If you follow the socials, I have recently gotten back into anime. I watched some back in college, which was (Oh crap!) 25 years ago. Back then, I watched what are now considered some of the classics: Akira, Cowboy Bebop, … Continue reading Review: Vinland Saga (Seasons 1&2)
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Ready Player One Rewatch. 8 stars. IP Man 7 stars Frankenstein 7 stars. Sinners 8 stars Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Seasons 1-2 7 stars, so far. Arcane 6 stars The Woman King Empowerment movie with a deep look inside an … Continue reading Watch Log 2025
Venom: The Last Dance These are not great, but still enjoyable. Plus, my wife likes these more than most other comic book movies, so it gets an extra star for that. 3 of 5 stars. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns … Continue reading Watch Log 2024
Echo is a short series focusing on Maya Lopez, featuring five episodes that follows the events of Hawkeye. After turning against former boss Wilson Fisk in the Hawkeye finale, this show is built around Lopez’ return to her hometown, and … Continue reading Review: Disney+/Marvel’s Echo
Mules Measure Up Short In Season Opener With Freeburg Midgets In what turned into a war of attrition, the school with more than 700 students was able to outlast the school with 400-plus on a hot Friday night that featured … Continue reading FCHS Mules football vs. Freeburg, 8-25-23
The St. Louis Comic Con (Mighty Con) was held this weekend in the Collinsville Convention Center and I was able to attend the Saturday session. This was just my third comic convention ever (all within the last year) and the … Continue reading St. Louis Mighty Con
Below is the definitive guide that any self-respecting nerd should devote their life to completing as much of as possible. Comics, sci-fi, fantasy. It’s all in here. Sorted by year of release, this is somewhat of a personal checklist for … Continue reading The Essential Nerd Watchlist
A coming of age/dark-ish comedy originally aired on Youtube Premius in 2019, the television show Wayne eventually landed on my Watchlist I keep in my to-do list app. Seriously, I have no idea how or why I put it in … Continue reading Wayne. No, not Shreve.
HBO’s Barry apparently was not about this guy: So that was disappointing. No, Barry is a Bill Hader vehicle in which the SNL alum plays it straight as a (possibly) psychotic hitman, struggling with the morality of his profession. It is still called a comedy, but a dark one, and by the end of season two, a very dark one. There have been two seasons so far, 16 total episodes. The show follows Barry (Hader) on his journey from efficient hitman to wannabe actor in a troupe of wannabes. Stephen Root plays the mentor, and walks around doing Stephen Rooty … Continue reading TV: Barry
A few years back, Dhani Jones, a former NFL linebacker, had a show on Travel Channel called Dhani Tackles The Globe. Dhani was charismatic and athletic, but the draw to the show was getting to see sports from other countries: rugby, muay thai. dragon boat racing, etc. Netflix’ Home Game is a documentary series that has a similar draw, without the central host. What it does do is crank up the peculiar nature of what international sports can be, compared to what we think of here in the States. Home Game is an eight-episode series, with each 30-minute installment looking … Continue reading Netflix’ Home Game–Bizarreness Worth Traveling To Your Couch For
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