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DUNE PROPHECY SERIES REVIEW In 2021 a charismatic film maker named Denis Villeneuve began his quest in the box office, left dry and deserted by the ravages of the pandemic. By 2024, WB studios beared witness, as he rode the mighty sandworm of financial success. The studio that brought about the recently successful film spin-off […]

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS – THE FINAL SEASON REVIEW Every journey begins with a first step and every voyage of a starship ends with a final frontier.  Paramount presents the final season of the Starfleet crew on the California Class USS Cerritos on the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks.  A lot has happened across […]

THE PARAGON MOVIE REVIEW One day you’re crossing the street and the next day you’re eating blue gloppy glippy gloop, going through intensive montage training to stop a conspiracy that transcends the dimension you thought you knew, and befriending a conspiracy theorist that looks like she does her occult make up on a moving train. […]

U ARE THE UNIVERSE MOVIE REVIEW What would you do if you were an astronaut on a deep space mission and discovered the Earth had blown up? If you were Ukrainian space trucker Andriy, then probably not much different. You’d continue to tolerate terrible dad jokes from your onboard robot trying to cheer you up, […]

ALIEN: ROMULUS MOVIE REVIEW On an incredibly crap mining planet job, Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and her ‘brother’, the mentally simple android Andy (David Jonsson), are coming to terms with the fact that the Weyland-Yutani Corporation has no intention of letting their contract finish and they’re going to be stuck there probably till they die. Teaming […]

STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE SERIES REVIEW The Knights of One Of Us, Melina, Neil, and TC, gather in the Jedi Council Chambers to discuss the newest entry in the Star Wars canon, The Acolyte. This mystery-thriller tells the dark tale of of Mae (Amandla Stenberg), an assassin of Jedi who has been trained in the […]

STAR TREK DISCOVERY – SEASON 5 REVIEW These are the voyages of the starship Discovery. Its five-season mission: to set-up spin-off shows; to seek out new fans and new demographics, to boldly go where no Trek series has gone before: the streaming era! While some may prefer the episodic format of Strange New Worlds, the […]

ATLAS MOVIE REVIEW Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), is an analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence. She has committed her life to Blade Runn-er-um-searching for fugitive AI terrorists, specifically Harlan (Simu Liu), the AI who gained sentience 28 years ago and led a robot rebellion that left 3 million Earthlings dead before military forces […]

NEW LIFE MOVIE REVIEW Once upon a time you dressed so fine. Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you? People say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall.’ You thought they were all kidding you. You used to laugh about everybody that was hanging out. Now you don’t talk so loud. Now you […]

STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH SEASON 3 REVIEW In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch follows Hunter, Cross Hair, Wrecker, Tech, and Echo, a unique squad of clone troopers with genetic mutations who resisted Order 66 and go on the run in the early days of the Galactic Empire. They are joined […]

FALLOUT SERIES REVIEW Hey there vault dwellers. I know it’s been a bit much being confined to a Vault-Tec vault for over 2 centuries, but we think it’s time that you zipped up your jumpsuit and wander out to the Wasteland. There’s raiders, rad roaches, and these cute little things called Yao Guai (basically giant, […]

BOY KILLS WORLD MOVIE REVIEW Take one part chiseled action hero, one part post-apocalyptic ‘Running Man‘ wasteland, and the 3rd project Sharlto Copley has been in this year. What do you get? Boy Kills World starring our ever favorite Pennywise the clown, Bill Skarsgard! Skarsgard stars as Boy, a deaf-mute man riddled with grief and […]

PARASYTE: THE GREY SERIES REVIEW My skin is not my own! You know the quote, but how do you know it? It’s like the word Ewok; sometimes we just know stuff. Or perhaps the alien inside you shared the knowledge with you in a dream. Parasyte The Grey is a live-action Netflix miniseries adapted from […]

3 BODY PROBLEM SERIES REVIEW Move over Newton, that three body problem of yours isn’t just for discussing the moon’s motion about the earth under the influence of the sun anymore. Hugo winning Sci-Fi masterpiece The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu has been adapted into a netflix series titled 3 Body Problem by the Game […]

SPACEMAN MOVIE REVIEW When you see that the director, cinematographer, and composer from Chernobyl have gotten back together to work on a feature film about a lonely cosmonaut on a solo space mission toward a mysterious cosmic body that has suddenly appeared just beyond Jupiter, and a story about a man who, in his loneliness […]

DUNE PART 2 MOVIE REVIEW It’s part two time for the latest adaptation of Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi novel Dune, and sadly, the theater that Chris, Wright, and Marco saw it at did not have the sandworm fleshlight popcorn buckets. But we were still all in for this even better second half of the tale. […]

I.S.S. MOVIE REVIEW A group of astronauts and cosmonauts are working together in friendship (and in some cases, more than that) aboard the International Space Station when WWIII between Russia and America breaks out on Earth. The leader of each team gets a private message, ‘Secure the I.S.S. by any means necessary’. Now THAT’S a […]

REBEL MOON PART ONE: CHILD OF FIRE A village in need. Slow-motion action. A team of heroes. Space horses. Glowy swords. A robot named Jimmy. Even more slow-motion action. Zack Snyder’s latest film, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, dropped on Netflix a couple of weeks ago and drew A LOT of […]

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 […]

AHSOKA SERIES REVIEW Rosario Dawson returns to the role she’s been destined to play since her appearances in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano. After the fall of the Galactic Empire, the former Jedi Knight (and easily one of the most beloved characters in the new EU) investigates an emerging threat […]

RESTORE POINT MOVIE REVIEW In Prague in the year 2041, new tech allows people to upload their consciousness at regular intervals so in case they are killed, they can be resurrected with their memories up to that point intact. The catch is, if you don’t back up within 48 hours, you can’t legally be brought […]

THE CREATOR MOVIE REVIEW From the director of Godzilla and Rogue One comes this new sci-fi film NOT based on a previous IP (at least not overtly), The Creator. In the future, the humanoid robots humanity have built have achieved total sentience, despite most of the world’s reluctance to accept their ‘humanity’. After a nuclear […]

INFESTATION: FANTASTIC FEST 2023 – MARTIN THOMAS REVIEWS We pulled in our old friend and Chris’s old co-worker from Spill dot com, Martin Thomas, to give his perspective on this year’s Fantastic Fest, his first in a decade. Martin, Chris, and Wright talk about the films The Origin, Strange Darling, Cobweb, River, Fishmonger, The Last […]

THEY CLONED TYRONE MOVIE REVIEW I don’t know if you are aware of this, but the United States has a history of oppressing those who are not white/anglo-saxons. I know, crazy to read in print but it’s true. Trail of Tears, the Tulsa Massacre, the Tuskegee experiments, Japanese internment camps during WWII, the list goes […]

STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 2 REVIEW The second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues our five year mission with Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the starship Enterprise in the 23rd century, a decade before Star Trek: The Original Series. This season offers some fantastic looks at some truly classic scenarios: A […]