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Joonatan Itkonen

Joonatan is an award-winning autistic freelance writer from Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in pop culture analysis from a neurodivergent point of view.

Night Visions: Black Eyed Susan

★★★★ | Deus Sex Machina

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 1 Nov 2024

Yvonne Emilie Thalker in the film Black Eyed Susan

Until Dawn Remake is still good, but not indispensable

★★★★ | Dead by dawn

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 1 Nov 2024

Key art for the game Until Dawn

Night Visions: Scared Shitless

★★★★ | Flushed with greatness

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 1 Nov 2024

Steven Ogg fighting a shit monster in the movie Scared Shitless

Night Visions: Shadowland

★★★★★ | Scamdalf

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 31 Oct 2024

Key art for the documentary Shadowland featuring three robed women in a circle

Train Yard Builder is fiddly fun for enthusiasts

★★★ | I choo-choose you.

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 31 Oct 2024

Key art for the game Train Yard Builder featuring a hand placing down a steam engine

Monopoly is great and terrible even in digital form

★★★★ | A surprisingly great adaptation of a board game I hate.

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 31 Oct 2024

Monopoly is great and terrible even in digital form

LFF: Eight Postcards from Utopia

★★★★★ | Infotainment

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 31 Oct 2024

A man and a woman stare at each other as their clothes are colored in from top to bottom in the film Eight Postcards from Utopia

Anora is a marvelous anti-fairy tale

★★★★★ | Working girl

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 29 Oct 2024

Mikey Madison dances in a neon-lit club in the film Anora

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band is for the fans

★★★★ | Glory Days

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 25 Oct 2024

Key art for the documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band featuring Bruce Springsteen looking up while playing the guitar.

Like a Dragon: Yakuza Season 1 does the original games justice

★★★★ | Jackpot

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 24 Oct 2024

Key art for the series Like a Dragon: Yakuza featuring the lead cast against a drawing of a dragon

Frostpunk 2 is a chilling sequel that makes life feel small

★★★★ | Chilling masterpiece

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 24 Oct 2024

Key art for the game Frostpunk 2 featuring a soot-covered person gazing into a fire.

Venom: The Last Dance is a clumsy way to call it a night

★ | Knull and void

By Joonatan Itkonen

/ 23 Oct 2024

Tom Hardy changing into the antihero Venom in the movie Venom: The Last Dance