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AMERICAN GODS [Series Premiere Review]: Gotta Love These ‘Gods’.

Perfect. That’s the only way I can think of to describe Starz’ adaptation of my second-favorite book. Everything was just perfect, from the casting to the visuals. In my head, I always imagined Shadow as being just a touch lighter (hence the need for that line in the book), but Ricky Whittle’s performance is spot-on. …

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RIFFTRAX LIVE – SAMURAI COP / MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 [Reviews]: It’s All Ter-Riff-ic!

"WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!" If you are a fan of Mystery Science Theater...as I indeed am...the past few days have been a godsend.  Between the trio of Michael Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy skewering the bizarre, hallucinogenic Samurai Cop during the first Rifftrax Live event of 2017 (two more are slated for later this …

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IRON FIST [Season 1 Face-Off Review]: Iron Fist, or How I Learned to Strongly Dislike Protagonists.

Kevin "Pastor" Palma: Dojo history lesson time: I first started reading comics week-to-week in late 2007, and one of the very first series I got into was Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker and David Aja's Immortal Iron Fist. I jumped in with the story arc "The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven" and was off to  the races …

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SAMURAI JACK [Season 5, Episode 1 Review]: Imprisoned in Aku’s Hourglass.

I was basically raised on cartoons written, directed, produced, and created by Russian animator Genndy Tartakovsky. I still quote Dexter’s Laboratory to this day (“Omelette du fromage!”), his Star Wars: Clone Wars series actually had you liking some of those filler characters George Lucas seemingly shat onto the screen during the dreaded prequel trilogy, and …

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