Ratchet

If there’s anything to really take away from the Ratchet and Clank movie, it’s that the writers and director Kevin Munroe failed to understand what makes the Ratchet and Clank games so special. This is baffling as one of the writers is T.J. Fixman, who wrote for the games, starting with the Ratchet and Clank …

In his not-quite seminal but still very good 1998 essay “F/X Porn,” David Foster Wallace dissects the lasting legacy of James Cameron’s mega-blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day. (Well, more accurately, he examines the enduring stain left by Cameron’s film on the modern action movie, but whatever.) The essay doesn’t offer much in the way of …