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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, […]

THE SUN NEVER SETS MOVIE REVIEW During the summer time in some parts of Alaska, there are more than 15 hours of direct daylight. You might even say, much like the title of this new IFC release,  that The Sun Never Sets. Wendy (Dakota Fanning) loves camping, taking long hikes, breathing in the fresh air, […]

ALLEY CATS SERIES REVIEW Hold the chicken and toss out the liver. These cats don’t eat the domesticated posh cat food but do deliver comedy in casual conversation with little nuggets of wisdom. Netflix presents a six episode animated mini series about five cats and one kitten shoot’n the shit with the voices of English […]

TRASH IN THE CAN: INTENSIVE CARE This week, the boys head to the Netherlands for the gloriously goofy 1991 slasher Intensive Care. Filmmaker and stage director Jason Neulander joins us to discuss George Kennedy’s easiest paycheck, saxophone seduction, and an entire town’s lack of peripheral vision. Plus, Jason tells us about his new show, Treasure […]

DON’T SAY GOOD LUCK MOVIE REVIEW There are two kinds of people in this world; those who get excited when they see Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production slate appear before a film, and those who brace themselves for two hours of lowbrow schlock. While neither reaction is entirely warranted, Sandler can be a divisive figure […]

LIFE, LARRY AND THE PURSUIT OF UNHAPPINESS SERIES REVIEW The USA has been a country for 250 years and in that time it has gone through some pretty amazing moments. From the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the moon landing in 1969. Some of these major events in American history truly […]

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: BONUS EP.3 – FAYE’S CONTEMPORARIES On this third bonus episode of Hollywood Royalty, we take a small break from talking Faye to shine a light on a handful of her contemporaries, including Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Liza Minnelli, and Barbra Streisand, all of whom ruled the decade as some […]

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 […]

NIMRODS MOVIE REVIEW Do you have the time to listen to three teenagers whine? Inspired by stories from Green Day’s own pre-fame touring days, Nimrods follows Tommy, Fred, and Chad, three Kansas City teenagers whose garageband, The Analog Dogs, receives the opportunity of a lifetime: open for Green Day on New Year’s Eve in Los […]

THE DEVIL’S MOUTH MOVIE REVIEW A wise Pixar fish once sang, “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.” It’s a clever mantra reminding us all that when the storm hits, you’ve gotta hold onto hope and never give up. Amazon Prime presents The Devil’s Mouth, a survival-horror shark attack film set in the beautiful country of […]

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 […]

72 HOURS MOVIE REVIEW Another week, another Netflix comedy. And yes, another Netflix comedy starring Kevin Hart. In 72 Hours, Hart plays Joe, a forty-something advertising executive whose career needs a defibrillator. When he accidentally lands in a group chat for a Gen Z bachelor party, he crashes their three-day Miami blowout hoping to save […]

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 […]

ONE NIGHT ONLY MOVIE REVIEW Filing under the ‘we are running out of ideas for this genre’ department, in One Night Only the premise is that a conservative government has outlawed premarital sex. But one night a year, there’s a “The Purge” but for sex, where (as long as you use protection, which you’ll have to […]

CAPE FEAR SERIES REVIEW Based on John D. MacDonald’s 1957 novel The Executioners, and later adapted for the big screen in 1962 and 1991, Cape Fear introduced audiences to one of cinema’s most memorable monsters, Max Cady, a vengeful ex-con terrorizing the innocent Bowden family. Both the source novel and the original film were lean […]

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: BONUS EP.2- HURRY SUNDOWN/THE DEADLY TRAP On this bonus episode of Hollywood Royalty, we take a look at two of Faye’s B-sides, a pair of films that don’t readily come to mind when you think of Faye Dunaway. The first of the two titles, 1967’s Hurry Sundown for director Otto Preminger, represents Faye’s […]

THE DINK MOVIE REVIEW John McEnroe once said “I’m not a convert to pickleball, I think it sucks”. Pickleball is a very simple activity that’s a lot like badminton, paddle ball, and table tennis on a smaller court and is much easier on the muscles and joints. Apple Plus’ new sports comedy about the sport […]

MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED SERIES REVIEW Camboy (plural camboys): noun – A man who publishes webcam photographs or videos of himself. Apple Plus presents a series starring former She-Hulk Tatiana Maslany as Paula. She’s a single mother with a laptop and private relationship with a camboy named Trevor. Paula doesn’t seem like the type. She has […]

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY After the spell caused everyone to forget who he is, Peter (Tom Holland) has fully submerged himself in being Spider-Man all of the time. Constantly on the prowl for crime, he still is haunted by the loss of his friendship with Ned (Jacob Batalon) and his girlfriend M.J. (Zendaya) who are […]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT SEASON 1 REVIEW String and tune up the guitar for utter chaos. Whether you’re a groupie, a new listener, or a tourist that wandered off from the group tour. Time to mosh in the pit, and wail along with the children of the night, oh what music they make. AMC Plus presents […]

THE BEAR SEASON 5 REVIEW The kitchen is closing for one final service. The Bear returns for its fifth and final season, with Carmy, Sydney, Richie, Sugar, Marcus, Tina, and the rest of the crew racing against the clock to prove that The Bear can become the restaurant they’ve all sacrificed so much to build. […]

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER SEASON 2 Team Avatar is back on the road! Their destination is Ba Sing Se, an Earth Kingdom city where the Avatar Aang (Gordon Cormier) can learn earth bending from a master. Netflix is back on the live action adaptation track by bringing to life one of the most popular animated […]

ENOLA HOLMES 3 MOVIE REVIEW Sherlock Holmes once said “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”. Netflix’s popular film franchise Enola Holmes is up to three installments now with Enola Holmes 3! Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) is getting married to long time friend, first time finance, Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge) though she may have […]