Daemons of the Shadow Realm gives us some entirely foreseeable consequences of the previous battles in Ep. 23 "Emotion and Reason". This not only applies to the fever Yuru comes down with, since he's effectively a medieval person encountering the kinds of diseases you'd normally find in a modern
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia concludes the first season with a new hope for vengeance in Ep. 12 "The Steppe, Ever Unchanging". With Sitara / Fatima and Töregene reaffirming their bond for the sake of summoning a storm to break apart the Mongol Empire. Will they succeed? Alas, that will be a story
Now four seasons in (with a fifth on the way), Reacher has proven itself both a massive success for Prime Video and a high point of modern action television. Based on Lee Child’s series of bestselling Jack Reacher novels and developed by Nick Santora, Reacher gained a sizable fan base for Alan
Daemons of the Shadow Realm shows off the dangers of letting down your guard in Ep. 22 "The Kagemori Brothers and the Kuroya Siblings". After all, the most dangerous part of the battle is when you think the battle is over. The Trojans learned that, and so the Kagemoris now learn that same lesson
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
Daemons of the Shadow Realm slows down the plot just a bit to plan things out in Ep. 21 "Zashiki-Warashi and Higashi Village". First to let Danji and Kiri the Zashiki-Warashi daemons give Yuru and Asa some important backstory to explain the past of Higashi Village. Then to let the twin siblings to
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia shows us the power of wisdom, for good and for evil, in the titular Ep. 10 "Wisdom". With Boraqchin showing Sitara / Fatima that she's both very crafty and utterly ruthless in her pursuit of her goals. However, for all that she is wise, she is by no means omniscient.
Let’s talk Practical Magic 2! I didn’t watch the original film until a couple of years ago, so my nostalgia bar is very low. That said, I’m a huge fan of Sandra Bullock, so I was SHOCKED that this film never crossed my TV screen until the 2024 Halloween season. I truly enjoyed the witchy
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
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
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
