Younger and Wiser: "Shadowhunters" and the Integrity of Television

"The Mortal Instruments" steps up to bat once more. The results are surprising to say the least.

Younger and Wiser: The Maze Runner Effect

The Maze that bridged the gap into a new age of sensibility for YA.

Younger and Wiser: Divergent Revisited

That truth apparently had to be learned the hard way

Rogue One: A Superior Star Wars Story (Collaboration with MovieMan Madness)

The Awakening may have been monumental, but was it quite as good as the Rebellion built on hope?

Fromage Fridays #44: Vanished- Left Behind: The Next Generation

A rapture that's hip for the kiddies..

TV's Grittiest Heroes: Recapping the Impact of the MCU on Netflix (Power Man and Iron Fist)

Attracting opposites in more ways than one.

Lightning Round: Turning Japanese

Asian Invasion time.

Crapshoot 2017: I'm Not Laughing/Finale

The year is over after this. Let us never speak of it again.

Crapshoot 2017: Fantastic Flops

Hollywood's mightiest failures in Fantasy.

Crapshoot 2017: All My Friends are Heathens

Forgive them audiences, for they know not what they do.

Crapshoot 2017: Atrocities of Animation

 

Find the works of Illumination a little too dignified? Look no further for shoddy child distractions than here.

Crapshoot 2017: Acknowledging Achievement in Cinematic Awfulness

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Cinema wasn’t the worst thing to happen to the world last year but it was a calamity nevertheless.

Best of 2016 Part 2

Now Where were we?

Best of 2016 Part 1

The Cream of the Crop in a year of Crap.

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" review

Still looking for the fantastic this film promised to help me find.

Hidden Depths: The Death and Return of "Superman Returns"

A movie with ideas so good, it only took about 10 years for them to supplant the character’s modern interpretation.

"Arrival" review

If only we put this much effort into understanding communication in real life.

"Doctor Strange" review

Entertaining? Very much so. Strange? Not quite.

"Max Steel" review

Maybe I should cut Hasbro a little bit of slack.

"Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" review

I wish someone would pay me millions to act out a fully produced power fantasy.