Observer: System Redux Review (Nintendo Switch 2)
I had no idea that this game existed. Like, I have seen it before but never stopped to smell its cybernetic roses before. And quite frankly, that was my loss. Observer – System Redux from developer Bloober Team is a cyberpunk noir mystery that plays off a roughed-up and scared world, in the same vein as Blade Runner, where hope is in short supply, as is about everything else that humanity needs. T...[Read More]
The Big Combo 4k
“A cornerstone of American film noir, The Big Combo remains one of the genre’s most visually striking and uncompromising works. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy), the film follows obsessive police lieutenant Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) as he wages a personal crusade against the elusive and sadistic crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). Driven by equal parts justice and desire, Diamond’s p...[Read More]
Blade Runner 2049 (4K)
Thirty-five years later and the sequel is more perfect (it’s possible) than the first film. Official Synopsis Three decades after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing f...[Read More]
The Yakuza
“Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan – and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. He knows there’s a right way to approach the brutal underworld. And he knows there’s one thing powerful mobsters respect: greater power. Robert Mitchum is Kilmer in this haunting East-meets-West-head-on thriller powered by a team of heavy Hollywoo...[Read More]