Tag Archives: On-Demand

Shotgun Wedding Review

As a pitch, Shotgun Wedding sounds like a fun time. A couple’s intimate destination wedding at a resort in the Philippines, with their family and friends, gets upended when pirates hijack the whole affair. Watch what they do to save their love and loved ones! Unfortunately, all that rom-com potential …

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Velma Season 1 Review: Episodes 1-8

Velma will premiere with two episodes on HBO Max on Jan. 12, followed by two episodes weekly. Below is a review of the first eight of ten episodes provided to press. Much has been said about Velma being the unsung hero of Mystery Inc., the Scooby-Doo sleuth who's never been …

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Dragon Age: Absolution: Season 1 Review

Dragon Age: Absolution is now streaming on Netflix. Below is a spoiler-free review. Have you heard the one where a qunari, an elf, a dwarf, and three humans walk into a bar? Well, if by walk you mean “break into” and if by bar you mean “impenetrable fortress containing an …

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Andor: Season 1 Review

The following is a spoiler-free review of Season 1 of Andor. All 12 episodes are now available to stream on Disney+. Andor is Star Wars like you’ve never seen it before. This ground-level view of a burgeoning resistance movement is a fantastic thriller that snakes through corridors of Imperial power …

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Enola Holmes 2 Review

Enola Holmes 2 is now streaming on Netflix. I was charmed by the first Enola Holmes movie. Based on a series of YA novels first published in 2007, the original was a sweet reimagining of the classic Sherlock Holmes canon, with Millie Bobby Brown turning in a charismatic performance as …

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Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind Review

Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind will release on Blu-ray and digital on Oct. 11, 2022. Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind is a movie that only die-hard Mortal Kombat fans are likely to appreciate. It's stuffed to the gills with over-the-top violence and callbacks to the two recent animated films before …

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Full Season 1 Review

Full spoilers follow for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1. Anson Mount’s arrival in the world of Star Trek could’ve very easily devolved into stunt casting if it wasn’t handled correctly, but instead the return of Christopher Pike, the original captain of the USS Enterprise, didn’t just make for …

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