Miguel Penabella is a freelancer and comparative literature academic who worships at the temple of cinema but occasionally bears libations to videogames.
Shadow of the Colossus grasps how slowness and inaction can give rise to contemplation, perfectly underscoring the quietude of solitary travel and hardship.
Is the largely forgotten Wet worth a second look? Miguel Penabella considers the game in relation to grindhouse films and the phenomenon of the "B-game".
The Order: 1886 never really stood a chance on its release earlier this year. Miguel examines whether it received a raw deal critically, and if it deserves a Second Shot.
Rumbling out of the dingy nightclubs and bars of a nocturnal New York City easing into the early 1980s, the no wave artistic scene offered a perversion of Debbie Harry and David Byrne, rebuking new wave music at large with a nihilistic criticism bordering on parody.