As a fan of fantasy stories, I am loving that this post-Game of Thrones resurgence of the genre is making a big-budget run at streaming success. Previous seasons already gave us The Witcher and The Wheel of Time (sadly neither have become my favourites), and now we have a few more series bringing their tales…
Category: Sci-fi
Animation Reviews: Lightyear, Sing 2, The Sea Beast, The Bad Guys, Belle, and Bubble
Growing up with a lot of Disney, I’ve always loved animated movies. So even as a middle-aged adult, I enjoy catching up with a lot of these movies. These days there are a steady flow of them coming to theatres and streaming channels, and their visual quality and production values seem quite high. The only…
Thor: Love and Thunder – Movie Review
After watching Thor: Love and Thunder, I really have no idea what the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s current “phase 4” (of which this movie is the midpoint) is really all about. For the most part, it’s been a bunch of new characters that haven’t exactly made a huge splash, and a few middling stories/sequels with established…
Spiderhead & The Man From Toronto – Double-header Netflix Movie Review
It’s a rare occasion when I sit down to watch movies on Netflix (after all, there’s still more Umbrella Academy episodes to watch!) but I thought I’d take a break from new TV and check out a couple of interesting movies that the streamer has released to my living room. Spiderhead It’s surprising to me…
Too Much Summer TV 2022, part 3
As summer officially begins, hot new/returning shows might be giving the lacklustre summer box office a run for its money. The scheduling of the highly-anticipated return of The Boys within the three-week gap between the two batches of new Stranger Things episodes reminds me a lot of the old “opening weekend” shuffling that used to…
Too Much Summer TV 2022, part 2
Sorry that it’s been over a week since part one, but I’ve been preoccupied with catching up on the new summer TV (especially Stranger Things), so here’s my take on a few more shows that have started-up/resumed recently. Stranger Things Though I had loved the last season a lot, I confess that I wasn’t as…
Too Much Summer TV 2022, part 1
I know it’s not truly summer yet, but let’s not split hairs — there are so many new shows and new seasons that I can’t wait any longer! At a time when we should be heading out (finally!) to cinemas for the start of the blockbuster movie season, the streamers are bombarding us with so…
Oscar Schmoscar 2022
I originally started these posts to express my tongue-in-cheek disinterest in the Oscars, especially who the winners were (since I’d watched so surprisingly few). However, over the years, I’ve shifted to genuine interest in the nominees (though I still don’t care that much about who wins) and look on them as a checklist of films…
Midwinter TV 2022
Even though there are now new shows popping up at any time of the year, winter seems to be a bit like the new fall. A number of shows have debuted over the last couple of months, some good and some meh. Here’s a few that I’ve watched (many of you may have watched some…
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