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Discovery Finally Delivers the Episode We’ve Needed

If you’d been following along with my episode reviews, you’ll know that I’ve been struggling with Star Trek: Discovery. It’s a beautiful show with brilliant acting but has struggled with a convoluted plot that minimizes the importance of…

The Incredible Hulk & What The MCU Could Have Been

It’s really weird to go back and watch 2008s The Incredible Hulk. Although all movies are a product of their times, and the movie making legacy of what came before, The Incredible Hulk makes the viewer acutely aware of this. It’s a superhero…

Iron Man Defined The MCU, For Better Or Worse

Sitting here, ten years after the debut of Marvel Studio’s first movie, it seems obvious that the MCU would eventually come to dominate the cinemaplex. We were always destined to be spectators to the greatest movie franchise of all time — the…

The Lorca Twist Typifies Everything Wrong With Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: Discovery isn’t a perfect show. It has potential, but there’s simply so much bad to wade through that it’s not worth any good that’s well… discovered. And that’s really disappointing to admit because no…

Star Trek Discovery Has *Mostly* righted the ship in solid midseason episode

As a TV critic watching Star Trek Discovery has been one of the weirdest experiences of my life (not my real life mind you, just the TV critic life I live in my head). I have always loved Star Trek…

Best Games To Purchase For The Nintendo Switch

The Christmas/Hanukkah/Holiday festivity season is just around the corner and many of you may be planning on picking up a Nintendo Switch for one of your loved ones or yourself pretty soon. That being said, a video game console really isn’t much…

Kill The Unicorns: A Preview

Have you ever wondered why you have never seen a unicorn? Clearly, it isn’t for some mundane reason such as unicorns never existing. Instead, the answer could only be, because they’ve been hunted to extinction! Fear not though! You too can experience a tiny slice of that time…

Best board games under $50 for the holidays

So it’s that time of year again. You’ve have to sit down and find the perfect gift for your lovely nerd family member. You know they’re into dragons or lightsabers and board games, but you don’t have the first idea of where to start. Somehow Monopoly or…

Blade Runner 2049 Asks What Will Happen When AI Becomes Human-like

This article contains spoilers for Blade Runner 2049.

Grasping the central argument of most sci-fi films requires a closer look at the technological and social context of the time period in…