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SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF SERIES REVIEW What’s up subspace travelers? If you don’t know who Scott Pilgrim is, stop reading this, pick up the comics and watch Edgar Wright’s movie… Are you finished? Did you get all the plot points? Great, now forget everything you just learned because Scott Pilgrim Takes Off has nothing to […]

LOKI SEASON 2 REVIEW Previously, on Loki: Sylvie (Sophia D Martino) has slain He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) at the end of all time and Sparta-kicked our titular Loki (Tom Hiddleston) through a time portal. Now Loki keeps on slipping into the past, present and future of the TVA, our own reality, and variant timelines. […]

GEN V SERIES REVIEW To live up to your full potential and discover what your purpose is in life you gotta go to the right college. What is the right college for a kid that can spontaneously combust or shrink to the size of a cricket? The answer is Godolkin University! Visit the official website […]

RESERVATION DOGS SEASON 3 REVIEW Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s Reservation Dogs returns to Hulu for its third and final season. We last left the dogs stranded at a beach in California after the four bid farewell to their friend Daniel. Bear Smallhill (D’Pharaoh Woon A-Tai) says he is not returning to the reservation and […]

SHE CAME TO ME MOVIE REVIEW You know what they say: you can’t spell opera without Oh, perhaps a saucy affair is in order. Writer/director Rebecca Miller presents She Came to Me. Brilliant composer of transcendent operas Steven Lauddem (Peter Dinklage) is a suffering artist who has come down with a horrible case of writer’s […]

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 […]

GOLDA MOVIE REVIEW Golda Meir was the Israeli prime minister from 1969 to 1974. During her service she made life or death decisions that would label her as a bloodthirsty tyrant to some and the Iron Lady Israel doing what’s best for her country by others. The film about her is directed by Guy Nattiv […]

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 […]

CORNER OFFICE MOVIE REVIEW Pour a drip of hurt, clock in, cram yourself into a cubicle, and start living with purpose. After all, without the rat race and daily grind of nine to five we’d have all the free time in the world to love, laugh, cry, smile, hope, despair, and dream. Have ever seen […]

BLACK MIRROR SEASON 6 REVIEW After taking a break from the series while we all dealt with a pandemic, because, as creator Charlie Brooker said, “The world is too depressing right now, I don’t want to add to the misery,” Black Mirror returns with it’s sixth installment and five new entries into the anthology series. […]

AMERICAN BORN CHINESE REVIEW Long long ago in a galaxy that can be referred to as our very own, the greatest classic Chinese novels were written. Journey to the West, attributed to author Wu Cheng’en is about the pilgrimage of the Tang Dynasty’s Buddhist monk Xuanzang and his travel to the western regions from Central […]

WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS SERIES REVIEW The Watergate scandal back in the early 70s led to the resignation of president Richard Nixon. Are you under 30? You probably recognize that president from Futurama as portrayed by Billy West. Turn off that cartoon and dive into some historical dramatic comedy. The former CIA agent and current author […]

DEAD RINGERS SERIES REVIEW Which statement makes you more uneasy? “My gynecologist called and they want me to come in” or “David Cronenberg is filming a new body horror character study”. What if I told you that those two statements are one and the same in the amazon Cronenberg remake mini series Dead Ringers. Elliot […]

MAFIA MAMMA MOVIE REVIEW If someone offered me a viewing of a new film by a director who is a part of a billion dollar global phenomenon with Toni Collette as the lead, they’d be making an offer I couldn’t refuse! Mafia Mamma, directed by Catherine Hardwicke follows Kristin (Toni Collette), an empty nester with […]

THE LAST OF US SERIES REVIEW Neil Druckmann takes his blockbuster video game from the small screen to…the other part of the small screen. Pedro Pascal stars as Joel and Bella Ramsey stars as Ellie in a world ravaged by mutated cordyceps that turns anyone infected into a mindless zombie. The continental United States is […]

THE PALE BLUE EYE MOVIE REVIEW There will always be a willing and vivacious audience for the bloody twists and turns of crime dramas. Netflix could indeed indulge in presenting an offshoot streaming service with their abundance of murder serials, documentaries of men with malicious intent, and motion pictures of scandal and treachery. However when […]

RICK AND MORTY SEASON 6 REVIEW Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s multiverse-traveling Doc Brown and Marty McFly animated absurdist satirical comedy is back for it’s sixth season. You get the returning voice talents of Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, and Sarah Chalke and loaded with a community of cameos such as Jack Black, Daniel […]

THE WHITE LOTUS SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Welcome back to The White Lotus, a crown jewel of luxury, this time nestled in Sicilian town of Taormina. There’s new faces but don’t worry, everything isn’t black and white. Speaking of White, of the Mike variety… Mike White returns to write and direct all 7 episodes and […]

CHUCKY SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Some dolls never know when to give up. Of course, why would they? When Chucky now has his soul split into many different Chucky dolls that seem to have evolved into specific personality types? They’re all still after the three kids, Jake, Devon, and Lexy. And to make it easier […]

ATLANTA SEASON 4 SERIES REVIEW From knock off marketplace FuBu shirts, to massive fat stacks and investment plans, childhood obligations of looking out for blood, to the family for life you’d choose for yourself, and on-again-off-again relationships with your baby’s mama, to seeing that love as more than the mother of your child but as […]

WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY MOVIE REVIEW It appears that Hollywood’s appetite for the musical biopic is truly insatiable. We’ve seen many a superstar receive the rise-and-fall biopic treatment, starting from their humble beginnings through their meteoric ascension, their drug-addled nosedive and eventually their triumphant return to the spotlight. It’s a tale as old as […]

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS SEASON 3 REVIEW Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 boldly goes (again) into the realm of comedy, with enough gags, easter eggs, cameos, and deep cut references to fill the hold of a California-class starship. Season 2 ended on an uncharacteristically bleak cliffhanger, with Captain Freeman under arrest for having destroyed […]

GAME OF THRONES: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SERIES REVIEW In 2019, Winter came in like a wrecking ball and left with a whimper. Ice King’s melted, bastards were battled, and democracy for the elite had come to Westeros. 200 years before, an internal succession war waged on with in the halls of the house Targaryen. […]

RESERVATION DOGS SEASON 2 REVIEW Twas only a year ago that Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi graced the TV world with their FX series Reservation Dogs. Well before the first season completed its run, Reservation Dogs had already cemented itself as one of the most entertaining and original shows of 2021. Fans were elated when […]

THE REHEARSAL SERIES REVIEW Nathan Fielder of Nathan For You fame turns the cameras on the individual as he attempts to solve people’s problems by allowing them to rehearse them. As always, Nathan goes to great and sometimes unorthodox lengths to help the participants. Things don’t go off the rails so much as the rails […]