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Reviews & Rants
Movies, TV, music, games, comics, and pop-culture takes with less pretending.
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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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Evil Dead Burn Review: What a Complete Waste
Evil Dead Burn has the name, the blood and the franchise baggage, but almost none of the tension, imagination or nasty fun that should come with them.
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Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
I Saw One Night Only So You Don’t Have To… But You Should
One Night Only review: Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner turn a Purge-style sex-night premise into a funny, charming and easy date-night recommendation.
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Insidious: Out of the Further Review: Six Movies In and Pushing It Further
Jacob Chase gives Insidious a noticeable step up with real tension, strong performances and a sixth-movie turn that actually works.
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It Ends Review: My Hell Didn't Until The Credits Rolled
Alexander Ullom made an impressive first movie. Unfortunately, it also trapped me in a Jeep with four people I desperately wanted to escape.
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Minions and Monsters Review
The best of the Minions movies so far. The animation is ridiculous, Henry and James bring actual heart, and the monsters are fun.
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Motor City Barely Says a Word and Kicks Ass Anyway
Alan Ritchson leads a near-silent 1970s Detroit revenge movie powered by brutal action, brilliant sound and a cast that never wastes a scene.
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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.
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Collector's Corner · Busted Out
Professor Hulk Finally Gets the Marvel Legends Figure He Deserves
Professor Hulk finally joins Marvel Legends with giant weapons, secure glasses and the finest pink bunny slippers in the Marvel Universe.
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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.
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Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Is the Spider-Man Movie I’ve Been Waiting For
A spoiler-free review of Tom Holland’s most adult and comic-book-accurate Spider-Man movie yet.
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Supergirl Review
Milly Alcock works, Lobo steals every second he gets, and the smaller scale has personality.
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The End of Oak Street Review: Dinosaurs, Dysfunction and One Hell of a Good Time
David Robert Mitchell makes the family matter before the dinosaurs arrive, turning The End of Oak Street into a tense, scary and really fun horror adventure.
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The Odyssey Is A Monumental Achievement, Even When The Journey Moves Too Fast
Christopher Nolan turns Homer’s epic into a breathtaking examination of war, guilt, PTSD and learning how to live after it.
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Reviews & Rants · High Five
5 Female Singers You’d Never Know I Love
Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Liz Phair, Natalie Merchant, and Kasey Chambers walk straight through the soft spot.
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5 Great ’80s Movies That Still Needed Jack Burton
Ghostbusters, Road House, The Running Man, Aliens, and Batman were already great. Jack Burton still would’ve made them better.
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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.
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Reviews & Rants · Music
Chris Cornell’s “One” Isn’t a Cover. It’s a Ghost Rising From Two Different Songs
Chris Cornell combined U2’s music with Metallica’s lyrics to create a haunting third version of One that became impossible to escape.
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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.
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Reviews & Rants · Music
DOLLY PARTON: WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU 1946-2026
The singer, songwriter, actress and philanthropist leaves behind a legacy that reached far beyond country music.
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Reviews & Rants · Movie Rant
Eli Roth Blames Lionsgate for Borderlands, but When Does Eli Roth Start Blaming Eli Roth?
Eli Roth says Lionsgate ruined Borderlands. Maybe. But after twenty years of overhyped disappointment, when does Eli Roth start blaming Eli Roth?
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Reviews & Rants · High Five
Five Bands Built on Big, Dumb, Perfect Drums
No drum solos. No technical gymnastics. Just blunt-force rhythm, filthy guitars and songs that hit like a bar fight with a backbeat.
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Reviews & Rants · High Five · Movies
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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Reviews & Rants · Comics
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.
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Reviews & Rants · Television
I Guess I’m Rick Sanchez. This Is Not Good News.
I finally started watching Rick and Morty and discovered the uncomfortable truth: Rick Sanchez has been stealing my personality for years.
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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.
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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.
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My Five Favorite Movies Growing Up
Five movies that helped define growing up, from the ones that rewired my imagination to the scenes and characters I still carry around today.
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Reviews & Rants · Collector Rant
Physical Media Isn’t Perfect. Digital Ownership Is Still a Scam.
Sony, Nintendo, Warner Bros. DVD rot, and the ugly little truth that buying digital does not always mean owning anything.
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Reviews & Rants · Comics
Sometimes the Villain Has a Point, and That Is Apparently a Problem For Everyone But Me
Sometimes the best villains are dangerous because their argument makes uncomfortable sense. The problem is what they decide to do about it.
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Reviews & Rants · Movie Review
Super Troopers 3 Is the Return to Form Broken Lizard Needed
The second movie fell a little flatter than I hoped. Super Troopers 3 gets Broken Lizard back to what they do best.
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Reviews & Rants · High Five
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.
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Reviews & Rants · Music
The Lunacy We Played at Early ’90s Middle School Dances
The adults screened for swear words, ignored everything else and handed middle-school kids one wildly inappropriate soundtrack.
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Reviews & Rants · The Multi-Dojo
The Multi-Dojo: Mark Strong Almost Played a Bond Villain, but Daniel Craig Helped Him Blow the Audition
A premature celebration and one brutal hangover cost Mark Strong the chance to play Gustav Graves in Die Another Day.
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Reviews & Rants · The Multi-Dojo
The Multi-Dojo: Peacemaker Shot Five and a Half Episodes With a Completely Different Vigilante
Why was Chris Conrad replaced as Vigilante on Peacemaker? Creative differences led James Gunn to recast the role with Freddie Stroma after five and a half episodes.
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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.
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Reviews & Rants · High Five
Top 5 Movie Scenes That Make My Inner 12-Year-Old Lose His Mind
Five movie scenes that still hit with the same ridiculous force they did the first time and instantly turn me back into a twelve-year-old kid.
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Reviews & Rants · Television
TV Shows Need to Stop Taking Years Between Seasons
Television used to disappear for the summer. Now you can finish a season, forget half the cast and still be waiting years for the next season to come along.
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Reviews & Rants · Collector Rant
Why GameStop Is a Soul-Sucking Fun Vacuum
GameStop should be one of the easiest places in the world for collectors and gamers to enjoy. Somehow the experience keeps finding new ways to suck the fun out of it.
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Reviews & Rants · Music
Why The Best Album To Make Sweet Love To Is Mama Said by Lenny Kravitz
One album, one very specific mood and a completely serious investigation into the best record ever made for making sweet love to.
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You Might Not Know Jude Christodal. I Think It’s Time You Do.
Jude Christodal should have been a much bigger name. From ‘I Know’ and Maverick Records to Low Stars and television music, I’ve been listening for nearly thirty years.
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Collector's Corner
Toy reviews, shelf weight, figure hunting, and collector math.
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Collector's Corner · Busted Out
Masters of the Universe Fright Fighter: Taking Flight With a Few Problems
Mattel’s Masters of the Universe Fright Fighter has working wings, an articulated tail and a cockpit that gives Spikor trouble. Peter reviews his $20 Target find.
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