Reviews & Rants
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Straight reviews with actual verdicts, measurable disappointment and the occasional movie that earns every damn nunchuck.
Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
Resident Evil Review: The Game I Never Knew I Wanted to Play
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil captures the feel of the games with terrific cinematography, plenty of laughs, and an adventure I wish I could play myself.
Reviews & Rants · Television
I Thought We All Agreed to Leave Point Break Alone
AMC is bringing Point Break back as a TV series tied to the Ex-Presidents, and one perfect ending plus one bad remake should have been more than enough.
Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
Onslaught Promises a Bloodbath but Never Quite Pulls the Trigger
The grindhouse feel is there, but too much of the carnage happens off screen and the finale never delivers the onslaught it promises.
Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
Buddy Review: Barney Finally Found Out We Hated Him
Casper Kelly turns children’s television into a deranged horror-comedy, and Keegan-Michael Key may have just created a new horror favorite.
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Reviews & Rants · Television
Can We Please Stop Killing Comic Book TV Shows Before They Have a Chance
Spider-Noir, Wonder Man and Gen V are the latest casualties in a television landscape that seems determined to forget one very obvious thing: comic books and TV are made for each other.
Reviews & Rants · The Multi-Dojo
Tim Curry Was the Joker — Until Mark Hamill Was
Tim Curry recorded the Joker before Mark Hamill took over — and some of Curry’s lost performance can actually be heard today.
Reviews & Rants · Television
I Guess I’m Rick Sanchez. This Is Not Good News.
I started Rick and Morty years late and slowly realized the angry cartoon scientist on my television was behaving an awful lot like me.
Reviews & Rants · Comics
Comic Shops Aren’t Supposed to Be Scalpers
DC is putting comic shops on notice over retailer-exclusive variant prices, and it’s about damn time somebody drew a line between making a profit and scalping collectors.
High Five to the Face
Better Than a Punch to the Gut
Movies, music and five-item arguments that know when to stop before the list turns into homework.
Reviews & Rants · High Five
My Five Favorite Movie Soundtracks
Guardians of the Galaxy, Say Anything..., The Crow, Footloose and Purple Rain. Five movie soundtracks that became impossible to separate from the films they came from.
Reviews & Rants · High Five · Music
The Greatest Hits Curse
Five artists were still white hot when their greatest-hits albums arrived. What happened next makes the timing look a little too fucking suspicious.
Reviews & Rants · High Five
Five Times the Hero Lost—and Absolutely Deserved To
Doctor Strange, Stanley Ipkiss, Guy Gardner, Billy Butcher and Splinter brought their worst comic-book defeats upon themselves.
Reviews & Rants · High Five
Five Sequels That Completely Changed the Tone—and Got Better
Five sequels that switched genres, rewrote their franchises and proved that completely changing direction can sometimes be the best decision.
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