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Steven Nguyen Scaife
@midfalutin.bsky.social
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Freelance critic for games, TV, & movies. Library worker. Bylines at Slant Magazine, Polygon, IGN, Boston Globe, Edge, Unwinnable, Fanbyte, Buzzfeed News, etc. He/him.

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wow they REALLY went in a new direction for the remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Hulu thumbnails with mismatched titles and images. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is paired with Only Murders in the Building, while The Kardashians is paired with Chad Powers
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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sage advice
October 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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A Chinese Ghost Story rules for this hair(?) alone
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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its release went pretty under the radar, but One-Eyed Likho has great atmosphere. black and white, based on Russian folklore.
a rocky beachside landscape, with islands in the distance and a rickety boat tied to the dock. the skies are overcast, and the whole scene is in black and white black-and-white image. an outstretched hand holds a burning match up to reveal a mural of a one-eyed monster eating a man, flanked by desolate trees. a disembodied head rests on the wooden well below the mural black-and-white image. in a sidelong view, we see a wooden wheel on fire that's rolling across some rocks.
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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this happened to one of mine from 2024, but everything before that seems fine?
August 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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started reading The Sickness, can already tell it's the good stuff
bottom of a black-and-white page from comic The Sickness. a woman stands clawing at the window, her face crazed and hungry. liquid is dripping from the air. a man is behind her in shadow. holes appear that weren't there before
July 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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mine was apparently huge for no reason
July 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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it's beautiful
July 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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new t-shirt idea unlocked
a picture from the season 2 finale of The Rehearsal, with a computer that says "GO THIRSTY / LOSE FRIENDS / GET CANCER" and an MRI machine in the background
May 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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who's gonna buy my script adapting Phalanx
box art for Phalanx, that one SNES space shooter that has a guy with a banjo on the cover for no reason
May 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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the Days Gone remaster is out, so here's my review of the original from 6 years ago.

in what I'm sure is a coincidence, it's the last review code we ever got from Sony! www.slantmagazine.com/games/days-g...
review text excerpt: "Days Gone is the apotheosis of the more-is-more philosophy: more bars to fill, more gates to progress, more hours of playtime, more zombies per square inch because “more” is supposed to fill the hole where some semblance of meaning ought to be, bridging the gap between one mind-numbing mission template and the next. It’s the purest example yet of the video game as mere content to be consumed, down to the very fact that each storyline you’re supposed to be emotionally invested in is marked with a completion percentage. Days Gone is a void."
April 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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never gonna get over them renaming their streaming service to this
a TV screen with black-screen opening titles that say "Max Presents"
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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loungin
a large brown cat lies on top of a cat tree. she's near a window and the sun is shining on her
March 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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THE VOURDALAK (2023)
one of those emaciated, big-headed blue redeads from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
March 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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look what they've done to my boy
Mads Mikkelsen as Rochefort in the 2011 THREE MUSKETEERS. He has an eyepatch and an unfortunate little downward arrow beard
February 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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"...because we also get to feel vaguely superior that we’re not as self-absorbed and out-of-touch as each season’s bunch of moneyed malcontents. For the Thailand-set third season, which premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO and Max, it’s business as usual at the eponymous hotel chain: beautiful people in beautiful locations give us the beautiful reassurance that our worldview is correct and our assumptions unchallenged."
February 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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one of the hazards of AI art is that sometimes your children's book cover puts Anansi in a Spider-Man mask
cover to a children's book, A Guide to African Myths, with a thin man who has the Spider-Man mask pattern imprinted on his face and six spider legs coming out the sides of his head
February 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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January 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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they're back
a brown cat perched on the window sill stares at four deer in the snow within a housing area
January 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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ah yes two of my favorite themes
December 29, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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these were my favorite new-to-me, non-2024 movies of the year

(mostly stuff I am vaguely embarrassed to just now be seeing)
a list of the movies: After Hours, Blue Collar, Bobby Yeah (short), Braindead (aka Dead Alive), The Cat, Cemetery Man, The Fall, Ganja & Hess, The Girl Without Hands, Midnight Run, Miller's Crossing, Neo Tokyo, The Parallax View, Paths of Glory, The Quick and the Dead, Riders of Justice, Sexy Beast, Targets, Train to Busan, A Woman Under the Influence
December 28, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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"you will be visited by three spirits"

the three spirits:
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff connected by a magic triangle with a raven in the center. DVD cover for Roger Corman's 1963 film THE RAVEN
December 25, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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the highest seal of approval
a book cover with a circular yellow symbol that says "MARINE BIOLOGIST APPROVED." it has three sea creatures in the center
December 19, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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watching, plotting
a large brown cat gazes up toward the ceiling while lounging on top of a cat tower
December 9, 2024 at 2:34 AM