Tag: Streaming
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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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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 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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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…