Tag: Reviews
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Review: Halloween Ends
This was a weird one. Not bad-weird, but strange enough that a one-sided discussion like this necessitates the disclosure of… *From far away, across a desolate, blasted land, comes the tolling of ancient bells* …spoilers (the spookiest thing of all). Away we go. Part the First: Some Grisly Context You’re probably aware that Halloween Ends…
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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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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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On (the) Campaign: Horizon Forbidden West
Since I last wrote about Horizon Forbidden West,[1] I’ve had the honor of joining the elite club of gamers who have played the game’s story through to its conclusion…even if I did turn the difficulty way the fuck down and then “forget” to adjust it back up. Who cares that I got to the end…
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Review: Rollerdrome (PS5)
At the climax of the dystopian 1975 sports film Rollerball, James Caan’s Jonathan E. (yes, that’s actually his name) makes the momentous decision to ignore the wishes of his corporate overlords and spare the opposing team’s last remaining member. Rollerdrome is not like that. Rollerdrome takes the ball from Rollerball and replaces it with the…
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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…