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…
Lab Rat Is Another Thoughtful Bit Of Sci-Fi I was fortunate enough to get to see Lab Rat before the movie was released online for streaming. And, upon mentally preparing for the writing of this review, my immediate thought is it is nice to see that classic-style sci-fi stories are still being made. Because that’s…
Artemis Fowl Is An Abysmally Bad Watch Artemis Fowl is a travesty. It is an insult to those that we’re excited about it, those that had hope for it, and is simply a bad watch. And, yes, I’m a fan of the books, and, also yes, I was disappointed with how poorly they adapted it….
Watching Proximity Is An Odd Experience Proximity is one of the strangest science fiction movies I have ever seen. It defies all expectations, makes many strange choices, and has a very good grasp of visual storytelling and visual composition—and yet is kind of bad. At first, the movie seems to be clear on what it is:…
Sonic The Hedgehog Somehow Survived The fact that the Sonic the Hedgehog movie is even any good is a miracle. With the travesty that was the original trailer’s design and the bog-standard plot promised, there was not a chance in heck that this was going to work out—and, yet, here we are. But let’s not get…
The Price of Safety Is More Action Than Sci-Fi The Price of Safety is a book full of good ideas but is plagued by sloppy execution. Very quickly in the reading, it was apparent to me that this was a book that loved its technology, and had an in-depth understanding of engineering and science, but…
