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V/H/S MIXTAPE MOVIE REVIEW Shudder has got you covered for this season’s spooky screenings with the ninth segment of the popular anthology series V/H/S with V/H/S/Mixtape. The narrative that connects the horror shorts this time around is the heavy metal shock rock and roll band GWAR. The band have their own bizarrely disgusting wraparound narrative, […]

HAUNTED HOTEL SEASON 2 REVIEW Rest weary traveler and enjoy our continental breakfast. Whether you need a break from staring at the endless roads or need an impromptu episode for your struggling ghost hunter, there is nothing quite like a night at a hotel. Netflix presents its annual spooky animated hit, season two of Haunted […]

FUTURAMA SEASON 14 REVIEW An animated series that has survived more cancellations and network shuffling then South Park and Family Guy, Futurama is back on Hulu Plus for its alleged final season…allegedly. Fry, Leela, Bender, the Professor, Hermes, Amy, and Doctor Zoidberg are back with sci-fi adventures at the Planet Express, delivering your packages faster than […]

FORGOTTEN ISLAND MOVIE REVIEW Some friendships last forever. Others come with an expiration date, a magical portal, and a flying demon straight out of Filipino folklore. DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island follows lifelong best friends Jo (H.E.R.) and Raissa (Liza Soberano), two young women preparing to go their separate ways after graduating high school. But one […]

PRESIDENT CURTIS SERIES REVIEW Keith David’s foul-mouthed, no-nonsense President Andre Curtis is back, and this time he’s getting his own damn show! Spinning off from Rick and Morty, President Curtis follows the coolest commander-in-chief in the multiverse as he attempts to protect America from supernatural threats, extraterrestrial catastrophes, government conspiracies, and the occasi...

SAMURAI BALLERINA MOVIE REVIEW Ah, Paris! The City of Light. Where everyone starts the day with seven-foot-tall baguettes consumed with wine, and if you don’t work as a painter, professional lover, or mime, you seriously must rethink your life, you traitor to the Republic! Set in 1912, Fujiko, a young woman from a wealthy Japanese […]

LUCY LOST MOVIE REVIEW She doesn’t speak. She doesn’t remember her past. Yet somehow, she can see more than anyone else. Lucy is a mysterious girl living on a remote island in the Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall. Raised by a humble fishing family, she is the town’s outcast, accused of witchcraft […]

THE VIOLINIST MOVIE REVIEW The only greater thing then creating music, is creating it with a dear friend… and then World War II shows up to ruin everything. Set in 1930s Singapore, The Violinist follows Fei and Kai, two childhood friends who share a love for music and dream of becoming world-class violinists. But when […]

MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN SEASON 3 REVIEW Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a lot of anime references!? Season three of My Adventures with Superman stars Jack Quaid as the titular character, Superman! After saving the world from an evil alien invasion led by the methodically apathetic dictator Brainiac, […]

RICK AND MORTY SEASON 9 REVIEW Thirteen years after it launched into our pop culture, the adventures of the maddest of scientists and his family returns for another ten episodes of interdimensional hijinks and existential dread. Rick, Morty, Summer, Beth, and Jerry stumble through sentient technology, memory wipes, evolutionary nightmares, family trauma, questionable alien substances, […]

GATTO WORK IN PROGRESS REVIEW What the–? The new Pixar movie is already out?! Not quite! One of the great things about the Annecy Film Festival is getting to see Work in Progress presentations for upcoming features, with directors and artists sharing their secrets, progress, and the development behind their projects. Set in Venice, Gatto […]

BATMAN: KNIGHTFALL PT.1 REVIEW Batman is having a very, very bad week. Can’t catch a break! If rehabilitating the murderous vigilante Azrael wasn’t enough, some jerk named Bane sets all the inmates of Arkham free. Well, not all of them… there are some confusingly notable exceptions. Raised in prison and deluded by his late mother, […]

VIVA CARMEN! MOVIE REVIEW Everyone knows the music from Bizet’s Carmen—one of the world’s most famous operas! Bits of it have riffed their way into everything from trailers to soundtracks and parodies. And of course, everyone knows the classic story of Carmen…Anyone? The story of a beautiful Romani dancer, wanted by the law, who falls […]

COYOTE VS. ACME MOVIE REVIEW Originally scheduled for a summer 2023 release, Coyote Vs. Acme became something of a cause célèbre when Warner Bros announced they were shelving the film as part of a $30M tax write-off. The backlash from filmmakers and fans alike was swift, and eventually, Warner Bros relented. They agreed that the […]

THE OBSESSED MOVIE REVIEW “Are you in love with that girl?”, “No sir, I’m just very obsessed with her!”. Giuseppe loves the things he loves. Whenever something grabs his interest, he throws everything else away and devotes his life to his new passion. From singing and collecting bugs to the oddly specific hobby of “throwing […]

BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER SEASON 2 REVIEW When crime haunts the night, a silent crusader carries the torch of justice. He is vengeance. He is the night. He is Batman! For the second season, executive producers J.J. Abrams with Bruce Timm (creator of the iconic and award-winning Batman: The Animated Series) take us back to the […]

KING OF THE HILL – SEASON 15 REVIEW Dang ol’ new King of the Hill, man. Not just talkin’ about dang ol’ Hank bein’ back talkin’ about propane and propane accessories, talkin’ about new king as in Bobby Hill, man. Talkin’ ’bout season 15 on Hulu and Disney Plus, man. Last season, Hank and Peggy […]

AVATAR AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER MOVIE REVIEW Water. Earth. Fire. Air. 20 years after Nickelodeon gave us one of the greatest TV series of all-time, Team Avatar is back to the beloved animated continuity, catching up with an older Aang, Katara, Sokka, Toph, and Zuko as they navigate a world still healing from the Hundred […]

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA SEASON 4 REVIEW Doty, take this down. It has been a year since the Chroma Conclave ravaged its way through the land of Exandria, mightily bested by the noble warriors of Vox Machina. The threat of dragons gone, these brave adventurers seemingly decided to go back to the mundanity of […]

DEVIL MAY CRY SEASON 2 REVIEW The apocalypse has been cancelled and the white rabbit has missed his tea party, all thanks to the heroic endeavors of Dante (Johnny Yong Bosch) and Lady (Scout Taylor-Compton). There is no rest for the wicked however; Dante and Lady must team up again to stop the evil Mundus […]

SWAPPED MOVIE REVIEW Michael B. Jordan once said “That’s one of the fun parts of becoming an actor. You can become whoever you want to be.” After many acclaimed live action roles, including his oscar winning performances as twins named Smoke and Stack, Michael B. Jordan is giving his talents and voice to an animated […]

INVINCIBLE SEASON 4 SERIES REVIEW Everybody’s favorite Global Defence Agent justifies sketchy immoral methods by saying “We can be the good guys, or we can be the guys that save the world. We can’t be both”. Cecil’s code of conviction demands that the ends justify the means. Mark is done with that extreme way of […]

STAR WARS: MAUL – SHADOW LORD SERIES REVIEW Luke Skywalker once said “No one’s ever really gone,” and no other character in the Star Wars franchise has taken that to heart more than Darth Maul; a character that has canonically died twice(!) already. And yet, fans can’t seem to get enough of the former Sith […]

STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM ’85 SERIES REVIEW Just when you thought it was safe to cancel your Netflix subscription, Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 is back to deliver another shot of 80s nostalgia, or at least nostalgia for a streaming series that ended less than five months ago. Set between the events of seasons two […]

FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY’S END SEASON 2 REVIEW Jonathan Larson once pondered how one would measure a year. Cups of coffee, sunsets, laughter, strife? Regardless, a year is five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes. Frieren, and elf, by this measure is approximately five hundred twenty five million six hundred thousand minutes. Give or take […]