Note: This review covers episodes 1-4 of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

10 years after embarking on a quest to defeat the Demon King, a band of four heroes return home to the uproarious applause of the kingdom’s citizens. There’s Himmel the hero, Eisen the dwarven warrior, Heiter the priest, and they’re all basking from the end of a dark era. And then there’s Frieren the elven mage who, true to her ancestry, is hundreds of years older than her human companions. For the title hero, saving the wor...

Delays are a tough pill to swallow, and in 2022, gamers were certainly force-fed their medicine. For context, we lost out on Starfield, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Forspoken, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Hogwarts Legacy, and The Day Before, just to name a few. And for that reason, gaming was considered quiet.Sure, we endured longer-than-usual dry spells, but you know what? The quality of the games that did release was immeasurable. As guardians we defeated the Witch Queen, as gods...

In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Mario and Luigi are two Italian-American Brooklynites who quit their day jobs to start their own independent plumbing venture. Problem is, these two entrepreneurs are in over their heads, at least, that’s what their family and former employers think. No one believes in them, and Mario, especially, detests being made to feel small, so when the business opportunity of a lifetime appears, he drags his brother to save Brooklyn’s sewage problem. One wrong turn in the s...