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Hobbit / LOTR Get Simultaneous 4K Release

RJ Carter · November 28, 2020

With much of the world being risk-averse to crowds of shoppers this year, it doesn't take a crystal ball to predict that online sales are going to be through the roof for Black Friday and beyond.

A Gym Newbie? Awesome! Learn Everything You Ought To Know

Bill Casticart · November 25, 2020

There are several very different pieces of equipment in the gym. Learning to use them all correctly can seem overwhelming to the newbie. You might even be slightly uncomfortable with so many eyes looking at you as you are figuring out the way round those complicated machines.

Black Pumpkin "Yummy Halloween Fun!"

Damascus Mincemeyer · November 20, 2020

In Jungian terms, the collective unconscious involves those concepts we humans instinctual identify regardless of cultural boundaries, and abstract symbols come to be imbued with deeper meaning: a flag becomes not merely colorful fabric, but an emblem of national identity, just as a cross represents spiritual salvat

Giant Starfish Bring Humanity a Warning From Space, Now on Blu-ray

RJ Carter · November 17, 2020

Four years before DC Comics founded the Justice League team to take on the interstellar horror of Starro the Conqueror, screenwriter Hideo Oguni teamed up with artist Taro Okamoto to bring us the strangest, not-quite-kaiju of them all: the Pairans.

Cup of Cheer Pantses Hallmark Under the Mistletoe

RJ Carter · November 14, 2020

Tis the season to lose control of your television to the more sentimental members of the family. So if you're going to watch anything from now through the end of the year, it's going to be a Christmas movie, and it's probably going to be either Lifetime or Hallmark (not that you'll be able to tell the difference).

The Queen's Gambit an Engrossing Redemption Arc

RJ Carter · November 12, 2020

Beth Harmon (The New Mutants' Anya Taylor-Joy) is raised in an orphanage until her younger teens. While there, she and the other girls are regularly given "vitamins" which include tranquilizers, to which 9 year old Beth develops an addiction.

How Effective is the Psychic as a Plot Device?

Bill Casticart · November 12, 2020

No matter the genre of film or TV show, some tropes remain universal. One of these is the fortune-teller or the psychic. Such readers are consulted when characters are stuck. Or indeed when the plot itself doesn’t seem to move forwards. But how effective is the fortune teller as a plot device?

Misery Loves Company in Ahoy's Happy Hour

RJ Carter · November 11, 2020

In the world of Peter Milligan's HAPPY HOUR, the government has all but eliminated societies ills and unrest by treating the root cause of unhappiness -- unhappiness itself.

Not Bogus, But Not Righteous: Bill and Ted Face the Music

RJ Carter · November 10, 2020

Thirty-one years ago, two righteous California teens with guitars and a dream had an excellent adventure in a time-traveling phone booth. It was so much fun, they had to do it again, but it ended up being a totally heinous bogus journey.

Black Adder Meets Caligula in Hulu's The Great

RJ Carter · November 10, 2020

THE GREAT is a comedic farce that loosely follows the biography of Catherine the Great. Equal parts BLACK ADDER and CALIGULA, the series goes out of its way to make the profane mundane, with palace life centered completely around copulation and killing.