Video Game Review: Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles

As an unnamed hero you end up shipwrecked on Gemea, an island inhabited by friendly folks and critters that are being intruded upon by a mysterious fog known as the murk. In the broadest sense, it’s your quest to discover the origin of the murk, learn how to eliminate it and then go about assembling and/or repairing the devices necessary to do so.

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Blu-ray Review: Creed II

While still basking in the glow of winning the belt, Creed is unexpectedly called out by Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu), the son of Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), who killed Creed’s father in the ring 30-plus years ago. Against the advice of his trainer and father figure Rocky Balboa (Stallone), Adonis accepts the fight and moves to LA with Bianca.

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Video Game Review: Almost There: The Platformer

In terms of content, you’re looking at 155 levels spread across three stages with packs of levels grouped into tiers. Each one contains the ubiquitous three stars, one for simply completing it and then two more based on hitting time targets, offering some incentive to retry levels to improve your speed. The question is whether or not you’ll want to.

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Blu-ray Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet

We usually save the phrase “world design” for video games, but the folks behind Ralph deserve a lot of credit for taking the internet and turning it into a physical realm. The manifestations of pop ups, spam blockers, search engines, websites and more are really clever, and it ends up making the world of the internet the star of the movie, much more so than Ralph or Vanellope.

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Blu-ray Review: A Star is Born

We really enjoyed the way things were filmed and presented, particularly the concert performances. There aren’t any tricks here. These are the real people on stage in front of real crowds with a cameraman or two circling them as they perform. That’s it. Cooper also uses a lot of unique framing and angles during the quieter times, and the result is a film that’s visually interesting from start to finish.

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