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REVIEW: The Idol – Season 1 (2023)

virginiakublawi | Jul 12, 2023 | 1

Recently The Idol hit HBO and the newly rebranded Max streaming service. Created by Euphoria mastermind Sam Levinson and starring Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and Lily-Rose Depp, this series follows popstar Jocelyn (Depp) as she spirals out of control in the wake of her mother’s d...

REVIEW: Nimona (2023)

virginiakublawi | Jul 10, 2023 | 3

Nimona has had an interesting path to the screen. This adaptation of ND Stevenson’s graphic novel began life at Blue Sky Studios, best known for animated comedies like Ice Age and Rio. The film was 70% complete when Disney purchased the studio and scrapped Nimona. A year later, Annapurna a...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 3, “Betrayed”

AlexGherzo | Jul 5, 2023 | 0

“Betrayed” is the episode that comes in seemingly every Disney+ Marvel show: the turn. It’s where something that was either enjoyable or looked like it might be great reveals itself for the undercooked, politically skewed, poorly plotted, character-destroying pablum it really is. And, as alway...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 2, “Promises”

AlexGherzo | Jun 28, 2023 | 0

With its second episode, “Promises,” Secret Invasion gets even more intriguing, wrapping itself comfortably in the espionage tropes it introduced last week and introducing shades of gray for all the main characters. There’s a subtlety to this show that other Marvel productions don’t have, es...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 1, “Resurrection”

AlexGherzo | Jun 21, 2023 | 0

Remember when we used to expect Marvel movies to be good? It wasn’t all that long ago, but it feels like a lifetime since we entered a theater or, almost as often these days, started a new TV show without trepidation and with the anticipation of a fun story with characters we either knew we &helli...

Witcher Season 3 Clip Ignores the Source Material and Logic

Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Jun 19, 2023 | 0

**Spoilers for The Witcher Book 2: Time of Contempt** The first teaser and trailer of The Witcher season 3, released barely one and two months, respectively, before the season’s release, came across as empty and meaningless, neither revealing anything about the story. However, a newly released...