“By Any Means” treads familiar ground, but Mark Wahlberg shines as real life Hitman-turned-Fed informer Gregory Scarpa, and behind the tropes and cinematic conventions is the kernel of a true story that has relevance to this day. Mark Wahlberg is distracting (mostly in a good way) throughout
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Casper Kelly's Buddy is a mind-bending journey into a very dark version of children's television. Back in 2014, Casper Kelly gave the world "Too Many Cooks," an 11-minute dive into aging television conventions that swam deeper into a twisted darkness the longer it went on. It seemed a fun inheritor
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
I remember seeing the trailer for The Dog Stars and having my eyes roll back in my head. Do we really need more post-apocalyptic stories when we're living in a real life apocalypse? Do we need another movie that has an analog for COVID-19 and the aftermath that had on our own society. Well,
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia both kicks up the action and ramps up the stakes with a very poisonous plotline in Ep. 9 "Tengri". In fact, this is the most amount of bloody action we've seen in this anime in a while. However, in terms of story, it still takes second fiddle to the very sudden
Robot Chicken, Adult Swim's irreverent and long-running stop-motion sketch show created by Seth Green and Matthew Senrich, remains one of Adult Swim's longest-running and most famous series. Who better to celebrate Adult Swim's 25th anniversary? With Robot Chicken's long history of turning myriad
Daemons of the Shadow Realm sees a violent clash between some very antique weapons in Ep. 19 "Sword and Bow". All after Asa pulls off a pretty handy rescue of people she doesn't even like for Yuru's sake. It's this mix of classic action and slice of life taking place amidst crushing power that
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
