Tag: REVIEW

Review: Carmilla Season 2

Review: Carmilla Season 2

TOTAL SCORE 83% We needed to wash the bad taste of Hemlock Grove out of our mouths, so we went back to an old favorite. We powered through the first season and loved that about as much as we ever did, then watched the Christmas Special, and started up 

Movie Review – See No Evil 2

Movie Review – See No Evil 2

TOTAL SCORE93% One day you will die. There’s a saying that runs that only two things are unavoidable – death and taxes. Taxes are something that we’ve made up as a society, and they’ll fade with us. Death, on the other hand? Wherever there’s life, 

Movie Review: American Mary

Movie Review: American Mary

TOTAL SCORE 91% There’s a guy I know that gets very upset when he looks at the modern world. It’s hard to blame him. There’s people that think that Gamergate is seriously about ethics, as opposed to being about some jilted idiot getting revenge on a 

Vikings – Raiding History

Vikings – Raiding History

TOTAL SCORE93% Drawing upon history to create entertainment is nothing new. Shakespeare himself was fond of crafting historical fan-fiction with works like MacBeth or Julius Caesar, and every writer before and since has added to the stock pile. Most of the time, these works are 

Fifty Shades of Do Not Want

Fifty Shades of Do Not Want

Fifty Shades of Grey is a textbook for abuse. It terrifies me that people are going to read this book or see this movie and think that this is an okay way to act, that any of the things that Christian Grey does are even the slightest shade 

Movie Review – Assault on Arkham

Movie Review – Assault on Arkham

TOTAL SCORE 89% Last week, we talked about how Justice League – Throne of Atlantis was a very pretty but ultimately forgettable movie. The animation, character designs, and voice acting were all about perfect, but the story made little to no sense and the character arcs were largely 

Evolving Television – Yes Plot, No Plot, Where Plot?, There Plot!

Evolving Television – Yes Plot, No Plot, Where Plot?, There Plot!

Elementary is one of those shows that polarizes people. It had the unfortunate timing to come out after BBC’s Sherlock, which got this whole Benedict Cumberbatch thing started by being, well, incredible. Sherlock translated Sherlock Holmes into the modern world in a believable way, with interesting characters and cases, 

Book Review – Cat’s Maw

Book Review – Cat’s Maw

Fourteen years ago, three kids living in the wilds of North Vancouver came together and changed the world. One of their number, Brooke Burgess, had a vision that he called Broken Saints, and with the help of the other two he fashioned one of the first 

Carmilla the Webseries Reviewed

Carmilla the Webseries Reviewed

Daylight Savings Time. What a terrible and outdated concept, or so I’m told – being an insomniac means I’m often a little behind on keeping track of our bi-annual time jump, though the differences between my cell phone and microwave are happy to remind me