You might already know about Hori’s $59.99 Split Pad Pro, which reimagines the Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Con controllers as if they got jacked in the gym. Hori launched the controller a couple of years ago alongside […]
The aggressively family-oriented “Dakota” is a good-versus-evil live-action cartoon, occasionally dipping its toe into PTSD. It means to be about a struggling family saved by a brave dog. What most viewers will agree on is […]
Amid the rather dull slate of Disney Plus original movies, Better Nate Than Ever finally brings some much-needed pizazz. Maybe it’s no surprise that a movie about the consummate theater kid is full of sparkling […]
The debut feature from filmmaker Mari Walker, “See You Then,” offers a simple premise: a reunion between two former lovers that takes place over the span of a single evening. A decade after their abrupt […]
This review comes out of the 2022 media expo SXSW, where Polygon sent writers to look at the next wave of upcoming releases. Richard Linklater specializes in nostalgia. His coming-of-age movies, from Dazed and Confused […]
I’ve been encouraging my mom to take a vacation for years now. Every year, however, she puts something in front of her joy: she’s taking care of a sick relative, she doesn’t have the funds, […]
Michael Bublé. Photo Courtesy of Norman Jean Roy On March 25, Grammy-winning artist Michael Bublé released his highly-anticipated new studio album “Higher” via Warner Records/Reprise Records, and it is utterly fantastic. This record is comprised of […]
With just about every gaming keyboard I’ve tested, there’s always something missing — a feeling of “if this keyboard only had this or that, it would be perfect.” The Mountain Everest Max feels like an […]
Look, I don’t know about you, but the pandemic destroyed my attention span. A two-hour movie feels overwhelming. A book feels downright insurmountable. A TV series? Maybe? But how many episodes? The amount of time […]
I can’t dance. Don’t ask me. Those who can are as, if not gods to me, then at the very least blessed, otherworldly beings. In new, chaotically entertaining reality-competition show Lizzo’s Watch Out for the […]
In Netflix’s Bridgerton season two, there is a lot of delicious yearning, and many individual moments that work spectacularly well, but it doesn’t make for the same kind of fun escapism as season one and […]
“Întregalde” is the name of a stretch of Romanian countryside, a world of muddy roads, gnarled trees, a few scattered villages and — though we never see them — hungry wolves and bears. It’s not […]
Poor Marian wound up with her heart predictably broken in the season finale of “The Gilded Age,” but that was only one of the many balls that series creator Julian Fellowes juggled with “Downton Abbey”-like […]
DMZ bears the unfortunate distinction of suffering from one of the most severe pandemic disruptions on a show that’s made it to air. Originally planned as a proper ongoing series for HBO Max, the series […]
“Have you ever fallen asleep in class and woken up with a jolt?” That’s more or less the most precise way to articulate the vibe Japanese singer and composer Eve (stylized as “E ve”) gives […]
At E3 2013 Steven Spielberg announced he and Microsoft were planning to adapt Halo into a TV show. Nine games, nine years, a network switch, and plethora of memes later, and Halo is finally premiering. […]
George Clooney, Sam Rockwell, Zoe Kazan, and more all pop by. It’s obvious from the opening credits of Ethan Hawke’s documentary, “The Last Movie Stars,” that he loves Old Hollywood. Hawke, who decided to direct […]
The two Oscar winners are highly entertaining, but their presence pulls attention better spent elsewhere in the Apple TV+ limited series. SXSW can’t get enough of Adam Neumann. Just last year, during the festival’s virtual […]
It takes exactly 31 seconds from the start of his third album for Alex O’Connor to inform listeners that he’s feeling both stressed and “so depressed”. Those familiar with O’Connor’s oeuvre as Rex Orange County […]
Jackson’s title character is introduced in the throes of dementia, relying on help from his nephew (Omar Miller), who is murdered early on. Lacking a caretaker, Ptolemy forms a bond with an orphaned teenager, Robyn […]