Baby Sonic Will Melt Your Heart
Look out, Baby Yoda, there’s a new kid on the block. Sonic the Hedgehog fans can get a glimpse of the blue wonder in his younger years in a recent trailer for his upcoming film debut. Baby Sonic is seen speeding around Green Hill Zone as his older self narrates his backstory in Japanese. At […]
Netflix’s ‘Witcher’ Series Brings Dark European Folklore To Life
Netflix is approaching a critical juncture. The streaming company is facing more competition than ever, not only from the likes of Hulu and Amazon Prime, but also Disney Plus. Not to mention data that shows a rollercoaster of extreme highs and lows in both subscription rate and stock growth, it’s no secret that the once-dominant […]
‘The Mandalorian’ Episode 7 Review: Disney’s Breakout Hit Starts Breaking Bad
At the end of my review for the previous episode of The Mandalorian, I speculated about how the show would handle wrapping up this season. So far, it’s seemed content to give us a steady flow of essentially self-contained stories. Past the third episode, you could probably watch a lot of the season out of […]
‘Rise of Skywalker’ Review: Star Wars Finale Suffers From A Great Disturbance In The Force
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Disney could do no wrong when it acquired Lucasfilm back in 2012. The House of Mouse had led Marvel Studios to dominate the box office and was on a roll with animated hits both out of Pixar and its own in-house animation studies; logic would dictate that Star […]
‘The Mandalorian’ Episode 6 Review: Bill Burr In Space
The sixth episode of The Mandalorian is another self-contained story chronicling the adventures of everyone’s favorite bounty hunter on the run. Directed by Rick Famuyiwa, this latest installment of the Star Wars spin-off series spins a good yarn. Baby Yoda plays an even smaller role here than it did in the previous episode, but once […]
‘Ghostbusters’ Meets ‘Stranger Things’ In New Trailer
If you want to watch a new trailer, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! Or maybe Stranger Things. Sony Pictures just released a trailer for the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife with an all-star cast featuring Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Carrie Coon (The Leftovers), Paul Rudd (Avengers: Endgame), and Mckenna Grace (The Haunting of Hill House). Viewers will […]
‘The Mandalorian’ Episode 5 Review: Star Wars Is Dewback, Baby!
There are so many beautiful scenes that will tug on your nostalgic strings in the fifth episode of The Mandalorian, it would almost be considered gratuitous if it wasn’t done so organically well. None of it feels extra, it just feels right. Warning: There are spoilers past this point. As soon as Mando steps foot […]
‘The Mandalorian’ Is Strikingly Similar To ‘Goblin Slayer’
The Mandalorian series has quickly carved itself a place in the zeitgeist of mainstream pop culture. It’s not just the Baby Yoda memes either, the show is an undeniable hit on its own merits. However, since the first episode and with each passing chapter I’ve noticed its undeniable roots in not only Star Wars mythology, […]
‘The Mandalorian’ Episode 4 Review: Return Of The World-Building
Another week, another satisfying episode of The Mandalorian goes by. The fourth chapter of Disney’s popular Star Wars spin-off is directed by none other than Jurassic World and Black Mirror actress Bryce Dallas Howard. Luckily, she was given a better script to work with than her father Ron Howard was when he directed the ill-fated […]
‘Frozen 2’ Makes Box Office History
When Frozen 2 was announced, everyone assumed it would be a natural hit, but nobody could have predicted the record-breaking opening weekend it claimed. Raking in over $358 million at the box office in just three days, the sequel has already outperformed the first film’s $110.6 million launch in 2013. In fact, Frozen 2 now […]