Category: Movies
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I Miss Video Rental Stores
Don’t mind me. Just exposing my age. Streaming services have made consuming media easier than ever before. Pick your service, pay the fee, them wham! You can watch whatever you want for however long you want whenever you want. Back in the day, however, it wasn’t so easy. When I was a kid, you couldn’t…
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I Finally Watched Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Dungeons and Dragons has more history with cinema than you might think. Most of it bad. There was the original theatrical film, as well as two direct to DVD sequels. The world’s favorite TTRPG is no stranger to movies. It is, however, a stranger to good movies. At least it was. Then we got this…
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John Wick: Chapter 4 is Sheer Action Brilliance
So… are these movies just gonna keep going? This one has an actual ending to the story, and a pretty damn good one at that. But it’s Hollywood. You know they’re not just gonna let it go. Anyways, this movie is awesome. No surprise there. John’s quest for revenge continues, and the High Table seeks…
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Ranking All the X-Men Movies
Oh, wow, I just remembered that I’ve already done this before! But I hadn’t seen New Mutants – I don’t think it was out at that point – so this is fine. Besides, my opinions on the series have changed quite a bit. The Fox X-Men series was one helluva rollercoaster. You’ve got amazing films,…
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The New Mutants is a Failed Experiment
This movie was doomed to fail. First, there was the disaster that was Dark Phoenix. Then there was the Disney-Fox merger. And to top it all off, it came out in 2020. Under these circumstances, it would have taken the second coming of Christ himself to save it! Not that Jesus would have bothered. Not…
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