Tag: Drama
REVIEW: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
In an entertainment era where seemingly everything is being dumbed down and homogenized, the Planet of the Apes films have managed to hold on, retaining their focus on larger ideas about society, human nature, and the rise and fall of civilization. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the fourth in t...
Read MoreShogun Season 2? Hiroyuki Sanada Signs Return Deal
A Deadline exclusive reveals that FX’s limited series Shogun may no longer be limited. Star and producer Hiroyuki Sanada (Yoshi Toranaga) has surprisingly signed on to return for a potential second season. Sanada’s involvement was considered essential before the creators moved forward with prod...
Read MoreREVIEW: Tales of the Empire Season 1 (2024)
I loved Tales of the Jedi. More accurately, I loved half of it, the Dooku half, and I enjoyed the Ahsoka half. The animation style is to die for, and I liked learning more about an under-utilized character. In short, that’s why the Count Dooku episodes were so much more compelling. I was all in w...
Read MoreCobra Kai Season 6 Announcement Video Strikes Hard
Netflix is stretching out its final crane kick. Today, the streamer released an announcement video for season 6 of Cobra Kai, the sequel series to the Karate Kid movies. Cobra Kai’s final season will consist of fifteen episodes, fifty percent more than the show’s usual ten; however, they will b...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Bad Batch – Season 3, Episode 13, “Into the Breach”
*SPOILERS* In “Into the Breach,” Rampart and the Batch wait for Echo on a strange planet. Meanwhile, Omega gets acclimated to her new roommates and asks them a few strategic questions. Dr. Sculder recommends that Omega be separated from the other “specimens,” but Emerie explains that she’s...
Read MoreREVIEW: Civil War (2024)
[Insert lack of Marvel superheroes joke here.] Now that that’s out of the way, Alex Garland’s Civil War is a surprisingly smart movie, a film not about right and wrong so much as what would happen if a hellish civil war of the kind we mostly associate with third-world nations came to America, a...
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