Category: Reviews

REVIEW: The Call of the Wild (2020)

When I saw the trailers for The Call of the Wild, they made absolutely no impression on me. I didn’t and still don’t know much about the Jack London novel, and nothing about the marketing scheme seemed at all remarkable. The presence of Harrison Ford didn’t do much to bolster my interest, as, ...

REVIEW: Onward (2020)

Pixar is a strange studio in my eyes. Even as a child, I could tell there was something about movies like Toy Story and A Bug’s Life that was different than other Disney properties. When I was a little older, I was convinced I wanted to work there for a few years. Most of the …

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REVIEW: The Clone Wars – Season 7, Episode 3, “On the Wings of Keeradaks”

*SPOILERS* This week on The Clone Wars, Anakin, Rex, and the Batchers bust Echo out of Wat Tambor’s lab. Picking up right where “A Distant Echo” left off, the guys are surrounded by Tambor’s battle droids. Echo informs them of a ventilation shaft above the lab, and then of a way to escape th...

REVIEW: The Clone Wars – Season 7, Episode 2, “A Distant Echo”

*SPOILERS* In “A Distant Echo,” Rex discusses the possibility that Echo is alive with Anakin and Hunter. Anakin cuts the conversation short so he can contact Padmé, with Rex guarding the door. Anakin confides in Padmé that he believes Rex is being guided too much by his emotions. She replies t...

REVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 13 “Grodd Friended Me”

“Grodd Friended Me” is a gratifying return to form for The Flash, good enough to banish the memory of the last two weeks’ duds and reinvigorate a flailing season. It gets back to the moral dilemmas that made the show so fascinating from its earliest days, brings back a great villain (as oppose...

REVIEW: The Clone Wars – Season 7, Episode 1 “The Bad Batch”

Since Dave Filoni announced #CloneWarsSaved at Comic-Con 2018, excitement for season 7 has been palpable. More often than not, it has felt as though excitement for The Mandalorian and this show was all that Star Wars had going for it. Most of the Disney Star Wars flicks have made money, and they all...