Justin Clark

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Contributor at Slant Magazine

Freelance Writer at GameSpot

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Articles

Princes of the Universe

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Justin Clark

There’s a line in Interstellar that’s become something of an ill omen: “We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now, we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.” Because even though films continue to lead us into space, it’s rare that you get one like Pixar’s Elio where characters think of the cosmos in terms of infinite possibility and connection rather than a place where landmark-destroying alien threats come from.
The Theater Kids Aren't All Right

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Justin Clark

Jon S. Baird’s family dramedy Everything’s Going to Be Great makes an impassioned plea to hopeless optimists everywhere to love and care for anyone with a wild dream—the people who know who they are and will do anything to find the place where they can be just that. That’s lovely and heartwarming if you’re making The Muppet Movie and the majority of your cast consists of giddily self-aware felt misfits buoying those emotions.
An Eerie Found-Footage Nightmare

2 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | Justin Clark

A burgeoning YouTuber named Lucas Page (William Magnusen) finds a camcorder tape with his name on it in his parents’ house. The tape shows him, as a child, sleeping until two men dressed in black walk into his room, wake him, place something in his mouth, then walk out. Lucas has no memory of this ever taking place.
The Next Explosion: Watch The Opening Cutscene Of Death Stranding 2

2 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Justin Clark

As jam-packed full of gaming news as Summer Game Fest 2025 was, it was up to Hideo Kojima to end the weekend with a bang. Or, rather, an explosion. At a presentation hosted by Geoff Keighley late Sunday night, Hideo Kojima and a few of his collaborators brought a tiny taste of Death Stranding 2 to the festival, which also happened to include the very first scenes of the game.
This Live-Action Remake Doesn't Soar

2 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | Justin Clark

Writer-director Dean DeBlois’s How to Train Your Dragon isn’t some interpolation of the 2010 animated film, as it’s more or less a carbon copy, with the filmmakers having recreated 99% of the original in live action. And as Gus Van Sant proved pretty decisively back in 1998 with his remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, the only value in such an exercise is the degree to which you’re curious, if at all, about its fundamental reason for being.
Indonesian Beat-'Em-Up Acts Of Blood Gives Raid Vibes During Summer Game Fest

3 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Justin Clark

Indonesian developer Fajrul FN dropped a new trailer for their new parkour infused beat-'em-up Acts of Blood during Summer Game Fest 2025. The trailer showed off our hero training, hopping across the rooftops of a city, and absolutely destroying his enemies with his bare fists. The game is due out in 2026. Check out the trailer below.
Mortal Shell II Trailer Comes To Rip And Tear At Summer Game Fest

3 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Justin Clark

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. At Summer Game Fest 2025, Playstack unveiled the sequel to Mortal Shell, and even as grim as the original game was, it's looking like things are about to get a lot more brutal. A lot more.
A Thrilling Animated Anthology

3 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | Justin Clark

Dan Trachtenberg and Joshua Wassung’s Predator: Killer of Killers is just as quick and efficient as the Predators themselves, giving you just enough context around its human characters and how they end up in the monsters’ infrared sights. Specifically, the film tells three stories spanning centuries of hostile extraterrestrial sojourns by Predators—the Yautja, if you’re nasty—to our fragile blue world, thrillingly expanding the series universe.
A Pro Forma Pirouette Through 'John Wick' Lore

3 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | Justin Clark

One of the things that lifts a John Wick movie above a mere revenge flick is the way it drops you into a well-established world full of rules and consequences. So it’s only natural that spinoffs expounding upon things happening at the margins of John Wick’s smackdowns—like the machinations of the Continental Hotel (see, or rather don’t see, Peacock’s The Continental)—were greenlit to capitalize on the success of the series.
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound Gets New Footage And A Release Date At Sony's State Of Play

3 weeks ago | gamespot.com | Justin Clark

Koei Tecmo released a new trailer for Ninja Gaiden Ragebound at Sony's State of Play, as well as the official release date: July 31. Ragebound will have players taking not just one but two ninjas on a demon hunt: Ryu from the Hayabusa clan, and a kunoichi, Kumori, from the Black Spider clan. They'll be taking on a whole legion of demons with combo-based gameplay that aims to blend both the old-school side-scrolling gameplay of the NES games, and the hard-as-nails demon-slaying of the 3D games.