Category: Pop Culture
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Review: Andor, Episodes 4-6
[Oh, yeah, there’s some spoilers in here, but I tried to avoid anything too specific…apart from the ending of Rogue One.] Something about these three episodes rubbed me the wrong way…but, much like the clitoris, I’m having a hard time putting my finger on it. Oh, well. Let’s give it the old college try. Andor’s…
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Review: RRR (Netflix)
Fuck yeah. This shit right here? It’s pretty damn good. I mean, it’s also completely bonkers, but since when is that a bad thing?[1] Even the dance number was entertaining, and I’m not usually one for those, particularly when they show up in the middle of a historical action epic (imagine what Braveheart would have…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 1-3 (Disney+)
Here’s a pitch that may or may not have actually happened: “this is a TV series that’s a prequel story about a character who dies in a separate prequel spinoff to a classic science fiction trilogy.” Or, if you want to be more specific: “it’s a series covering basically the entire adult life of one…
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Review: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix)
Some Important Context: The entirety of my experience with the Cyberpunk franchise consists of my time with Cyberpunk 2077 and, now, Edgerunners. I haven’t played the tabletop RPG but have heard it’s great; I’ve got a lot of respect for Mike Pondsmith for crafting such an engaging setting. Now, on to our regularly scheduled programming……
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Review Showdown: House of the Dragon (Eps. 1-4) vs. The Rings of Power (Eps. 1-3)
This contest is going to be organized a bit differently than the last[1] because I’ve made the executive decision to break the discussion into arbitrary categories – you may not know this, but Socrates used the same technique to pad out classroom time. I’ll assign a winner to each category and tally them up at…
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The Final Girl Support Group: A Zandor Review
If there are two things you need to know about Zandor, they are: 1) he is enthralled by anything and everything related to 1980’s horror, and 2) he speaks exclusively in the third person. So, when Zandor first heard the title of Grady Hendrix’s most recent horror novel, The Final Girl Support Group, he was…
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Review Showdown: The Gray Man (Netflix) vs. The Terminal List (Prime Video)
Yes, I know one of them is a movie and the other is a TV show. Thematically, though, the two properties are similar enough to warrant comparison: both stories are centered on laconic special forces types who are on the run after being betrayed by their superiors; the leading man has to rely on a…
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Review: Prey (2022) (Hulu)
Don’t you just hate it when the protagonist of your movie does action stuff while simultaneously having a vagina? It’s the worst thing since botulism. I actively felt my T-levels lowering while watching Prey, as if I was eating a sandwich made of estrogen and white guilt. I want my action films to be like…
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Review: Resident Evil (Netflix)
Remember when I opened up about my collection of Lance Reddick body pillows? I saw that as a fun way of connecting with my audience (and removing the stigma from gettin’ snuggly with Lance). What was the harm? Resident Evil was the harm. See, if I’m going to be able to show my face at…
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Review: The Boys, Season 3, Episode 8
[Updated 7/16: I put in more jokes and made some grammatical tweaks.] Let’s get into it. The Instant White-Hot Wild[1] starts with pedal firmly applied to metal: the government is preparing to search Vought Tower for information on Maeve’s whereabouts (thanks to Annie’s social media campaign). Can you imagine the shitshows that would ensue if…