Tag: Action
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The Eye of Argon: A Literary Analysis (Part 2)
Alright, so calling this an “analysis” is like calling what they serve at Arby’s “meat,” but that’s just life – sometimes the people you trust tell you horrible lies in order to get pageviews. Today we’ll be looking further into Jim Theis’ fantasy epic “The Eye of Argon”. Although the version that I’ve been referencing…
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Review: The Mandalorian, Season 3, Eps. 6-8 (Disney+)
Let’s call a spade a spade: this season of Mando was more uneven than my heart rate, and the last three episodes really exemplified a lot of the problems I had with this season as a whole. I put off writing this review because, honestly, I just didn’t find the end of the season…
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Review: The Last of Us, Eps. 6-9 (HBO)
I’ll try to keep this relatively spoiler-free, but, as usual, don’t be surprised if a few plot details show up. What do you expect me to do, edit this? Pros: -The cast was fantastic the whole way through: Pedro Pascal turned in a soulful, haunting performance as a much more hardcore adoptive dad than he…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 7-10
In my relatively short tenure as proprietor of a reviews-oriented site, I’ve come to realize that it’s much, much easier to write about things that I don’t like than it is to crank out ~1000 words on something I actually enjoyed. The episodes comprising Andor’s last arc make for a hard review in the best…
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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: Deathloop (PS5/Xbox Series S)
I played Deathloop back when it came out on PS5, but its recent release on Game Pass gives me a good opportunity to write a review of the thing while still being somewhat topical. Once more into the breach…shit, wait, wrong time loop game.[1] At the end of the (repeated, over and over again) day,…
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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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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…