On December 19, 2014, I was home from college for winter break, and my friend organized a watch party at his house for the two-part finale of The Legend of Korra. We had a pretty high turnout, considering that the last two seasons had been taken off the air and relegated to being inconspicuously posted … Read more
I will still maintain, to this day, that the first season of Ted Lasso is perfect. When the series first premiered on Apple TV back in 2020, I had my doubts about whether a character from a series of NBC Sports commercials could carry an entire story. The way the series brought together comedy and … Read more
Robert Pattinson is on top of the world right now; in the past few years, he has given anywhere from standout to masterful performances in The Lighthouse, The Batman, The Boy and the Heron, Mickey 17, Die My Love, The Drama, and The Odyssey. And that’s not counting his hotly anticipated upcoming role as the antagonist of Dune … Read more
Some movies feel too much like an imitation, a repetition of something that has come before. Movies that try to cash in on our love for something that already exists. But other movies entice you in with a surreal familiarity that you can’t quite explain, a feeling that this is a story you must have … Read more
I’m not going to claim to be some kind of expert on video game film adaptations – oh wait, I am. Having watched an obscene amount of these films, both Eastern and Western, animated and live action, I can confirm that creating an adaptation of a game does not seem to be easy. Until recently, … Read more
Minor spoilers for Buddy (2026) As a kid growing up through the 90s and 2000s, I didn’t get shamed for liking TV shows that were “too young” for me. With one exception. Barney. Despite having pretty strong memories of the show, I have stronger memories of fervently denying that I liked it, and of the … Read more
What do you know about the wives of Henry VIII? Their names, their eventual fates? Their solo numbers? SIX tells the story of Catharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr in the form of a girl group’s pop concert, moving the six queens out of time and … Read more
Like many dinosaur enthusiasts, I have grown weary of the Jurassic Park series. With only one great movie out of seven, and perhaps two additional watchable ones, the franchise has not only survived but thrived due to the lack of competition in cinemas. When was the last high-quality theatrical dino movie? Pixar’s underwhelming The Good Dinosaur … Read more
Spider-Man Brand New Day has had a lot riding on it – not only does it need to continue Spider-Man’s story from a very difficult place, but it needs to reinvigorate the plateaued interest the public has in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before Avengers Doomsday hits this December. This is a tall order, because many MCU … Read more
Avatar: The Last Airbender has always been extremely important to me, from watching the premiere as a little kid on Nickelodeon to holding watch parties in college for The Legend of Korra to reading the comics. In my adulthood, during COVID, I rediscovered Avatar when it came to streaming and saw an entirely new show unfold in front … Read more
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