The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Review – The show’s best effort since its glory days
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before: A lonely, world-weary cloaked man finds himself an unlikely bond with a child who some claim is the future savior of a post-apocalyptic world where survivors struggle to reach they are alive Together, the man and the child embark on a road trip that may bring them […]
Expendables 4 Review – They Made Another
The Expendables franchise is no longer with us. These films are meant to serve as an homage to the silly, low-rent action movies of the 80s and 90s, when many of our biggest action stars made their names. But if the franchise is going to continue after a nine-year hiatus, Expendables 4 (officially called Expend4bles) […]
Gen V review – Boys’ cynicism and cynicism, now with more compassion
Gen V is a spin-off of The Boys. This is both a fact about the show and a warning. It’s an incredibly violent and gory show, and you’ll see more than one bare penis on screen during the eight-episode first season. At the same time, it’s a more focused story that knows how to use […]
Loki Season 2 Review – Complicated
The second season of Loki is an exemplary example of the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe these days. As a production, it is flawless. It’s well done with even better production design than the first season, we have a brilliant cast without any annoying characters, and it doesn’t overdo the fake CGI sets. As […]
The Exorcist: Believer Review – Scary, but all too familiar
What’s the point of a new Exorcist movie in 2023, 50 years after the original? For the studio, the answer is easy: It’s a well-known brand that can be reinvigorated like Halloween has been in recent years. For David Gordon Green, the director responsible for both the Halloween revival and The Exorcist: Believer, the answer […]
Goosebumps Review (Disney Plus/Hulu Series) – A wonderfully scary and thoroughly mature introduction
The Disney+ show Goosebumps has to be one of the biggest surprises of the year. As a reimagining of RL Stine’s bestselling book series, it offers more than just modernized versions of classic stories. Instead, Goosebumps leans into the darker side of its clever plot, with scares enhanced by a talented cast and decent special/action […]
Killers Of The Flower Moon review – not long enough
Killers of the Flower Moon comes with a pair of bookshelves that play to me like a Martin Scorsese director who has accepted defeat. The film opens with an old newsreel that vaguely tells us about the wealth of the Osage people, how an oil deposit in the Osage land gave these Native Americans great […]
Review of Five Nights At Freddy’s – Too Much Plot
When Five Nights at Freddy’s was originally greenlit eight years ago, the task of adapting this video game into a movie was much simpler. This was still true when the series first started, it had no meaningful information, and was just a silly story about a night watchman trying to survive a week with a […]
Invincible Season 2 Episode 1 Review – As Wild as You Remember
After nearly two decades of Marvel movies, we’re starting to see superhero stories dissected and get the attention they deserve. Prime Video seems to be at the center of this shift, with live-action series like The Boys and Gen V and animated series like Invincible offering sophisticated deconstructions of the genre. In addition to this […]
