Reviews
Read what the community thinks about the music, movies, TV, games, and books they love
WinBack: Covert Operations
“A stiff and bloated clone of Metal Gear: Solid but manages to hold a place in my heart. I would rent this game frequently from Blockbuster and play it all weekend. I wish It could be remastered and released in a modern console.”
Backrooms
“What a strange collage of missed opportunities. Every last bit of the charm of the webseries is conspicuously absent, here. Thoughtful ambience replaced with an abusive degree of corny narration. The technical intrigue of its setting reworked into a never-ending therapy session. A bureaucratic entity weighing profit against research? Gone. Perhaps the monster was the viewer all along... Yawn.”
Review of Primal - Season 1
It seems difficult to explain why Primal's Season 1 is good without first supplying something of a state-of-the-union. Good, in what sense? And of course, we’d be remiss not to take a perfectly good c...
Review of Resident Evil - Season 1
Ah. Another day, another corporate broomstick shoved up the backside of source material that somebody, somewhere, at some point, used to love. Another lovely, sunny day in the modernist beehive, prais...
The Return
“Carried by the brilliant performances of its two leads, director Uberto Pasolini's view of Odysseus's return to Ithaca strips the metaphysical substance from the text, opting instead to present an historical drama. It lags a bit, at times; evidently it's difficult to excise the story's mythical imperatives without also gutting Odysseus's motives. But on the whole, the film is certainly compelling.”
Nolan's Odyssey: An Autopsy
The Odyssey
A film made by those who don't particularly like the Odyssey, for those who have never read the Odyssey. And at that, it's still not even fun to hate, like so many other products of cinematic activism...
Dud
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
When you watch a movie, you're often under the influence of the sunk cost fallacy. Because you've already invested your time and money, you're naturally more inclined to convince yourself that you enj...
The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
“If this was a better written book I think I might have enjoyed it more. This is not...bad...just written for people with more than a casual understanding of ancient warfare and the Mediterranean world.”
The Bourne Identity
“Inside Matt Damon there are two wolves, both are really confused”
Review of The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan is gonna Christopher Nolan or, more succinctly, a leopard doesn’t change its spots. I like Christopher Nolan as a filmmaker. We seem to share the same tastes and interests, given his...
The Odyssey
“It's well-paced and captures the plot beats as well as you can expect from an adaption. My only complaint is that I wish Nolan didn't have to make all of his movies so washed out and gray. A little bit of contrast never hurt anybody. Some may take issue with his modernization of the story's themes, but I don't mind as much. Adapting legends to the times kind of comes with the territory.”
The Odyssey
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Evil Dead
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Review of Black Jacket
Calling it Blackjack Balatro does this game a disservice. Black Jacket is a thoughtful and touching story told through a well-balanced and rich deckbuilding game. It's difficult to fully convey what m...
Se7en
“get ready with me for my head unboxing”
Review of X-Men: The Last Stand
Wow. This…this sucked. Is it unwatchable? No. They do fulfill a couple of promises from the X‑Men canon: we see the Danger Room and a Sentinel. But… In the previous movie, they had Alan Cumming as Nig...
Review of X2
X2: X‑Men United does a lot of things right. It adds more mutants. It adds light and color. The fights are bigger and better. It’s like they didn’t trust the first movie to do well, so they held back....
Review of X-Men
The ’90s were a bad time for comic book fans. Marvel had filed for bankruptcy and was selling off its IP to different studios. Producers did fifteen minutes of research, stunt‑cast the biggest stars t...
Review of Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
Batman was created by Bob Kane and first published in 1939. That’s nearly nine decades of artists, inkers, and storytellers giving us infinite permutations of this character, each one just as real and...
Fight Club
“Me and the baddie I pulled by being schizophrenic.”
Her
“Wow, what a strange movie and guy. 2013 was such a crazy time. Good thing we don't have anything like this now.”
Interview with the Vampire - Season 2
“cue dramatic piano music ..And Juan looked up at the painting and saw that Theresa’s dead husband was Roberto. He had eloped with his enemy’s widow. It’s a telenovela!”
Interview with the Vampire - Season 1
“My favorite genre: Unreliable narrators”
Lars and the Real Girl
“Lars and the town that loved him :(”