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I’ve never been a huge fan of time travel Star Trek stories. Sure, you occasionally get a truly great one like “City on the Edge of Forever” in The Original Series, but more often than not, they end up like this one. A device to twist a historical moment in time into something that our […]
After I finished watching the fourth season premiere of Strange New Worlds, I will admit that I got nervous. This is how they’re opening the penultimate season of the show? And after a third season that was more miss than hit, it didn’t bode well for what was to come. After all, we still had […]
Homer’s Odyssey is one of the oldest surviving pieces of fiction. It serves as the source material for Christopher Nolan’s 13th film, with him making it into an epic fantasy with an ensemble cast. Odysseus (Matt Damon) is the king of Ithaca, and his genius led to the end of the 10-year-long Trojan War. His journey back […]
House of the Dragon has run up against an interesting issue in its third season – it’s running out of major plot points with which to drive the story forward while also refusing to take this time to flesh out its supporting cast in meaningful ways. The cast of House of the Dragon isn’t as […]
The Evil Dead series has returned with its sixth entry, and it’s the nastiest film in the series so far. Alice (Souheila Yacoub) is a recently widowed woman who is forced to spend time with her in-laws after her husband’s funeral. The tense atmosphere is made worse when the Prices start to become Deadites, and […]
I’ll admit that I had a hard time really getting into Lucky, the new thriller from AppleTV+ that is based on the novel of the same name. There’s a lot of action – car chases, foot races, hiding behind large vehicles whilst someone stalks around with a gun. And there’s a decent enough story being […]
There’s nothing all that original about Ride or Die, the new comedic thriller from Prime Video. When watching it, you’ll see nearly all of the twists coming. You likely won’t find it all that funny (sorry to the writers but “harried and manic” isn’t really a viable comedic styling). And the general conceit – two […]
Moana is the latest Disney animated classic to get the live-action remake treatment. This version gets Dwayne Johnson as the egotistical demigod Maui. Long ago, the demigod Maui stole the Heart of Te Fiti, resulting in a blight that spread across the world. This blight finally reaches Motunui, leading their crops to fail and fish […]
Night Nurse is the rare film that features exactly zero characters. Oh, there are plenty of people, to be sure. Most of them even have names! But that’s approximately where their definition stops. Each is a nurse at the same assisted living facility, the kind where the patients have complete freedom to roam and drive […]
Well, it appears that the Targaryens aren’t the only sadistic, power-hungry forces in Westeros. Ormund Hightower is pretty darn horrific in his own right. Although, anyone familiar with the goings on in Westeros likely wasn’t shocked to see that Alicent’s cousin, and guardian of her youngest son, Daeron, has his own designs on the Iron […]