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RAISED BY WOLVES SEASON 2 REVIEW Season 2 of Raised By Wolves proves that it’s still one of the strangest shows on television. The story follows Mother and Father (Amanda Collin and Abubakar Salim), a pair of androids programmed to raise human children on a remote planet after a religious war leaves 22nd century Earth […]

EUPHORIA SEASON 2 SERIES REVIEW Euphoria is back with season 2 and the further examination of the life of an American teen. But not, like, the life of an American teen you see on network shows where hard lessons are learned and the melodrama is scored by whatever pop song is currently topping the Gen-Z […]

THE GIRL BEFORE SERIES REVIEW Based on the sexy thriller written by J. P. Delaney, The Girl Before is a character examination of the inner houses we call our souls and what sort of portraits we hang on the walls of our hearts. But it features plenty of long legs and chiseled abs as well. […]

PEACEMAKER SERIES REVIEW Continuing on where the post-credits scene in The Suicide Squad left off, this HBO Max eight-episode series explores what happens next for the anti-hero Peacemaker (John Cena) after his hospitalization. Of course, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) isn’t going to let him go that easy and there are some of her subordinates, Jennifer […]

KIMI MOVIE REVIEW While the Squad recorded this review, there’s a good chance that they were also being recorded by at least two other devices in their places of residence. Between Siri, Google, Alexa, and several other pieces of technology in all our lives (and probably at least one government agency) someone is ALWAYS listening, […]

STATION ELEVEN SERIES REVIEW The end of the world never looked more Shakespearean than it does in HBO Max’s newest miniseries Station Eleven. Adapted from the book by Emily St. John Mandel, the story occurs as a deadly flu virus spreads across the globe (unusually timely given the fact this was written and partially filmed […]

SEARCH PARTY SEASON 5 SERIES REVIEW Welcome to Search Party Season 5! This week’s specials are Avocado Toast with Hot Baby hot sauce and a side of near-death experience induced Armageddon. Turns out Dory, Drew, Porsche, and Elliot are poised to pull the rug out on the whole of humanity with “enlightenment in a pill”, […]

LANDSCAPERS MINISERIES REVIEW In 2014 Susan & Christopher Edwards were convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison. To this day, they maintain their innocence. Landscapers is the dramatized retelling of their story. The couple killed Susan’s parents and buried them in the rear garden of the elderly couple’s home. […]

SUCCESSION SEASON 3 TV SERIES REVIEW “Succession” has concluded its latest season and we finally got a chance to sink our teeth into it. Following the bombshell Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) dropped concerning Waystar’s cruise line controversy, he has found a renewed desire to dethrone his tyrannical father Logan (Brian Cox) to become the company’s […]

SANTA INC SERIES REVIEW Merry Christmas you f****** animals! Are you ready to deck the halls with your balls(ack)? Sorry to be so vulgar… There’s this new show streaming on HBO Max called “Santa Inc.”, and oh boy… are there a lot of words that parents will have to explain to the little ones. If […]

DOOM PATROL SEASON 3 SERIES REVIEW Time to get weird again as we dive into the third season of HBO Max’s adaptation of DC Comics’ “Doom Patrol”. After having its second season cut short due to the pandemic, the new batch of episodes starts off with wrapping up what was left hanging last year before […]

KING RICHARD MOVIE REVIEW You know what the world needed? A biopic on the backstory of Venus and Serena Williams’…… father. Set in the early 1990’s, we follow Richard Williams (Will Smith) as he tirelessly trains his girls to become tennis greats. However, he is no ordinary stage parent. He is determined to make sure […]

DUNE MOVIE REVIEW “Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.” This was our critics mantra before sitting down to watch this latest adaptation of (the first half) of Frank Herbert’s seminal and essential sci-fi […]

WELLINGTON PARANORMAL SERIES REVIEW “What We Do in the Shadows”, the American spin-off of the movie of the same name, is huge right now, to be sure. But did you know there was ANOTHER spin-off series of the original film? “Wellington Paranormal” is a New Zealand series (now on HBO) following those two bumbling cops […]

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK – A SOPRANOS STORY MOVIE REVIEW The first new piece of “Sopranos” media in over a decade is here with “The Many Saints of Newark.” Serving as a prequel to the series, we follow Christopher Moltisanti’s father Dickie (Alessandro Nivola) in 1960’s Newark as part of the DiMeo crime family. […]

CRY MACHO MOVIE REVIEW Yes, this new film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood made me cry. Not because it made me feel sad, or touched me, it’s just that poor Clint is SO OLD now, I was afraid for him the way you’re afraid when your grandfather walks down the stairs slowly and painfully. […]

MALIGNANT MOVIE REVIEW In director/co-writer James Wan’s latest foray into schlocky fun spoopyness, Annabelle Wallis plays Madison, who after finding her abusive husband has been murderized to an extreme degree by some sort of…shape, starts having experiences where she seems to be able to see other murders as they happen from this black-clad, superhumanly agile […]

REMINISCENCE MOVIE REVIEW Hey kids! Do you like “Westworld”? Do you like its novel storytelling approach, it’s tight structure and it’s ability to be both realistic and futuristic at the same time? Then you probably won’t like “Reminiscence”. Then again, maybe you will. If that sounds conflicting, it’s because this noir-ish romantic thriller from “Westworld” [&#...

THE WHITE LOTUS SERIES REVIEW Sunny Skies greet the guests and workers at The White Lotus resort in Hawaii but storms soon set in over this cast of quirky and demented characters. Steve Zahn and Connie Britton are a father and highly successful mother taking their son (Fred Hechinger), daughter (Sydney Sweeney), and her friend […]

THE SUICIDE SQUAD MOVIE REVIEW James Gunn slides on over to pick up the reigns at DC with this second “Suicide Squad” film and the anticipation level, for those of us who dig Gunn’s whole thing, loved his “Guardians of the Galaxy” films AND his pre-big budget crazier fare, was sky high. His version of […]

SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY MOVIE REVIEW After twenty long years, Warner Bros has released their theatrical length HBO Max commercial that just so happens to use “Space Jam” as the focus point. More accurately, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” follows LeBron James as himself having issues with his son Dom, who wants to become […]

ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN MOVIE REVIEW Anthony Bourdain, the beloved chef and TV personality who left us before we could really know him, is given a first class documentary tribute courtesy of director Morgan Neville (“Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” “20 Feet From Stardom”). The film offers a sweeping look at Bourdain’s life […]

NO SUDDEN MOVE MOVIE REVIEW Some filmmakers spend their retirement relaxing and enjoying their hobbies. Then you have Steven Soderbergh who retired from making movies so… he could make more movies? Regardless of whether he qualifies for senior discounts or not, Soderbergh has only grown more prolific during his supposed “retirement”. His latest feature, “No […]

IN THE HEIGHTS MOVIE REVIEW Lights up! Now on HBOMax and in theaters, Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony award winning musical “In The Heights” is now here. Starring “Hamilton” breakout star Anthony Ramos as Usnavi, a young bodega owner dreaming of leaving his hometown of Washington Heights as the neighborhood experiences a […]

THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT MOVIE REVIEW In this third film in the Conjuring series (but EIGHTH in the…conjurverse…dammit, you made me say it), Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. This time, it’s not a haunted house. The film begins with a little boy, who […]