Spot Reviews 04/03/26
Apr 03 2026
Love Untangled (2025) [/] South Korean teen romantic comedy film. Park Se-ri (Shin Eun-soo - Light Shop, 2024) has crazy curly hair that she's never managed properly. To win the heart of the school hunk she needs to straighten her hair and there's a new hair stylist with a magic hair straightening technique from Seoul. And that hair stylist's son is her new strange classmate Han Yoon-seok (Gong Myung). To get that hair treatment she befriends Yoon-seok and helps him out after he's injured. Naturally once she finally gets the straight hair and is ready to confess to the school hunk she starts to realize it's Yoon-seok whom she's attracted to... It's a nice enough movie.
Downwell+ (2023) [/] Rogue-like arcade shooting/jumping game with 2-bit graphics (with some red elements). Controls are left, right, jump/fire. You are going down a well that has platforms to land on and creatures to shoot or stomp. Pick up items and try to make it to the bottom shaft (which leads you to the next level). It's simple but well executed and vaguely nostalgic (though I don't know why).
Crossword Jam+ (2023) [-] Apple Arcade word game. There is a dial with four or more letters. Form words using the letters of the dial without repeating letters. There is also a crossword but your words automatically go into the crossword so the crossword is only for giving you clues for a word (if it's a valid word but not in the crossword that's bonus points). Not a particularly exciting game as the combination of the two (dial and crossword) makes it maybe too easy.
Vampirella vs The Superpowers TPB (2024) [/] Vampirella and sidekick Dyna Might go undercover in Plural 1948 (alternate Earth where the world wars were fought by natural and chemically-enabled supers) to find a drug kingpin dealing in illegal elixirs -- drugs that give people temporary super powers. This is part of the continuity where Vampirella joins The Superpowers Project (composed of public domain Golden Age heroes) which I find a bit confusing as Dynamite is also publishing comics with other versions of Vampirella. I like this story because it is somewhat noir-ish.
Downwell+ (2023) [/] Rogue-like arcade shooting/jumping game with 2-bit graphics (with some red elements). Controls are left, right, jump/fire. You are going down a well that has platforms to land on and creatures to shoot or stomp. Pick up items and try to make it to the bottom shaft (which leads you to the next level). It's simple but well executed and vaguely nostalgic (though I don't know why).
Crossword Jam+ (2023) [-] Apple Arcade word game. There is a dial with four or more letters. Form words using the letters of the dial without repeating letters. There is also a crossword but your words automatically go into the crossword so the crossword is only for giving you clues for a word (if it's a valid word but not in the crossword that's bonus points). Not a particularly exciting game as the combination of the two (dial and crossword) makes it maybe too easy.
Vampirella vs The Superpowers TPB (2024) [/] Vampirella and sidekick Dyna Might go undercover in Plural 1948 (alternate Earth where the world wars were fought by natural and chemically-enabled supers) to find a drug kingpin dealing in illegal elixirs -- drugs that give people temporary super powers. This is part of the continuity where Vampirella joins The Superpowers Project (composed of public domain Golden Age heroes) which I find a bit confusing as Dynamite is also publishing comics with other versions of Vampirella. I like this story because it is somewhat noir-ish.