Category: Reviews
REVIEW: Am I Racist? (2024)
The Daily Wire has been experimenting with entertainment lately, producing movies, children’s shows, and adult animated series that are available on their subscription service. The most successful of these ventures seem to be the documentaries produced by Matt Walsh – at least, these are the on...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power – Season 2, Episode 5, “Halls of Stone”
jesslind | Sep 13, 2024 | 1
***DISCLAIMER: CONTAINS SPOILERS*** This episode opens with a shot of sprawling mountains, which transitions to the rivets of a ring—one of the Dwarven rings. King Durin III picks up his ring but does not yet put it on. As he turns away, disembodied voices begin to speak from the other rings. No...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power – Season 2, Episode 4, “Eldest”
jesslind | Sep 6, 2024 | 1
***DISCLAIMER: CONTAINS SPOILERS*** Sadly, this episode has Guyladriel in it again… Episode 4 begins in Lindon, where Elrond, the only one with sense on this show, and Guyladriel are gathering up a squad to travel to Eregion. There has been no word from Celebrimbor. Elrond asks if she knows of a...
Read MoreREVIEW: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
You can let go of your understandable trepidation; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is easily one of the best legacy sequels ever made, a fun and endlessly inventive return to Tim Burton’s macabre world huskily breathing underneath quaint small-town America. More than the usual cash grab and anything but ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power – Season 2, Episode 3, “The Eagle and the Sceptre”
jesslind | Sep 2, 2024 | 1
***DISCLAIMER: CONTAINS SPOILERS*** Firstly, the biggest and only positive of this episode: NO GUYLADRIEL!!! The downsides? Númenoreans that do not in any way resemble true Númenoreans, Don Lemonlas/Discount Legolas, and… that little shit Theo. Episode 3 begins with Elendil the Short attempt...
Read MoreReview: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Season 2, Episode 2, “Where the Stars are Strange”
jesslind | Aug 31, 2024 | 1
***DISCLAIMER: CONTAINS SPOILERS*** Episode 2 begins with Guyladriel and Elrond, the only character in this show who has sense. The two are arguing, Elrond berating her for being so easily manipulated by Sauron and now doing the same to Gil-galad. Back to the dwarves. Durin IV and Durin III have a...
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