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The 1 to 5 on movies: Lost Bullet

This format is a shorter, more to the point, off-shot of the normal review/op-eds I normally do. A ranking will be given at the end from a scale that starts at (from the lowest to the highest): Bad – meh – fine – good – great. Anything not appropriate for these “scores” will likely warrant […]

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The 1 to 5 on movies: The Lovebirds

This format is a shorter, more to the point, off-shot of the normal review/op-eds I normally do. A ranking will be given at the end from a scale that starts at (from the lowest to the highest): Bad – meh – fine – good – great. Anything not appropriate for these “scores” will likely warrant […]

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Polar review

Original Netflix movies had a shaky start to 2018; “Bright” was critically panned (I know it’s a late 2017 movie, but I saw it early 2018), “The Cloverfield Paradox” was disappointing, and “Mute”—which I actually liked—gave Netflix Original movies a bad reputation. Films like “Calibre”, “Cargo”, “TAU”, “Extinction”, and “How it ends”, not only kept […]

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Is there any worth in releasing bad content on a subscription-based platform?

Generally, I try to avoid bashing movies or video games on this blog; I don’t enjoy it. If I happen to experience something that is disappointing or simply bad, I generally try to find the silver lining in it, because (this should go without saying) nobody sets out to make something that is terrible; it […]

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The night comes for us

After the disappointing results of “Polar”, and having been excited for a good gory action movie, I decided to scan my long list for anything that would match that description, and then I stumbled upon it: “The night comes for us” starring the guys who worked on “The Raid” and “The Raid 2”, two of […]

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Polar

Original Netflix movies had a shaky start to 2018; “Bright” was critically panned (I know it’s a late 2017 movie, but I saw it early 2018), “The Cloverfield Paradox” was disappointing, and “Mute”—which I actually liked—gave Netflix Original movies a bad reputation. Films like “Calibre”, “Cargo”, “TAU”, “Extinction”, and “How it ends”, not only kept […]