Gaspar Noe
In the Realm of the Senses
Gaspar Noe's films want your senses open wide, and they get there by borrowing the architecture of games. The drug trip in Enter the Void is Child of Eden without a controller.
Chet Betz
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Danny Brown will die for this shit
“On death row, feel like I am…” For Danny Brown, all is lost. Atrocity Exhibition is the most heartbreaking record in a minute. It begins, quite literally and awash in scuzz, with the “Downward Spiral,” an ongoing theme in Danny’s work since 2011’s seminal XXX. Herein: Danny, on a coke binge, contra
Edge of Tomorrow
Next Level Narrative
Edge of Tomorrow builds an entire movie out of the restart, the most videogame idea of all.
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Kanye West and the gloriously messy Life of Pablo
Kanye West is making a videogame. Now, what that probably entails is Kanye approaching a group of game designers and programmers with, “Hey, nerds, make a game about my dearly departed mother entering the gates of heaven. And make it look dope.” Then, like, he signs off on their designs and whatnot.
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Degrees of duality in Mario, vis a vis Wario.
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With eXistenZ, Cronenberg created the only videogame movie we’ll ever need
Game on, and in, eXistenZ.
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Panzer Dragoon Saga: A Personal History
Exploring a world of shade.