Category: Reviews
REVIEW: Carnival Row – Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2, “Fight or Flight” and “New Dawn”
After a four-year break, Carnival Row returned on Amazon Prime last Friday. Season 1 wasn’t very good, aside from some of the performances, and I forgot this show existed. But here we are, four years and a pandemic later. Back on the Row, where mythical creatures like pixies and fauns are di...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Last of Us – Season 1, Episode 6, “Kin”
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Feb 20, 2023 | 0
The turn, the twist, the revelation, and the unmasking of HBO’s The Last of Us has finally occurred. The creatives’ disdain for the source material and all its characters is now evident. This week’s episode, “Kin,” is not only as poorly written and CW-esque as all its predecessors, but the...
Read MoreREVIEW: Marlowe (2023)
To call Marlowe a wannabe noir film would be to ascribe to it aspirations it doesn’t have. Marlowe isn’t trying to capture a time and place, evoke a particular tone or feel, replicate a form of dialogue, or even basic things like engage you in a mystery or surround you with compelling characters...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 9, Episode 2 “Hear No Evil”
“Hear No Evil” is a big stumble for The Flash after a good premiere, and it bodes ill for the show’s final season. While there are some good themes of personal choice and weighing human lives, one of the main characters is treated with shocking callousness, a new character fails to impress, an...
Read MoreREVIEW: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is proof – the latest piece of proof, at least – that Marvel doesn’t care anymore. They don’t care about storytelling, their characters, human and relatable themes, establishing stakes, or even building their universe in exciting ways, which used to be their...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch Season 2, Episode 9, “The Crossing”
***SPOILERS*** “The Crossing” finds Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, and Omega preparing to excavate a mine Cid purchased. Tech and Hunter go in, and Hunter orders Wrecker to act as a lookout with Omega. The team successfully obtains the ipsium from the cave, but someone steals their ship. As a st...
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