Eighty-one years passed between the first Academy Awards ceremony and the first Best Picture winner directed by a woman. In that span, the Academy handed out the top prize to films directed by Cecil... Read More →
The Western built American cinema. From the 1903 silent short The Great Train Robbery through John Wayne’s six-decade career, the genre was the medium’s signature export – its definitive image, its biggest stars, its... Read More →
Most Pokemon games tell you exactly where to go. You beat Brock, then Misty, then you head north. The path is clear, the gyms are locked in order, and the whole thing unfolds like... Read More →
When Game Freak released Pokemon Sun and Moon in November 2016, they did something they had never done in 20 years of mainline games: they scrapped the Gym. No more badge-hunting. No more eight... Read More →
The Kalos region was built to look like France, and it carries that reputation with style. Released in October 2013, Pokemon X and Y introduced Generation 6 to the Nintendo 3DS - the first... Read More →
In 1674, the Department of Magical Games and Sports sat down with a problem. Quidditch had become too popular. There were too many teams, too many matches, and far too many brooms visible over... Read More →
The Unova region is modeled after New York City and its surroundings, which explains a lot. The gym leaders here are not gentle professors or serene fishermen - they are a fashion model, a... Read More →
The Sinnoh gym leaders are the most structurally coherent group in the series. They include the only father-son gym leader pair in the franchise. They include a gym leader so bored with local competition... Read More →
The Hoenn gym leaders are the first generation designed around a region explicitly modeled on a specific real-world geography – the Kyushu and Yamaguchi prefectures of southern Japan, an area known for ocean, volcanic... Read More →
The Johto gym leaders came with a lot to prove. Generation 2 shipped in 1999 and had to follow the original eight without simply repeating them. What it delivered was a roster with more... Read More →
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