef Gatti puts matter under pressure, points a camera at the reaction, and...
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