The previous episode of Rick and Morty, “Unmortricken” was a surprisingly serious and important episode. The follow-up episode “Rickfending Your Mort” aimed to lighten things after something so heavy. Rick has become depressed and dejected. To get him out of his funk, Morty attempts to cash in a load of his Adventure Cards. Rick questions this […]
Slow Horses Season Three Review
Slow Horses, the British spy series that has, calmly and quietly, becomes the best thing on AppleTV+ by a mile, is back for another round of intrigue and head-shaking screw-ups as the team of Slough House try to outsmart their latest adversaries and try not to take down all of MI5 with them. If you’ve […]
Thanksgiving Review
Many holidays have suffered from cinematic slasher villains. Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine’s Day are some of the most notable. Eli Roth has added to this seasonal sub-genre with his tongue-in-cheek gore fest Thanksgiving. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Black Friday sales at Right Mart go horribly wrong due to a lack of security, a group of […]
Doctor Who – The Star Beast Review
Full disclosure, if I had to pick a favorite season of the modern Doctor Who it would, without question, be season four. The relationship between the Doctor – played in this incarnation by David Tennant – and Donna – the impeccable Catherine Tate, showing she has the dramatic chops to more than match her comedic […]
The Hunger Games Retrospective: The Hunger Games
2012 was a monumental year for big-budget blockbusters. It saw the releases of films like The Avengers, Skyfall, and The Dark Knight Rises. It was also the year that saw the start of The Hunger Games film series. In the future, the nation of Panam has replace the United States. After a failed rebellion the Districts of Panam are […]
The Best Show You Aren’t Watching: Mrs. Davis
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A nun, who lives out in a convent in the middle of nowhere, is stalked by a world-famous AI algorithm and given a quest to find and destroy the Holy Grail. In exchange, the all-powerful AI will give the nun – who, coincidentally, blames the AI for the […]
Rick and Morty – Unmortricken Review
Rick and Morty’s seventh season has reached its halfway point. This episode was a special big lore episode that will have major repercussions. Rick and Morty have found a potential way to find Rick Prime by using his own equipment from “Solaricks.” However, their multiverse magnet disturbs Evil Morty and his retirement beyond the Central […]
The Crown Season Six (Part One) Review
The first half of The Crown’s sixth and final season covers, as you might expect based on where the series left things at the end of season five, the final weeks of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed’s life before their tragic death in Paris as well as the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. Alas, it […]
Britflix: Don’t Look Now
Don’t Look Now is one of the most revived British films of 1973 and an essential horror-thriller. Seeing that it is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and Pop Culture Maniacs has already celebrated The Exorcist and The Wicker Man’s 50th Anniversaries it seems fair to complete the unofficial horror trilogy. John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) are a […]
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Review
Before I dive into the review, I wanted to offer a quick note regarding my past experience with Godzilla-related media. I’ve never seen a single Godzilla film (or King Kong, or any other giant monster wreaks havoc on mankind film). So, while I will absolutely tell it like it is when it comes to the […]