Tag: Reviews
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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…
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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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A Note on Review Scoring
Hi all. I wanted to drop a quick explainer re: what’s going on with the review scores. You’ve probably noticed by now that all the scores include a “spread,” the application of which I don’t think I’ve adequately articulated. Let’s look at an example: I rated the most recent episode of The Boys a 9/10…
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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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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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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…