Bryan Barcena

After almost three decades of abysmally shitty console-to-screen adaptations, can we please agree that movies based on video games are a terrible, terrible, terrible idea? From Super Mario Bros. through Prince of Persia, the genre is nothing more than a giant, gaping suckhole of commercial and critical failure. So why are...

At this point, everybody knows that if you're into hardcore squid porn or any other kind of fetish involving schoolgirls, seafood, and SM, then you've gotta go to Japan. This East Asian island nation is the world's leading purveyor of perverted shit and it's no wonder their penchant for depravity...

Some video games just fucking suck. And it's no coincidence that the vast majority of shitty games are based on some other shitty media product -- a plastic Disney pop tart, some dumb movie, or softcore porn magazine -- that corporate America considers a sacred cash cow. It's become routine...

Famed movie critic Rogert Ebert recently said that video games will never be works of art. Overnight, he and his thumbs became major objects of ire for gamers across the globe. And although he later apologized and retracted his statement -- no doubt due to internet trolls bombarding his website...

If you didn’t get your fill of Wynwood during the last art walk, there’s still time to check out what the ’Wood has to offer. The David Castillo Gallery recently put out a call to its resident artists, and they’re trotting out all the new work for this month’s exhibit,...