Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — Great Cameos, Lame Ending
A review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where the Illuminati are wasted, Wanda’s ending is another love-conquers-all cop-out, and Mordo is still missing.
A review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where the Illuminati are wasted, Wanda’s ending is another love-conquers-all cop-out, and Mordo is still missing.
Legend of the Sea Devils brings back a classic monster for a pirate adventure that never settles on a plot. Handsome, weightless, and over very quickly.
Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3 traps the crawlers in the Iron Tangle and hands Carl a secret sabotage manual. Why The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook rules.
Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 2 drops Carl and Donut into the Over City, a bigger, meaner floor. Here’s why Carl’s Doomsday Scenario deepens the series.
Eve of the Daleks traps the Doctor in a nine-minute time loop in a Manchester storage facility, and it’s the most fun this era has been in ages.
My Spider-Man No Way Home review: the multiverse, three Spider-Men, Aunt May, and how Tom Holland’s Peter finally becomes the comics character.
The Vanquishers has to resolve every thread Flux started and does it in under an hour. Three Doctors, four villains, and almost no room to land any of it.
Survivors of the Flux finally explains Division and the Doctor’s lost past, then buries the answer under three more subplots racing toward the finale.
Village of the Angels strands a Weeping Angel in a Devon village in 1967 and finally lets Flux be frightening. Easily the best chapter of the run.
Once, Upon Time scatters the Doctor and her friends through their own timestreams. There are strong ideas buried in here, but the hour is hard going.
War of the Sontarans drops the Doctor into the Crimean War and gives the Sontarans their best outing in years, even as Flux keeps splitting itself apart.
The Halloween Apocalypse opens Doctor Who Flux by throwing a dozen plots at the screen at once. Dan Lewis is a fine addition, but it never breathes.
Earth becomes a galactic dungeon game show and one guy in his boxers survives. Here’s why Dungeon Crawler Carl is the funniest, meanest LitRPG around.
A review of Shang-Chi, where Simu Liu holds his own on debut, Tony Leung gives the MCU its best villain, and the bus fight raises the bar for the whole franchise.
A review of Loki season 1, where Hiddleston and Owen Wilson carry a show that turns the Infinity Stones into desk clutter and rewrites how the MCU works.
A review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which never settles what it wants to be and never convinced me Sam Wilson should be carrying the shield.
A review of WandaVision, the sitcom-shaped grief story that gave Vision a proper send-off and hid its best villain in plain sight.
The Doctor breaks out of prison to find Daleks being manufactured as British security drones, in a special that works best when it stops being a plot.
Let’s break down some of the finer aspects anime has to offer as an entertainment medium, and how the circumstances in which you watch it majorly affect the overall experience.
In the Terran Privateer, the Earth is on the brink of a technological renaissance with the discovery of inertialess hyperspeed drives, and compressed matter armor. However, this discovery puts them square in the crosshairs of the universe at large which they realize when an alien armada destroys the UESF (United Earth Space Force) and takes control of the Earth.
let’s talk about Life in the North. Written by Canadian author Tao Wong it is a quintessential LitRPG and definitely worth reading.