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THE TESTAMENTS SERIES REVIEW Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel The Testaments is a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale that was over 3 decades in the making. It’s now been brought to life through a ten episode series on Hulu/Disney Plus starring a cast of on the rise. Praise be! The young plum Agnes (Chase Infiniti) has […]

EUPHORIA SEASON 3 REVIEW Oh the places you’ll go! is a lovely book by Dr. Seuss about how the future is a hopeful vast landscape of opportunities. When it comes to season three of Euphoria, those places are limited to a dead marriage, prison, or even the grave. A few years after high school, Rue’s […]

THE COMEBACK SEASON 3 Covid restrictions, writers strikes, the ever looming threat on the horizon of AI taking away jobs…How’s an Emmy winning actor supposed to find work? The third season of the cult series on HBO The Comeback explores this, and features Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish. After walking out on a lead role […]

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 […]

THRASH MOVIE REVIEW It’s been 4 decades since Jaws chomped beach goers to an iconic John Williams score. Netflix is reminding us that it’s still not safe to get back into the water with the survival horror original feature Thrash. Dr. Dale Edwards (Djimon Hounsou) is an expert on the oldest predator on the planet, […]

ONE PIECE SEASON 2 REVIEW Hoist the colours and set sail into the long time coming season two of One Piece streaming on Netflix, adapted from the still ongoing manga and anime by Eiichiro Oda. Even if you are not a fan of the magnum manga opus but you are a fan of swashbuckling adventures, […]

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S SEVEN DIALS MINISERIES REVIEW For countless years, master storyteller and queen of the “who done it” genre, Agatha Christie, has entertained and thrilled us with her mysteries. Even if you’ve never read a single story, you’re almost certainly familiar with her thanks to countless adaptations and homages through television, film, and plays. With [&#82...

THE WRECKING CREW MOVIE REVIEW Abraham Maslow once said “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail”. These two brothers just vacated the home depot, and there was a sale on sledgehammers. Also, the hardware store was exploding! Amazon Prime […]

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 […]

THE RIP MOVIE REVIEW When it comes to Hollywood power couples, there aren’t many that have stood the test of time or the pressures of the star machine better and longer than Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and they’ve reunited once again in a tightly wound crime thriller directed by Joe Carnahan. The Rip unfolds […]

STRANGER THINGS – SEASON 5 VOLUME 2 REVIEW Once again, Netflix has dropped another volume of Stranger Things Season 5 episodes on a major holiday, and once again our reviewers took a break from their vacation plans to binge these three new episodes and record their thoughts ahead of the feature-length finale scheduled to drop […]

IT: WELCOME TO DERRY SERIES REVIEW Sister duo “Patience and Prudence” sang the cheerful tune A Smile and a Ribbon which said “A smile is something special, a ribbon is something rare. So I’ll be special and I’ll be rare with a smile and a ribbon in my hair.” Decades have passed since the ironically […]

THE ABANDONS SERIES REVIEW ‘The way of the gun’ crashes against the power of wealth while the law watches with a big bucket of popcorn in this Netflix series by The Shield and Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, The Abandons. Fiona Nolan (Lena Headey) is a ruthless calculating homesteader who adopted several orphans to […]

TRAIN DREAMS MOVIE REVIEW Denis Johnson once said “If you write fiction, you’re by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don’t have to explain anything to anybody”. An adaptation of one of Johnson’s most cherished novellas is now streaming on Netflix, Train Dreams. Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) is a man living […]

MARVEL ZOMBIES SERIES REVIEW The dead have risen… and they’ve got superpowers. Marvel Zombies shambles onto Disney Plus, expanding the fan-favorite What If…? episode that first teased this gruesome alternate Marvel universe. Inspired by the 2005 comic series by Robert Kirkman, the animated show imagines a world where a zombie virus infects Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, […]

THE THREESOME MOVIE REVIEW Have you ever had a crush on someone for so long that you’d be willing to do anything just to hook up with them intimately? Even agree to a third person being invited to the bedroom? Director Chad Hartigan and writer Ethan Ogilby answer this question with a sexy cast in […]

HAPPY GILMORE 2 MOVIE REVIEW Creed, Maverick, The Colour of Money. All defined in film terms as “The Legacy Sequel”. Whether it’s an entirely new Star Wars trilogy or Ridley Scott milking his ideas before a big fan of the franchise on the come-up in tinseltown does it for him. The legacy sequel is front-loaded […]