Tag: Movies
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September: The Screen Critic
Reviews Class of 09 (2023) is a single-season mini-series story with no cliffhangers, which is appealing. The series follows four main characters in three different time periods including their time at the FBI Academy in the past, present time (2023 or so), and the future. You don’t just follow the agents, but you follow the…
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Lazy Movie Headlines Are Lazy
At some point this year, while occasionally scrolling my Google-based news feed on my phone, I noticed that more and more articles about movies had the duration of the film in the headline. 95 minutes.. 95 minutes.. 105 minutes.. 116 minutes.. 132 minutes. Uh, why? What normal human reads that and thinks “oh 116 minutes…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (March 2026)
Afterburn (2025) – When will we have a movie with shotguns that don’t send people flying back 10 to 20 feet?! Is that so much to ask for? Not that this was the movie to do it, given how ridiculous it was. Set six years after a solar flare creates a dystopian future, where “food…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (February 2026)
Reviews One Battle After Another (2025) is the kind of movie, to me, that seems to have everything right; good acting, interesting plot, good character development. And yet somehow it just doesn’t click for me. I understand why it would win an award for any given acting role, but overall as a movie I think…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (January 2026)
Reviews I finished Trigger (2025), a Korean cop/crime/action series that was pretty good. The most interesting aspect was the entire premise that is “what if guns flooded into South Korea?” So it basically becomes a gun epidemic that the police are fighting which is obviously a stark contrast to the United States. It’s simple, yet…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (December 2025)
Reviews Bad Words (2013) – I somehow missed this movie from a good while ago, but it is hysterical!. Full of over-the-top adult humor yet it delivers not just in comedy, but with a fun story. It’s always amusing, to me at least, when you have an adult / kid duo that involves corrupting the…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (November 2025)
Reviews Obliterated, a TV series on Netflix made me wonder early on as the presentation image used on the platform to represent the show has several people walking forward confidently, but several of them ultimately have nothing to do with the actual show? Why is that, what is going on? Anyway, as far as the…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (May 2024)
I haven’t had time to do clean write-up reviews of various movies every time, so here are some random thoughts about recent content. In no particular order… Netflix: Heart of the Hunter is advertised as “John Wick, but in Africa”. No, not even close. Just a string of cliches and not even well done at…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (February 2022)
Wheel of Time S1 (2021) Medium: TV (Amazon) Rating: 4 / 5 Politics, destiny, and the occasional magic spell Reference(s): IMDB Listing || Trailer This series is loosely based on the novels of the same name, following a mage, her warder, and a group of reluctant adventures that might be destined for greater things. A world of magic and…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (January 2022)
Cowboy Bebop S1 (2021) Medium: TV (Netflix) Rating: 4 / 5 wop bop a loo bop Reference(s): IMDB Listing || Netflix || Trailer As someone who didn’t read the original material or any subsequent work, I enjoyed this live action series. A cyberpunk meets near-term sci-fi with a dose of spaghetti Western thrown in. Three bounty hunters scrape by in…