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THE GRAY HOUSE SERIES REVIEW Sam Houston once said “Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not fiery, impulsive people as you […]

WONDER MAN SERIES REVIEW If you’ve been out of the MCU for a few, Marvel’s Wonder Man arrives on Disney+ as not only one of the MCU’s most self-aware projects to date but as a perfect re-entry point that doesn’t require you watching or even knowing anything that took place after Avengers: Endgame. An industry […]

HIS AND HERS SERIES REVIEW A lotta things can call us back to our childhood home town. Adoring parents. Cherished memories. A reunion of some kind. Even a homicide! Investigative journalist Ana Andrews (Tessa Thompson) returns to her childhood home when a close high school friend is found stabbed over a dozen times and left […]

KAOS SERIES REVIEW The thing about prophecies is that they tend to come true in spite of a person’s best efforts to stop them, and when it involves the gods, it is often mortals who suffer the consequences. With Prometheus acting as guide, the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, Caeneus, and Ariadne are woven together […]

JACKPOT! MOVIE REVIEW In the dystopian future of 2030, former child actor, Katie Kim (Awkwafina), is trying to restart her career in Hollywood. After unknowingly entering and winning the California Grand Lottery, Katie finds herself in a fight for her life as everyone in the city, from biker gangs to yoga teachers, comes out of […]

JOKO ANWAR’S NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS SERIES REVIEW Hey to all you Christmas in July folks! You can get out of here with your awful snow and frozen heart. We are getting into the spooky scarys in the 2024 summer brought to you by Netflix. Joko Anwar Presents Nightmares and Daydreams is an anthology of seven […]

SWEET TOOTH SEASON 3 REVIEW It has been a long, long journey to get here but we have reached the end of our story. That story being the third and final season of Netflix’s adaptation of Jeff Lemire’s comic, Sweet Tooth. The final eight episodes sees Gus and his merry crew still on the search […]

HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON MOVIE REVIEW What do you do when you’re a vampire, and the thought of biting someone’s neck puts you in a moral quandary? This is the dilemma of Sasha, a young teenager of the vampyric persuasion who, despite her family’s pressure, is unable to bring herself to hunt down […]

DEATH AND OTHER DETAILS SERIES REVIEW Pay attention! Even the slightest detail can lead to the most damning results. Every coincidence a bread crumb yet to reveal itself on the trail to a gingerbread house of justice. Hulu presents Death and Other Details, a weekly episodic murder mystery starring Mandy Patinkin and Violett Beane. Imogen […]

EILEEN MOVIE REVIEW It’s Christmas time in a small town in 1960’s Massachusetts, a place where any hopes and dreams are killed and buried beneath the cold and the grey of the monotonous tedium of everyday life. At least that’s the case for Eileen Dunlap (Thomasin McKenzie) as she spends her days listlessly going from […]

BLUE EYE SAMURAI SERIES REVIEW Welcome to Edo-era Japan where isolationism is key to survival. Anyone who is an outsider is ostracized maybe sometimes murdered. The Japanese don’t want to fuck with white folk (for good reasons). But you know what white colonizers are like… A pillage here, a bunch of rapes over there… The […]

QUIZ LADY MOVIE REVIEW Remember the days back when studios made comedies? The old cinematic laugh-oh-matic? See back in the old days, studios didn’t make genre-smashing epics, punched up with funny yuck yucks. They would actually set aside a few million bucks, gather the best in comedy, and take a gamble on something lighter than […]

WISH MOVIE REVIEW Disney’s latest animated release Wish is inspired by their Centennial anniversary, and yeah, they don’t want you to forget it for a second during this film. The kingdom of Rosas was founded by a powerful wizard who becomes King Magnifico (Chris Pine). He and his Queen (Angelique Cabral) rule with a gentle […]

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER REVIEW Every Hallow’s eve the corporate ghouls and ghosts gather in the stream from hell to celebrate the return of Michael Flanagan to Netflix. Last year the master of horror gathered inspiration from one of the most diabolical existential hauntings that have plagued mankind’s existence, terminal illness. This […]

APPENDAGE MOVIE REVIEW A young fashion designer seems fine on the surface but secretly struggles with debilitating self-doubt. Pfft, been there. That’s the life of any creative person. What else ya got, movie? Ah, well, soon these buried feelings begin to make Hannah physically sick and sprout into a ferocious growth on her body: The […]

57 SECONDS MOVIE REVIEW Time loop movies have been a recurring and popular subgenre in modern cinema for ages. Maybe even longer, if you’re living in some sort of time loop yourself. These films typically involve a character or group of characters being trapped or forced to relive a specific period of time over and […]

THE MONKEY KING MOVIE REVIEW You may be familiar with the legend of the Monkey King from the ancient Chinese myth Journey to the West. The tale has been adapted into film, television, books, comics, and music hundreds of times. If you’re somehow not familiar, the story of the Monkey King is an epic adventure […]

GREAT EXPECTATIONS SERIES REVIEW The 1988 film Scrooged is about a TV executive putting on a live TV broadcast of the classic novel, A Christmas Carol. In the beginning rehearsals for this production, the aforementioned executive is confronted by a censor who tells him that the dancer costumes are indecent. In his defense, he replies, “I […]

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES MOVIE REVIEW It’s a harsh winter even for Neverwinter.  You find yourself in a stone prison along with your roommate, a grizzled barbarian woman.  You’re brought into a council room made up of a two person prison review board.  As you work to persuade the board to your release, […]

FURIES MOVIE REVIEW In Greek mythology, the Furies were a trio of very powerful and angry goddesses who punished men who did bad things, particularly to women. They were a force of justice, but also a force to be reckoned with. So, it is a well chosen title for the newest Netflix female driven revenge […]

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II SERIES REVIEW Better late than never…” some would say. It’s been over 40 years since History of the World, Part 1 graced the silver screen, so now it’s Hulu’s turn (along with Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, and Mel Brooks as Exec Producers) to put history in perspective. […]

KALEIDOSCOPE SERIES REVIEW The Heist genre has given us some classic films: Heat, Inception, Ocean’s 11, to name a few. The tropes are similar if not the same for every one of these stories. A ragtag group of criminals is brought together by the old pro looking to pull off one last job that will […]

SPIRIT HALLOWEEN: THE MOVIE MOVIE REVIEW Let’s get straight to the point here. We all knew that a Halloween movie based off a seasonal store that likes to pop it’s head up every Fall (like my herpes) was going to be “iffy” at best. Oh boy, were we wrong. Take a coming of age story, […]

MEET CUTE MOVIE REVIEW What would you do if you could travel through time? Kill Hitler? That’s a classic, but then you might end up with a real Smitson. Who? Exactly. Okay, well how about using the ability to loop back on your own life to recapture the magic of your chance meeting with the […]

DRIFTING HOME MOVIE REVIEW Acclaimed writer/director of animation Hiroyasu Ishida (Penguin Highway) presents the newest anime film from Netflix, Drifting Home.  Little kid friends Kosuke and Natsumi’s have been drifting apart.  In Junior High they have their own cliques but back in the day the two were inseparable.  When they get the news that the […]

THE GOOD BOSS MOVIE REVIEW It has to be hard to be the boss… the head honcho… the big cheese. Whatever pet name you have for your superior at work, just know that they have a tough life. Making sure your employees are satisfied with their work/life balance, meeting deadlines with the warehouse, and even […]

THE ORVILLE: NEW HORIZONS SERIES REVIEW The Orville: New Horizons. Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterpri- oh, wait sorry! Wrong show! Ok, Let’s try that again. After a three-year hiatus, The Orville is back and…maybe better than ever? Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) and his intrepid crew continue their exploration […]

RISE OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE MOVIE The year is 2044. An alien invasion has conquered the planet. In a last ditch effort to save the last vestiges of humanity, a young man is sent backwards in time to the point where the apocalypse started, and find the allies that will ultimately save […]

ALLEGORIA MOVIE REVIEW Art. What is art? What is art at its very core essence? Art is the expression of human creativity and imagination. It is the power of creation, and, in turn, is one of the few ways that we, as mere mortals, hold the power of the gods. But what happens when the […]

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY SEASON 3 REVIEW The Hargreeves family is finally back from their jaunt through 1960s Dallas and into the present day. Or so they think. The third season of Netflix’s adaptation of the Dark Horse comic from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá picks up from where we last left our dysfunctional family as they […]

THE DUKE MOVIE REVIEW Truth is so very often stranger than fiction, and that’s why true events sometimes make truly fantastic films. And when you have the likes of British acting royalty such as Dame Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, and direction from the wonderful Roger Michell (Notting Hill), you’re in such capable hands, it would […]