This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Five years ago, I wrote a piece about Interstellar and the death of the astronaut myth. …
This was a pretty interesting year for movies. For me it was the year I realized that Amazon Prime and Netflix are great for trawling for fun but ultra low budget movies, slightly past due blockbusters and interesting middle ground stuff. I saw a lot of movies through them, including Parallels, The Reconstruction of William …
This is Adr1ft. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSzHh7IG6nM] It’s due out later this year. It and No Man’s Sky are, at this point, in a runoff as to which monopolizes my time first. Honestly, Adr1ft may have a slight edge too. Firstly because it looks like a visceral, up close sort of gameplay experience and secondly because I …