Brief Review: Netflix's "High Score"

 

One of my favorite hobby horses is how video games, an industry that generates more revenue than the movie and music industries combined, is largely ignored by the old media.  To me, this has been a baffling exercise in willful blindness, something akin to when theater ignored the arrival of motion pictures, much to their long-term chagrin. The arrival of the video game industry has proven to be a watershed event, one that would transform the world of entertainment forevermore.  How did this happen?  At long last, someone has acknowledged the Donkey Kong gorilla in the room and attempted to answer that question by chronicling the rise of this new entertainment goliath.  Deposit a token to watch Netflix's new docu-series about the rise of video games, High Score.

Reviewed: Netflix's "Love Death + Robots"

Whenever I watch some Netflix original production, I am reminded of the words of Omar Bradley who chided the world for being one of "nuclear giants and ethical infants."  Much the same is going on in the world of contemporary entertainment where CGI giants and narrative midgets abound.  Tim Miller and David Fincher's Love Death + Robots is a perfect example.  While each of the eighteen episodes is brought to spectacular life with some truly astounding animation, the vast majority of the narratives are rather, well, juvenile.