Video Game Review: Mortal Kombat 11

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To its credit, the game offers up a robust tutorial system that starts with the basics and keeps adding more layers to what you can do. If you’re struggling with timing or execution it’s a great place to go and clean up your technique — the option to view a demo of any move, including how to time your inputs, can be very helpful. In addition to the general tutorials, there’s also character-specific ones available to help you learn individual moves.

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Blu-ray Review: The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part

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If you ever played with LEGOs as a kid it’s hard not to enjoy the incredibly inventive way all the structures have been brought to life. The way it switches between slick animation and silly, ultra-cheap stuff is fun, too. Beyond the cleverness of the world, there are many fun cameos and little winks and nods to other film series and Warner Brothers properties, though it does feel scaled back relative to the original.

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Video Game Review: The Caligula Effect: Overdose

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There are three core elements at work: exploration (read: dungeon crawling), social interaction and combat. Those dungeons take the form of a city as you run through hallways and streets, encountering “digiheads” (your fellow Mobius residents whose minds remain closed to the truth — more on that below) that you’ll battle with. The transition to these fights sees the world melt away, exposing an arena-like setting.

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Blu-ray Review: IMAX Pandas

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There’s some late drama as well, as the transition to the wild isn’t as successful as the team had hoped, forcing Owens to return to China (after a contrived scene of him running and then “getting the phone call”) to track down Qian Qian. The film never really clues you in as to what went wrong, or what the results mean for the future, but suffice to say the effort to acclimate Qian Qian wasn’t a rousing success.

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Video Game Review: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

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At the heart of combat is a system built on breaking an opponent’s posture as you attempt to open them to a killing blow rather than slash away for damage. This is done via a mix of attacking and defending with properly timed deflections serving as the most effective way to expose a foe for the kill. Finding the sweet spot with an enemy’s attack takes practice, and if you’re too late you’ll absorb a hit — blocking wards off blows, but your own posture erodes with each strike.

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Blu-ray Review: Bumblebee

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As that uneasy alliance searches for Bumblebee, he and Charlie begin to form a close friendship with the Autobot becoming something of a surrogate father after her own passed away recently, an event she continues to struggle with. All the while, danger continues to close in as the Decepticons work tirelessly to locate their prey, setting up a dangerous showdown.

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Blu-ray Review: The Mule

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With all the “road trips” Earl embarks on, The Mule gets to show off a lot of pretty scenery and offer a taste of what driving across America is like, which is something we always find appealing. There’s also a leisurely pace to everything, and as long as you don’t go in looking for action (there’s almost none) it can be rather enjoyable.

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