I love the “Resident Evil” games. I really do. I basically spent my latter teenage years and early twenties obsessing over the RE series, its offshoots…I can even name specific voice actors for different characters and changes to canon throughout the years. What Simon Pegg is to Star Wars, I am to Resident Evil. That’s why the vacuous writing of the “Resident Evil” blockbuster action movies hurts me so deeply. (Originally published January 18, 2018.)
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Read More(Spoilers up to season 7) Game of Thrones: An unsettling theory about Arya
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(Originally published 5/3/2018.)