Category: 2022
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Andor – Season 1, Episodes 1-2
With Rogue One covered, it makes sense to jump straight to Andor. This is actually a weird milestone for me, as I haven’t actually seen any of the Disney+ Star Wars shows. I’ve heard good things about Obi-Wan and The Mandalorian and… not as good about The Book of Boba Fett, but I was burned out on the franchise when they debuted so I skipped them. But burnout or not, I’m tackling all these series! And I don’t feel like covering each episode one at a time like I did for most of the Marvel shows I talked about as…
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Glass Onion (2022)
I need to take a break from Star Wars media for a minute after rewatching Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. I think a lot of people did. But when I started 2024: A Star Wars Event I said I’d sometimes do Star Wars-adjacent things, and when you really think about it, that’s a really vague term, right? So I’m kicking off this week with Glass Onion, the sequel to Knives Out, written and directed by Mr. Rian Johnson. Say, didn’t he also write and direct Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi? Adjacent!
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Smile (2022)
You ever see a movie and just assume it’s not going to be good? Smile is all about creepy smiles! Oooh, I’m shaking in my boots… Plus, they showed what is most likely the best jumpscare in the trailer–if you know, you know–so what else is there? But I heard reviews were rather positive for this film. Was it actually worth watching? Or did it make me hate myself like that awful, awful movie Smiley? Writers call that a hook!
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Hellraiser (2022)
Last year for October I watched all the Hellraiser films as part of The Hellbound Halloween. That’s 10 movies about Pinhead and his fellow cenobites, with a brief break near the end because holy shit they somehow got progressively worse as time went on. So when I heard that the long-awaited Hellraiser reboot was dropping in October, I knew I had to talk about it. And so here we are on a Saturday while the weekdays are taken up by October of the Living Dead.
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The Munsters (2022)
I can’t promise that there will always be extra posts on Saturdays this month, but holy shit did I need to rant about how bad The Munsters movie was. God awful trash.
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Purple Hearts (2022)
Updates are gonna be spotty for a while. Such is life. But Purple Hearts pissed me off enough that I had to take time out of my actually busy schedule to rant about it.
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
COVID fucked up a lot of stuff. Case in point, Marvel celebrated the release of Thor: Love and Thunder because that meant they had finally caught up with all the projects announced at San Diego Comic Con 2019 (that had a release date). November 5, 2021? Whoopsie! But it’s here now, and it’s getting… very mixed reviews. And I kind of agree. To an extent, at least.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
I’ve wanted to get a tattoo for ages now–don’t worry, this will eventually tie in. My main problem is that I haven’t come up with an idea worth the time and money to get it permanently put on my body. They say you should sit on a tattoo idea for a while before pulling the trigger, and the only ideas I’ve held onto that long are comic references. Like, Lantern Corps symbols from Green Lantern, or something X-Men related. Hell, Cyclops’ visor could be cool. But I can’t bring myself to get a tattoo of a property I have absolutely…
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Morbius (2022)
I’d say it feels good to be back, but really it’s just good to have an outlet for all the dumb shit I want to say. Morbius is a perfect target, because it’s a buckwild film. I get what they were trying to do, but… the movie’s a mess from top to bottom. For the last 20 years, there’s apparently been some intern at Sony who really, really wants to make a Sinister Six movie and people keep letting him throw in story seeds, but apparently no one has the heart to tell him they all suck.
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