In Miyazaki's new masterpiece, The Boy and The Heron, the “other side” tempts us to stay
...Fantasy and reality have always collided in Miyazaki movies, but The Boy and the Heron makes the choice between them explicit....Fantasy and reality have always commingled in Miyazaki’s films. For Miyazaki’s protagonists, the fantasy can be a temporary and useful balm for real pain. Yet his heroes and heroines realize the value of life is in living it down here with the rest of us mortals, complications and all. Miyazaki has long tacitly expressed that his wondrous lands are not places for one to reside in but only to visit as a way to learn something about oneself or to overcome a difficult passage. READ MORE FROM INVERSE
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Game Awards 2023 Game of the Year: Baldur’s Gate 3
A new GOTY is crowned. The Game Awards 2023, gaming’s biggest night of the year, are finally over. After a handful of hours filled with winners and the occasional announcement, the evening’s final award has been given out. That’s right, we have a new Game of the Year winner. While 2022’s GOTY race was decidedly boring, considering most people knew Elden Ring would take home the prize since the game’s release at the beginning of the year, 2023 was a much tighter race. While being a bad year for the industry at large, the games that came out in 2023 were remarkably incredible across the board. That was reflected in the nominees for Game of the Year, which included the latest Mario and Zelda games, Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and the Resident Evil 4 remake. But the game that went home as the big winner was none other than Baldur’s Gate 3. And they got to receive the award from Timothée Chalamet. READ MORE FROM INVERSE
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The weirdest apocalypse movie of 2023, Leave The World Behind, is a fascinating misfire
Get Out meets The Leftovers meets Black Mirror in this tense drama. December is the month we take stock. It’s the time when we gather with our loved ones, reflect on the year that’s past, and look forward to the year to come. Because of that, it makes it the perfect time to watch movies about the end of the world. Last year, Netflix took advantage of this with Don’t Look Up, the apocalyptic satire from Adam McKay that secured four Oscar noms including Best Picture. (See also: Bird Box and White Noise.) This year, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail released his take on the “family apocalypse drama” that’s tense, mysterious, and above all very, very weird. Here’s why you should check it out now it’s streaming on Netflix. Leave the World Behind, based on the novel by Rumaam Alam, centers around the Sandford family, who go on a vacation to Long Island after mother Amanda (Julia Roberts) wakes up and realizes how much she hates people. On the way there, they lose cell service, but chalk it up to the remote location. But that’s just the first strange occurrence of many: at the beach, an oil tanker runs aground, herds of deer run wild, and all TV channels cut out. READ MORE FROM INVERSE
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Logan Dulien on Clay Marzo as the ‘Epitome of Core,’ and why SNAPT5 is the last in his iconic film series
Logan Dulien is putting the SNAPT series to bed. SNAPT5, which he quietly announced by slyly posting a compilation of Clay Marzo’s cutting-floor clips from Desert Point, will wrap up more than two decades of a legendary film series that’s epitomized surf porn at its best. No frills. No need for a story. No sappy narration trying to make the process of chasing waves sound more important than it needs to be. Just good surfing and good music. Back around 2000, Logan “Chucky” Dulien pointed a camera at guys like Andy Irons, Mick, and CJ, to name a few, because he sensed these friends sleeping on his couch in Orange County were about to take over. He let their surfing do the talking in his films. And they all did take over. That’s how Snapt was born. It’s commendable then, that over 20 years later his creativity and vision for SNAPT is still aligned with that same idea: let the surfing do the talking. But while Chucky’s passion hasn’t changed, surfing and the rest of the world have. For example, there was no social media in 2000 and the internet didn’t run the world (or the entire industry) like it does now. So asking a guy like Andy to hold his best clips for a feature film wasn’t the tall order it is today. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when you jump into a conversation with Dulien about why he’s decided to give his legendary film series one last installment. READ MORE FROM THE INERTIA
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