The zombie genre may be on it’s last legs, pardon the pun. Z Nation? Gone. The Walking Dead is talking about more spinoffs–one (Fear The Walking Dead) has been on for a few years now–though the mothership series is pulling in it’s lowest ratings in years. And is there really any mystery why? Zombie shows […]
I. Love. This. Trailer. 1994’s Armistad Maupin’s Tales Of The City was some of the best television I have every seen. It’s remarkable stuff and I can’t wait to go back to Barbary Lane. Which as I mention in my video, my expectations are REALLY high for this, which is problematic because More Tales Of […]
I caught the first season of Netflix’s reboot of Ultraman over the weekend, and it’s pretty good though it’s animated in the same way as other Netflix anime like Knights Of Sidonia and Godzilla, and it irritates me every time that I see it. Visually, it looks like the producers put a cartoon filter on […]
I recently caught The Bye Bye Man on Netflix, and the good thing is that it’s not irredeemably bad. Which still means that it’s bad, just not so bad you get angry at yourself for having watched it. It has all the elements of a really entertaining, well-done movie but the most essential element of […]
Owen Egerton’s Mercy Black is a much better movie than you’d think for one that forgoes a theatrical release and ends up on Netflix (The Cloverfield Paradox, anyone?). It’s a familiar story, but well-told revolving around urban myths in the vein of Candyman, though is more reminiscent of the very read murder done in the […]
While I wouldn’t call myself a fan of Mötley Crüe, they had some really awesome songs, like Looks That Kill, Dr. Feelgood, and Home Sweet Home. And they’ve lead undeniably controversial lives (and I mean that). Yet why is The Dirt so boring? It’s filmed like a sitcom and the characters have more motivation than […]
A.X.L is not a good movie, but it’s one of the best movies about a man-like person and his robotic dog that I have seen in awhile. That being said, I can only recall only one other movie that featured a robotic canine and that’s Battlestar Galactica (1977). A.X.L isn’t either that good or that […]
I wasn’t optimistic that the second season of The OA could give me everything that I liked about the first season without just repeating it; which I would have likely enjoyed but eventually grow to dislike. Instead Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling doubled down on the weirdness, while expanding the story in new and interesting […]
I’ve read that Netflix alters the episode order of Love, Death + Robots based upon the viewing habits of the particular subscriber. Annnnd…who cares? All Netflix likely knows about me is what I actually watch so if they’re tailoring the order of episodes due to what they perceive as my preferences, who cares (especially when […]
Ice Age is a pretty good episode, though I think I’ve seen it somewhere before. It’s well done, but the conceit is hardly an original one. It’s also the first, and likely the only, episode of the series that uses primarily live action and it’s a welcome change.
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