Bill & Ted Face The Music Proves Itself I was a fool to underestimate Bill & Ted Face the Music. I knew that the original movie, by reputation, was shockingly fun with an irreverent sense of humor. That despite the two main characters being stereotypes, there was something special about this series. But still, my…
The Batman Is A Step Backwards for DC? The Batman trailer had me invested until one scene ruined it. And that is the moment where he beats the utter snot out of a presumed henchman. Yes, I know Batman often uses aggressive force, but he’s not usually deranged. But the rest of it is interesting. I…
Wonder Woman 1984: More Excellence I don’t know what it is about Wonder Woman, but it was the first good DC movie, and it looks like this will be the same. This trailer is wonderful. The shots of her riding the lightning by lasso is such a novel, cool visual, and something that no other…
Is Discovery Deserving Of Its Negativity? The infamy surrounding Star Trek: Discovery has been bouncing around my pop-culture perceptions for a long time. I was primed to think the show would be terrible. That it would betray Star Trek proper. But, as established, I’m not the biggest Star Trek expert. I have little in the…
Picard Is Not Made For New Fans At All Once I knew I was reviewing Picard, I had every intention to go into the show with the mindset of a new Star Trek fan—having seen one or two episodes of TNG only. I wanted to review for fresh eyes. This turned out to be difficult….
The Old Guard Is A Breath Of Fresh Air The Old Guard is perfect at what it wants to be. It’s an action movie with a tight fantastical premise and stellar execution. By chance, I saw a five-minute scene and was immediately hooked. And that was because of smart storytelling in the scene, but once…
Lower Decks Has Yet To Make Me Laugh The biggest issue with Lower Decks is that it’s not funny. Not at all. And, for a series supposed to be a comedy, that’s a brutal failure. You can tell where the show is supposed to be funny, where it intends to make you laugh, but it…
The Rental Takes Its Time To Scare You To call The Rental horror is to mislabel it. While it contains scenes of abject unpleasantness and shockingly dark moments, it’s only in its ending it claims any real signifiers of the genre. No, what The Rental is, is a thriller with a heavy emphasis on character work,…
The Big And Powerful Deck Left Standing (Note from the editor: This article was written before the August 3rd banning of Wilderness Reclamation. We hope you’ll still enjoy reading it, as it was meant to be about overpowered decks in general, and was only using Temur Rec as an example.) The recent bans that did…
There’s a lot of amazing modern sci-fi, fantasy, or horror series to stream. But there’s also some classic—and iconic—shows that every fan of those genres should experience at least once. And a lot of them you can still watch online. So, to broaden horizons and nudge a new generation of fans toward seminal classics, here’s…
Ghosts of War Shows So Much Initial Promise Ghosts of War has given me mixed feelings ever since I finished watching it. Even as I type this, I am unsure of what to make of this movie. It is two ideas wrapped into one, and one half is so much better than the other. The basic…
Volition Is Much Smarter Than It Initially Seems Volition was the movie I didn’t know I needed. It was refreshing and enjoyable to get a film deftly and almost immaculately telling a story of time travel, premonitions, and cause and effect. Volition doesn’t start off seeming that way, though. At first, it gives off a vaguely…
