This experimental throwback to the days of "Flash Gordon" is shot entirely with its actors against a blue screen, using no real sets or locations. The production design is so adept at looking both retroactive AND futuristic that the film always has a newness about it even when its plot leans toward the conventional.
Ian Stepp remembers visiting his aunt’s house as a kid, where he’d play classic games like Duck Hunt and iterations of the Mario Brothers saga on the family’s trusty old Nintendo Entertainment System. Now pushing 30, Stepp is still a fan of the now-classic video games that in recent years have spawned a thriving culture and industry capitalizing on the nostalgia of grownups who coveted Nintendo game systems as kids in the 1980s and 90s.
