In Mass Effect 1, Commander Sheppard is given many dialogue options when speaking to Fai Dan, leader of the human colony on Feros. When he explains how screwed up the colony is, Sheppard can offer a comforting paragon reaction, or an unpleasant renegade response.

Tony Todd: No it’s not true. For a Pokémon, no. I never did Pokémon, sir. That’s some weak ass shit.

No, I am not likening the first issue of Dark Horse’s Mass Effect tie-in comic to a stewed fruit sauce. Rather, I’m referring to the issue’s protagonist, blue-skinned alien Dr. Liara T’soni, and the overload of sassiness she brings to the pages.

Performing comedy is hard enough when you speak the same language as your audience. The Yamamoto family’s success with their Wang Center performance of kyogen plays—stories taken nearly seven thousand miles and seven hundred years from their origin—was an impressive feat.

In what was one of the strangest coming attractions to air on television, the film Repo Men, directed by Miguel Sapochnick, is set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit.

I know you’ve seen the commercials for Legion and have probably thought “Wow, that looks stupid and/or entertaining as hell. Also, I can never look at my grandmother again without thinking she’ll attack me, then climb all over the ceiling like a deranged woodland creature.” But you’re wrong. Legion is a deep, spiritual movie that contemplates the fragility of mankind as merely the creation of a superior being.

The only available taste of the [sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions] so far is the one–mission demo–maybe twenty minutes, tops, in length. Is it enough to earn Lost Planet II wait-in-line-at-midnight status? Not quite, but it’s close.