Category: Reviews
REVIEW: Andor – Season 2, Episode 6, “What a Festive Evening”
***SPOILERS*** In “What a Festive Evening,” Cassian warns Luthen not to work with the Ghormans. Luthen counters that they could be useful, but Cassian wants no part of it. Vel is sent to Ghorman to handle things for Luthen instead. Cassian arrives home, to Bix’s delight. Meanwhile, Perrin stru...
Read MoreREVIEW: Andor – Season 2, Episode 5, ”I Have Friends Everywhere”
***SPOILERS*** “I Have Friends Everywhere” opens on Kleya listening to her various bugs. This is a running theme in the episode, as Syril’s call with Mom is interrupted by an Imperial device sweep. They locate the bugs placed by the Ghorman Front, but evidently don’t know more than that. Cas...
Read MoreREVIEW: Havoc (2025)
While the pedigree gave me and, I’m sure, many others, high hopes, Havoc is the usual Netflix movie – and really the usual streaming movie in general. It’s an uneven, overstuffed, empty-headed diversion that makes little use of its stellar cast and wastes some well-constructed action scenes (...
Read MoreREVIEW: Andor – Season 2, Episode 4, “Ever Been to Ghorman?”
***SPOILERS*** “Ever Been to Ghorman?” finds Bix and Cassian one year after the events of the previous arc, restless and traumatized, hiding in a safe house on Coruscant. Meanwhile, Syril works in a Bureau of Standards field office on Ghorman. Bix still suffers from nightmares and even hallucina...
Read MoreREVIEW: Thunderbolts* (2025)
Thunderbolts* is being touted as Marvel’s return to form after a few years in the wilderness, where, with a couple of exceptions, their films ranged from boring duds to unwatchable garbage. It’s not; it’s the same poorly written, unevenly paced, tension-devoid, charmless, weightless, laughles...
Read MoreREVIEW: Andor – Season 2, Episode 3, “Harvest”
***SPOILERS*** In “Harvest,” Cassian finds himself stranded in space trying to get going again. On Mina Rau, everyone is having dinner together when Kellen arrives with a work pass to get the Ferrix guys out of the Empire’s path. Mon offers Leida a way out of the wedding, but she isn’t havin...
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