Category: Pop Culture
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Review: The Boys, Season 3, Episode 7
After last week’s “Herogasm” blowout (blow-up?), The Boys took things down a notch this week to spend an episode focusing on how the various characters deal with the fallout from. Homelander, ego (and face) bruised, pays a visit to the (unsurprisingly) still-alive Maeve, who’s been imprisoned in a room similar to the one Homelander was…
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Review: The Boys, Season 3, Episode 6
This was a good episode – great, even. Of course, in many ways, it was also mind-scaldingly disturbing. Let’s dive in. Starting with the odd plot out: the Frenchie/Little Nina conflict escalated this week, with the Russian gangsteress chaining our boy to a pole with a bike lock like she’s Walter White. Instead of offering…
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Tier List: James Bond Movie Titles
S TIER Thunderball – I fucking love this title. Maybe because it makes me think of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” the background track to one of my favorite drinking games. It also sounds like a euphemism for Pikachu’s ballsack. Octopussy – Objectively speaking, the best title in cinematic history. A TIER From Russia with Love –…
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Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Part 6
Let’s pick the fly out of the ointment first: this episode’s timeline was fucked in half. Last we saw of Reva, she was lying on the floor of an abandoned hangar on some shitty dust planet with a broken lightsaber[1] and only a busted hologram of Jimmy Smits to keep her company. As awesome as…
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Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Part 5
Hayden’s back, baby! Woo! I hit the air with a solid fist pump when he showed up at the top of the episode for a (flashback) lightsaber duel with Obi-Wan.[1] Enjoyable, certainly, despite the less-than-fantastic CGI de-aging effects used on both characters. The show’s editing, usually nothing to write home about, really stood out with…
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Life’s a Food Fight: The Existential Max Keeble
It’s generally undisputed that Max Keeble’s Big Move is a kids’ movie. It’s got all the hallmarks: crotch kicks, a mischievous chimpanzee, a sadistic middle school principal, the fat Josh Peck, and a relatable ostrich-riding preteen hero with a master plan to save the day. By most standards, it’s pure, unapologetic Disney schlock. Something to…
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Review(s): The Boys, Season 3, Eps. 4 & 5
Episode Four: “Glorious Five Year Plan” The Boys stayed on-trend in Episode 4, with a collection of good performances, well-defined characters, and gruesomely funny action that was somewhat marred by the show’s odd pacing and occasional tendency to overemphasize tangential side plots. Butcher’s over-the-top management methods bore predictably poisoned fruit this episode, although the team…
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Review: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Part 4
No other way to say it: Obi-Wan Kenobi had an unfortunate dip in quality this week. Not that the sets or CGI looked bad; rather, Part 4 was less engaging than previous installments because so much of it felt like something we’ve seen before. The “rescue a character from an Imperial base” plot has been…
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Review: The Boys (Season 3), Episodes 1, 2, & 3
I don’t consider myself to be someone who shocks easily; I could give any number of examples of nasty-ass gross-out horror movies I’ve gotten through with no problem, but I’ll just say that I made it through Martyrs without vomiting more than twice and leave it at that. That said, this season of The Boys…
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Throwback Review: The Boys (Season 2)
With the third season of The Boys coming out soon, I thought it might be an appropriate time to dust off this old gem… In these uncertain times, it’s extremely important to maintain our mental health by distracting ourselves from the cascading mudslide of existential horrors that’s going on literally right now. Don’t think about…