Category: Reviews

REVIEW: Castlevania Season 3(2020)

Castlevania is a series that I started watching on a whim. When Netflix released season 1 in 2017, I thought it was an anime about Dracula and put it on to see what it was about. I’m not much of a gamer, so while I knew it was based on a series of games, I …

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REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 14 “Death of the Speed Force”

The Flash took a week-long break after the excellent “Grodd Friended Me,” and returns with “Death of the Speed Force,” a muddled, middling effort that serves mostly to make clear just how many balls this season has in the air. Some familiar faces return, as does a familiar superhero trope th...

REVIEW: The Way Back (2020)

It hasn’t been a secret that Ben Affleck has dealt with alcoholism in his life, which is why it was a bit surprising when they announced The Way Back, a drama about an ex-basketball star who struggles with alcohol. I saw a lot of comments online questioning whether this was smart for Affleck to do...

REVIEW: The Call of the Wild (2020)

When I saw the trailers for The Call of the Wild, they made absolutely no impression on me. I didn’t and still don’t know much about the Jack London novel, and nothing about the marketing scheme seemed at all remarkable. The presence of Harrison Ford didn’t do much to bolster my interest, as, ...

REVIEW: Onward (2020)

Pixar is a strange studio in my eyes. Even as a child, I could tell there was something about movies like Toy Story and A Bug’s Life that was different than other Disney properties. When I was a little older, I was convinced I wanted to work there for a few years. Most of the …

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REVIEW: The Clone Wars – Season 7, Episode 3, “On the Wings of Keeradaks”

*SPOILERS* This week on The Clone Wars, Anakin, Rex, and the Batchers bust Echo out of Wat Tambor’s lab. Picking up right where “A Distant Echo” left off, the guys are surrounded by Tambor’s battle droids. Echo informs them of a ventilation shaft above the lab, and then of a way to escape th...