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The debut game by Fire Foot Studios, Kick’n Hell, is tongue in cheek what it’s all about. Players control a no name monk with a decent right push kick. The goal is to bounce off glowy brains onto various platforming challenges until you get to Satan. Let’s review how that went. I’ll start with the positives. The controls are simple and the graphics are nice. You can toggle them to higher pixel blur or no pixel. Naturally, I went with the high definition. The challenge is unique.
Review: Luma Island
I’m going to be transparent, I don’t really care for Stardew Valley, or its clones. I appreciate what it has done for the video game space though. I’m happy for the many fans who found that game, and will keep playing it long after it’s completed. The amount of clones that come out each year continue to bewilder me, but I’m happy that more people are getting into the game development space.
Review: After Light Fades
From Orchid of Redemption, who made Dream of the Star Haven, comes their newest title, After Light Fades. Much like their naming scheme, Orchid of Redemption specializes in complexity. After Light Fades is a puzzle game where players must lead the character through a gate to advance to the next level. Levels are laid out in one dioramic room with a square grid. All of the elements of the puzzle lay inside the room, so there’s no crazy meta Nonary Game business.
Review — The Last Romantic - Geeks Under Grace
Subjectivism is a dirty word when one is discussing matters of religion. Modern philosophy has worked to pathologize religion as mere sense experience with little relation to objective reality, and much of religious sensation has been rendered moot as evidence for the divine.
Review - Shōgun (2024 Miniseries)
I was invited this past February to a television premiere for a new show coming out that I had never heard of. My small Anglican parish was home to some world travelers and educated deacons who were excited about an upcoming adaptation of a popular book I hadn’t heard of, and they wanted to celebrate its premiere. Upon arriving, I was met with the largest spread of expensive sushi and Japanese liquors I’d ever seen, and our host introduced the show while wearing authentic Japanese regalia.
Review – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - Geeks Under Grace
The recent releases of Godzilla Minus One and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters have caused a minor renaissance among the Godzillafandom. Following the previous successes of Shin-Godzilla and Godzilla vs. Kong, the franchise is now in its strongest phase in decades, with both the Japanese and American fanbases energized, and the most recent cinematic release having recently won a Best Visual Effects Oscar; marking the first time the franchise has seen awards season recognition after seven decades.
Can Gamers Go To Heaven?
Stop me if you’ve ever felt something like this before: You’re in line at Gamestop waiting for a new video game or console. You and your friends are excited this game is finally out. Maybe it was for a new Call of Duty game, or you wanted to get a Nintendo Switch. Suddenly, you notice a homeless person in the parking lot outside begging for money, and you realize this person has no home to go back to or someone to care for him.
Review — Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh - Geeks Under Grace
Happy President’s Day! Since 1879, it has been an American tradition to celebrate all 45 men who have served as president (on the date of George Washington’s birthday) as a federal holiday. Unfortunately, this year’s President’s Day is certainly coming amid difficult times, as a difficult election year, partisan squabbling, global wars, and anger continue to boil over on the international stage.
Review - Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters
It is a good time to be a Godzilla fan right now! Godzilla Minus One and its rerelease Godzilla Minus One Minus Color have become one of the biggest blockbusters of the past two months. A new movie, Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, is set to release soon, and AppleTV+’s spin-off television show has proved to be a surprising highlight of recent television.
Review - Ted - Season 1
When Ted was first released in 2012, it marked the beginning of a new stage in the career of animator and comedian Seth MacFarlane. The creator of Family Guy had already made success launching new series like American Dad, but the clout he’d made as one of the most successor showrunners in Hollywood gave him the freedom to launch almost any project he wanted, including a Star Trek parody called The Orville.
Review - Argylle
Director Matthew Vaughn has had quite a decade. Despite major rumors he might end up directing a Superman movie or taking on larger projects, his entire body of work has been consumed by the Kingsmen franchise, with a fourth entry seemingly currently being discussed.
Review – The Last Voyage of the Demeter - Geeks Under Grace
It says something about the modern film landscape when a movie releases on video-on-demand just a month or two after its release date. Sadly, the film industry is in a contracted state where only a few movies per year can earn back their budgets adequately, and many solid films are left to scrape by on limited theatrical interest and video-on-demand rentals.
Review – Asteroid City - Geeks Under Grace
Writer/director Wes Anderson has become ridiculously talented at creating the exact kind of film he is known for making. In the past five years, he’s released three successful films, and that is accounting for two years of pandemic lockdown.
Review – The Sound of Freedom - Geeks Under Grace
There has been a lot of buzz in the past week about the release of the new Angel Studios film The Sound of Freedom, which was released on July 4th and almost immediately earned its budget back through strong word of mouth. The movie almost immediately drew controversy. It outgrossed Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny the Tuesday night it came out, leading many culture warriors to declare the tiny Christian film was outperforming the massive Disney blockbuster.
Review - Mr. Sun's Hatbox - Geeks Under Grace
The life of an Amazon delivery driver is a rough one. Besides working for a company with…questionable work ethics, they have to deal with nature’s most fearsome predator: the consumer. Hell truly hath no fury like a customer scorned. But what if there was a game that took the humble delivery driver and raised them to the level of a special ops agent with one purpose: retrieving a lost package for a customer…at any means necessary.
Review - Padre Pio
If you have ever seen the meme of actor Shia LaBeouf screaming “Say Christ is Lord,” then you are familiar with Padre Pio. The film premiered last September at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival and clips of its most infamous scenes began appearing online, hyping many online Christians with the hope the film was either going to be a sincere story about faith or a goofy performance for the ages. Unfortunately, the film does not accomplish either of those feats.
Review – Cocaine Bear - Geeks Under Grace
Sometimes you can’t be mad at a thing that tells you exactly what it is on the box. A can of Coca-Cola has 39 grams of sugar. A Burger King Whopper has 700 calories. And Cocaine Bear is a movie about a bear that eats cocaine. It’s not the premise you can get mad at or say disappointed you because the entire premise was right there in the title. You know going into this movie you’ll get 90 minutes of cheesy horror/comedy about a cocaine bear. It’s stupid but it delivers.
Review – Horizon: Forbidden West - Geeks Under Grace
I began drafting this review of Horizon: Forbidden West (HFW) soon after concluding the game. The announcement of the PS5-exclusive Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores DLC reminded me that I had some unfinished business with HFW. And by that I mean not just this review; HFW contains more sidequests than even the most dedicated completionist would want to endure.
Classic Review – A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) - Geeks Under Grace
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to an art form is for it to get popular. This is not to say that popular entertainment is bad, but popularity introduces market forces into a creative medium and forces it to bend the knee to marketability. This is why most science fiction nowadays looks like Star Wars and Star Trek and most fantasy looks like Lord of the Rings. When one looks back into the golden age of a medium, though, one sees unmitigated creativity.
Review - Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - Geeks Under Grace
Director Guillermo del Toro has been granted a great gift in the last five years—Oscar clout. The one-time director of films like Hellboy, Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak, Cronos, and more has spent the majority of his career fighting middling box office performances and struggling to get his visionary genre work onto the big screen.
Retro Review – Luther (2003) - Geeks Under Grace
On the liturgical calendar celebrated by Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans, tomorrow is All Saints Day. The day before though is All Hallow’s Eve or the Vigil of All Saints Day—which has traditionally been understood as a Catholic holiday. Halloween also shares a day with another major day in the history of Christianity—Reformation Day.
Review – Black Adam - Geeks Under Grace
The DC Extended Universe has released eleven movies since Man of Steel premiered in 2013. Since then, it has faced some of the most aggressive ups and downs of any major studio franchise. It has also developed one of the most aggressive fandoms of any major studio IP, with fans petitioning the studio four years to get Warner Brothers to release the “Snyder-Cut” of Justice League. I have no real investment in the drama. I like some unpopular DC movies and I don’t like some popular ones.
Monster - Geeks Under Grace
Three years ago, I attended a lecture at St. John Cantius Catholic Church in Chicago with a dear friend of mine. A YouTuber named Jonathan Pageau, with whom I had been casual familiar, was giving some sort of lecture, and I decided to drive in and see it. That lecture turned out to be about Kanye West and the restoration of beauty and sacred art. Pageau is an Orthodox Icon carver, and he puts a lot of thought into the importance of symbolism and the ultimate meaning behind art.
Review - Men - Geeks Under Grace
Writer/director Alex Garland has returned for the first time since early 2018 with his newest film, Men. Whereas his previous outings were science fiction films that offered a level of high concept spectacle to their premise, here he has chosen to work purely in the realm of cerebral abstract horror, à la the likes of Hereditary, Raw and Antichrist.
Classic Review – The Song of Roland (1030AD) - Geeks Under Grace
I return from my extended work-related hiatus of writing classic reviews at last! I’m energized (sort of), full of fresh ideas (sort of), and eager to get the (semi-) regular column rolling once again. Between February and August of 2021, I wrote ten Classic Reviews covering everything from Homer to Ray Bradbury, and I very much want to continue that trend.
Review – Ambulance - Geeks Under Grace
The recent career of Michael Bay has been fascinating. His last theatrical release was Transformers: The Last Knight in 2017, but he has been very busy since then. The Ryan Reynold action film 6 Underground was the most expensive film ever produced by Netflix. Recent efforts to deconstruct and reconsider the filmography of Michael Bay have in some regards revitalized Bay’s reputation among segments of online film fans, who now regard him as an auteur who deserves greater respect.
Review – The Everlasting People - Geeks Under Grace
When I attended the 2021 Chesterton Conference outside of Chicago, I was curious to learn of the existence of Pr. Matthew J. Milliner’s new book The Everlasting People. Milliner is a member of The Marion Wade Center at Wheaton College, a center dedicated to the study of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their various influences. Also among them is G.K. Chesterton, the brilliant catholic journalist and satirist, who has become a lay-saint for many modern Christians.
Review – Morbius - Geeks Under Grace
The latest in Sony Pictures’ efforts to forbade its eventual shuttering and corporate failures is its tedious attempt to try and turn the Spider-Man franchise into a multi-media franchise with spin-offs, sequels, and crossovers with the MCU. They tried this once with the Amazing Spider-Man movies and it failed to take off following the financial disaster of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Now they’re actually having some success getting movies off the ground.
Review – Compartment No. 6 - Geeks Under Grace
The Finnish contribution to the upcoming Academy Awards this weekend is a small-scale romantic drama set against a train trip between two Russian cities. The film comes to us from director Juho Kuosmanen, a Finnish director whose previous film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki was selected for the 2016 Cannes Festival. Compartment No. 6 won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Content Guide Violence/Scary Images: None. Language/Crude Humor: Some crude language.
Review – The Lost City - Geeks Under Grace
Whatever happened to the Hollywood comedy? The age of Hollywood producing culturally significant and omnipresent comedies has waned. The genre has always been personality-driven, and as the comedy landscape changed so too has those films. Nowadays, Hollywood makes comedies the same way it makes blockbusters: huge special effects, huge actors, and broad appeal to social media trends.
Interview: Jonathan Pageau – Orthodox Icon Carver, Artist, and Co-Creator of God's Dog - Geeks Under Grace
Jonathan Pageau is one of the most interesting Christian artists on the internet. He’s managed to build a small career for himself as a YouTuber, in addition to his work as a carver of Orthodox Christian icons. His YouTube channel has 131,000 subscribers and he’s been able to collaborate and speak with several of the largest voices in online Christian thought including Paul Vanderklay, Pints with Aquinas, The Babylon Bee, Tom Holland, Bishop Barren, and Jordan Peterson.
Retro Review – The King of Kings (1927) - Geeks Under Grace
Happy Easter from Geeks Under Grace! Last year, I made an effort to review one of the great works of Christian filmmaking in time for the holiest time of the year (or a week late as it ended up being…).
Review - Cherry - Geeks Under Grace
The first of the Russo Brothers’ directorial projects following Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019) has reached theaters and streaming devices near you! Cherry (2021) is the first film they’ve worked on following them becoming the most financially successful directors in cinematic history.
Retro Review: Ben-Hur (1959)
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (theatrical), Warner Home Video (DVD) Director: William Wyler Writers: Karl Tunberg. Based on the book by Lee Wallace Composer: Miklós Rózsa Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O’Donnell, Sam Jaffe Genre: Historical Fiction/Religious Epic, Adventure, Drama. In the Golden Age of Hollywood, religious epics were some of the most successful and beloved films ever produced.
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