Marvel’s Doctor Strange gets the 8-Bit Cinema treatment, looks a little like Mega Man
I really liked Doctor Strange. While lots of the MCU tends to blend together visually and tonally, Strange had tilty fractals and psychedelic wonder, ...
Tag: retro
Zack Snyder’s Justice League gets an 8-bit trailer (more like 16-bit)
Zack Snyder has been pretty good about hyping his Justice League movie on Twitter lately. In the last week he’s released an image ...
Reviews
Review: Lake Nowhere
I saw Lake Nowhere last Halloween. I first heard about the film about a month prior, at the press screening for The Last ...
Trailers
Watch the trailer for The Lost Arcade, a documentary on NYC’s Chinatown Fair
As someone who still wears the occasional onion on his belt, I remember arcades quite fondly. They were in steady decline when I ...
This is heavy: They’re making actual DeLoreans in 2017
With 2015 behind us, you’d think that was the end of weaponized Back to the Future nostalgia. Well, no. Turns out you’ll be ...
Watch some spooky VHS tapes online this Halloween… no, seriously
Shout Factory, purveyor of fine video good that everyone but us super-nerds forgot about, has rolled out an unusually awesome and hilarious treat ...
Watch: The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy (1990) hosted by a young and sane Kirk Cameron
October 21, 2015 is Back to the Future Day. Today is the day that Marty and Doc Brown visited the future in Back ...
8-Bit Cinema does Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the best and most enjoyable movies of the year. It should come as no surprise, then, ...
Trailers
Trailer: Nintendo Quest features a man trying to collect the entire NES library without the internet
In the documentary Nintendo Quest, Jay Bartlett is on a mission. He has 30 days to collect all 678 North American NES titles. ...
Trailers
The trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
Here’s the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, and it looks old-timier than usual. Note the full frame aspect ratio ...
Flix for Short: The Mad Scientist (Fleischer’s Superman)
With Man of Steel coming out this week, it just makes sense to highlight something with Superman. And where better than the Max ...
Features
Interview: Richard Raaphorst (Frankenstein’s Army)
Even though I had issues with the found-footage aspect of Frankenstein’s Army, there’s a great anarchic imagination in the film, and it belongs ...