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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Some people say you can’t make a good film based on a video game. Those people are right.... and those people are wrong. This generation has seen many failed to “meh” adaptations of big game franchises onto the big screen like the recent efforts of Warcraft and Assassin’s Creed. Most fail through a combination of taking themselves too seriously despite their natural absurdity or trying to… → Read More
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Review: Strong With Ambition, Weaker With Execution
A long time ago on a VHS player far away, I first watched The Empire Strikes Back... and if I’m honest, I wasn’t blown away by it. I may have spent many hours running around my dad’s legs playing AT-ATs and speeders or talking like Yoda, but much of the film went over his little head. It didn’t have the simple, easy-to-follow story of the Star Wars or its rewarding happy ending. Neither did it… → Read More
The Walking Dead - S8E8: How It's Gotta Be
How It’s Gotta Be – With Eugene’s help, the Saviours have escaped The Sanctuary and that does not well for Hilltop, Alexandria or The Kingdom. Aaron and Enid try to bring Oceanside into the fight. As a great Captain once said, “Yep.... that went well”. This certainly wasn’t the episode many would have expected following the events of the season to date but I’m really glad it turned out this way.… → Read More
The Walking Dead
Time For After – As the situation inside The Sanctuary becomes increasingly desperate, Eugene is being pressured for a solution and faces some difficult choices. Daryl goes off the book in a risky attempt to end things early while Rick concludes negotiations with The Scavengers. I’ve enjoyed Eugene/Captain Mullet’s turncoat Saviour journey a lot more than I initially suspected. After his… → Read More
The Walking Dead - S8E6: The King, the Widow and Rick
The King, the Widow and Rick – As the next phase of their plan begins, The Kingdom mourns its losses, Maggie deliberates over prisoner treatment while Rick seeks new allies. Meanwhile, Carl finds a friend while Michone & Rosita need to see things for themselves. Remember those other characters? That is essentially a large part of this episode. The early war telegrams narration frames is a new… → Read More
The Walking Dead
The Big Scary U – While Negan and Gabriel are getting better acquainted, things are starting to fall apart in the leaderless and under siege Sanctuary. Daryl wants to take more extreme measures in light of The Kingdom’s losses much to Rick’s dismay. Ask and you shall receive. After 4 weeks, we are treated to a much-needed catch-up with Negan, Gabriel and everyone else under house arrest in The… → Read More
Justice League - Review: An Imperfect Yet Fun DC Team-Up
Ben Affleck is looking for a Batmobile ejector seat and Gal Gadot is threatening to walk away unless a certain heavily accused producer doesn’t. Things are not well within the DCEU towers. What they really need right now is a win. A positive to show whatever is going on behind-the-scenes will be worth it in the end. Will the much anticipated Justice League be that film? Not entirely but it's a… → Read More
Star Trek Discovery - S1E9: Into The Forest I Go
Into The Forest I Go – With Kol and The Ship of the Dead on its way Pahvo, The Discovery makes a daring play to detect their cloaking technology that will push the ship and crew to its limits. While Tyler comes face-to-face with his past trauma. So it’s Trek mid-season finale time as enemies come face-to-face and many things boldly go in new directions. Though, for a finale, it was rather light… → Read More
The Walking Dead
Some Guy – After his people are massacred by the heavy guns, King Ezekiel is left with nothing but self-doubt while Carol desperately tries to stop the guns leaving the outpost and breaking the siege on The Sanctuary. While last week’s heavy caliber cliff-hanger was good, this episode’s opening has it thoroughly beaten. Whenever The Walking Dead gives an extended pre-titles sequence, it tends to… → Read More
Inhumans - S1E8: ...And Finally, Black Bolt
...And Finally Black Bolt – With Maximus refusing to cancel the security failsafe, Attillan begins to crumble and leaves the Royal Family desperately trying to evacuate their people to safety. Gorgon struggles to find himself after his 2nd Terragenesis. As finales go, this does has some strong story points. It is most definitely a clear and defining ending with huge implications to the future… → Read More
Star Trek Discovery "S1E8 Si Vis Pacem, Para Belum"
Si Vis Pacem, Para Belum – As Kol supplies the other Klingon Houses with cloaking technology, the tide of war is turning against The Federation. Could the natural wonders to nearby planet maybe the key to stopping this? Stament’s spore interface is taking its toll and L’Rell tries to cut a deal with captive Admiral Cornwell. The title translates from Latin as, “If you want peace, prepare for… → Read More
The Walking Dead "S8E3: Monsters"
“Now let me see your war face”.... for a second just image Eugene in Full Metal Jacket staring down Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. Five minutes later, one of them would be losing it, be it the Sergeant or Private Pickle Smuggler. War makes some people crazy because let’s face it, you’d have to be pretty crazy, to begin with not to be affected by it (says the clueless geek from his keyboard... but you… → Read More
Inhumans - S1E7: Havoc in the Hidden Land"
Havoc in the Hidden Land – The Royal Family returns to Attillan seeking parlay with Maximus and a peaceful resolution to the conflict by permitting his 2nd Terragenesis. The outcome will see the city in chaos. It’s interesting to note that more happens in this episode than probably episodes 2-4 combined. Now, you could compare this to the recent (and awesome) 2nd season of Stranger Things which… → Read More
Stranger Things 2 "Chapters 7-9"
Warning: This will contain spoilers for Chapters 1-6. You may also liket o check out our reviews for Chapters 1-3 and Chapters 4-6 before reading this article. Chapter 7: The Lost Sister – El heads to Pittsburgh and tracks down her fellow Hawkins Labs experiment subject, Kari and her band of outcasts. Kari encourages El to embrace her anger and help take out the former Lab staff that got away.… → Read More
The Walking Dead
The Damned – After having neutralized The Sanctuary, Rick’s alliance splits to take out multiple Saviour outposts at once with varying degrees of success and moral conflict. I really like what this episode is trying to do but ultimately, there’s just too much going on to make everything as impactful as it wants to be. Splitting into the 4 stories gives each barely 10 minutes of screen time… → Read More
Star Trek Discovery - S1E7: Magic To Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad – Everything was going swimmingly awkward at Burnham’s first party aboard the Discovery until they encounter a giant space whale and the ship blows up.... and that’s just the beginning of their problems when an old face makes a timely return. A simple concept well-executed; bravo, Discovery this is your offering yet. This episode makes merry with the always… → Read More
Stranger Things 2 "Chapters 4-6"
Warning; this will contain spoilers for Stranger Things, Chapters 1-3. If you haven’t already, you may also like to check out our review of Chapters 1-3 before continuing here. Chapter 4: Will the Wise – After his last episode, Will feels something is still inside him. Nancy and Jonathan have a run in with Hawkins Labs, El’s rage leads her towards a startling discovery while The Chief gets to… → Read More
Jigsaw - Review: Blood and Bore
Do actors really die? Their lives may end but with so much of it captured on camera and o-screen, you could argue that in way they’ll live forever through their works. Death isn’t exactly an obstacle on screen either. If your character dies in a film, they can always find a way to bring you back for a sequel if there’s money to be made from it. Colin Firth’s Harry Hart was shot in the brain… → Read More
Stranger Things 2 "Chapters 1-3"
With the increase in binge-dump delivery of TV shows, it’s getting harder actually to gauge their cultural impact. Sometimes a show can be everything everywhere for a few weeks then nobody’s talking about it anymore. Is that because we’ve all moved on or because in hindsight, the show wasn’t as great as our hype blinded eyes led us to believe? Rather than the slow build towards appreciation for… → Read More
Happy Death Day - Review: A Decent Mystery With Mild Horror
Sometimes, an actor really earns their pay check. When they deliver a great performance from having great story to work with, that’s fair enough. When they make a great performance with bad material; that’s when they can strut all the way to the bank. The sign of a great actor is their ability to make anything work in their favor. While Happy Death Day is not bad material but neither is it… → Read More