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Alice in Borderland (2020) Season 1—Review
One of the last big outputs of 2020 content from Netflix came in the form of several foreign television shows in December. One of the ones I sat down to watch was an adaptation of a popular Japanese suspense manga, Alice in Borderland (Imawa no Kuni no Arisu, original Japanese name) and it was quite …
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom—Boseman’s Swan Song May Be His Greatest Performance
One of the hardest losses in the pop-culture sphere during the mayhem of 2020 was the life of Chadwick Boseman. While he was best known for his role as Marvel’s King T’Challa, the Black Panther, Boseman had a career filled with great performances. For most people, his best performance pre-Panther was his portrayal of Jackie …
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Soul—Pixar Never Fails to Delight With the Metaphysical
The last film I got to see in theaters before the initial theater shutdown back in March was Pixar’s Onward which hit every mark and instantly became one of my favorite Pixar films. With Pixar’s fantastic reputation of creating films that I absolutely adore, I was extremely excited for their second film on the 2020 …
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Wonder Woman ’84—A Fun Addition to the DCEU That Builds on the First
I think it is a fair assessment to say that 2020 has been hard on everybody. One of of the less-important yet harder parts for me has been the pandemic’s rampage on the movie industry with this year originally set to be one of the best years in entertainment of which that slate included the …
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Fatman—Santa’s Very Own 80’s Action Flick
Merry belated Christmas to all who celebrate and happy holidays to those who do not. When I think of the holiday season, I always think of laying on my parents’ couch, with a hot drink in hand, watching Christmas movies that range from classics like Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), modern classics such as Elf …
The Mandalorian (Season 2)—Review
Star Wars is a beloved franchise that has had a lot of ups and downs in its 43 year history. With Disney’s acquisition of LucasFilm in 2012, we have been delivered a mixed bag of quality with great highs such as Rogue One (2016), groan-inducing lows with the lack of handling of the sequel trilogy …
Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm—The Shtick Hasn’t Gotten Old
In 2006, America was hit over the head with our own stupidity with Sacha Baron Cohen’s mockumentary, Borat, and it was outrageously hilarious. For years, Cohen has said that he was not going to film a sequel mainly due to people too easily recognize him and the Borat character now. However, under the veil of …
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Antebellum—There’s a Reason This Scrapped Its Theatrical Run
Whenever I see “From the Producers of Get Out“, I immediately get excited. Jordan Peele’s team behind Get Out and Us did a phenomenal job with both of those films with their intersection of horror and race issues in America. So when those words came across my computer screen when I originally watched the trailer …
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The Haunting of Bly Manor—A Great New Entry in the Budding Anthology Franchise
One of the highlights for the horror genre in the past couple of years was the Netflix original The Haunting of Hill House—loosely based on the book of the same name by Shirley Jackson. It was a show that was a hit with audiences and critics alike and left everyone clamoring for more Netflix original …
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The Boys (Season 2)—A Diabolically Brilliant Season of Television
By far one of the greatest shows in both the comic book genre and in Amazon’s catalogue was and remains to be The Boys. When season 1 hit last year, it took the world by storm with its hard-R spin on the superhero tropes that our culture has been absolutely obsessed with, particularly in these …
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