Why Nintendo’s sales are skyrocketing during pandemic
Nintendo’s Switch console has flown off shelves since its March release.
Arts & Culture
Love in the time of coronavirus: One circus couple finally gets time together
Performers Adam and Lisanna Vasquez met in 2011, and have had rendezvous in some of the most romantic cities on earth. But the coronavirus pandemic brought them home, together.
Indie video game developers lead a retro-style resurgence
Independent developers have embraced 16-bit graphics and classic storytelling—and so have consumers.
‘May the Fourth be with you’: Star Wars fans embrace celebration
What started as a fan-led celebration has been adopted by Disney, which owns the popular franchise.
Popcorn with Zenger: ‘Spenser Confidential’ a miss for action-comedy fun
The new Netflix offering from Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg could have been a fun B-movie adventure, but doesn’t establish its characters and underuses its talent.
Popcorn with Zenger: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ strikes gold despite outcry over character redesign
Paramount and SEGA have resurrected the long-loved Sonic with a strong performance from Jim Carrey and a script with throwbacks to the blue hedgehog’s first generation
Popcorn with Zenger: Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus can’t save ‘Downhill’
‘Downhill’ is no ‘Anchorman,’ and audiences have been turning away from Ferrell’s comic films with good reason. The opening wide-shot of the Swiss Alps is all the bliss this film has to offer.
Popcorn with Zenger: No lasting thrills in ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’
A Netflix offering proves the rule: Not all books make good movies. This Anne Hathaway adventure wants to be an engaging political thriller, but it’s an incoherent mess.
Popcorn with Zenger: ‘Invisible Man’ puts Elisabeth Moss in domestic-abuse thriller
A classic monster movie becomes a tale of abuse in this smart horror flick at first abandoned by Universal Pictures.