John Green is one of the biggest names in Young Adult fiction. Whether you're familiar with his literary work or on YouTube, he has built a solid name and reputation with his work. When it comes to adaptations on his books, many jump to mention "The Fault in Our Stars" or "Paper Towns," but there... Continue Reading →
For a streaming service to be successful, it needs to either have an overwhelmingly large selection of popular TV shows and movies, or it needs to have a good amount of must-see original content. Unless you have small children who love the Disney Channel, Disney Plus just doesn't have enough. Between me and my girlfriend,... Continue Reading →
What if all recreational drugs where banned except for one night, just like how killing works in "The Purge"? That's the premise to 2020's "The Binge", which is the most notable thing about the film. "The Binge" follows high schoolers Griffin (Skyler Gisondo), Hags (Dexter Darden) and Andrew (Eduardo Franco), who are finally old enough... Continue Reading →
The prime of Dana Carvey came long before my time, as the only thing I really knew about him before watching 2017's "Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show" was that he was popular on "Saturday Night LIve", and his film career came crashing down with 2002's critical bomb... Continue Reading →
What happens when you build media buzz based on a product that doesn't exist? You might see something akin to 2017's Fyre Festival debacle, in which shady businessman Billy MacFarland conned people into buying tickets to a festival that never fully materialized, driven by a delusional "we'll figure it out later" mentality that saw him... Continue Reading →
2017's "The Cured," now available to stream on Hulu, reminds me a whole lot of the BBC show "In The Flesh," which I enjoyed when I wasn't watching "Doctor Who," "Orphan Black" and "Merlin" back in the day, and indeed, it has a similar premise. Like "In The Flesh," "The Cured" portrays a world that... Continue Reading →
Intro: Pardon the pun but Vampires in pop culture seem to be having a bit of a resurrection in the recent years, either with shows like Netflix's "Dracula" and "The Strain," video games like "Vampyr" and "Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2", and of course movies like the original "What We Do in the Shadows"... Continue Reading →
Last year, Disney Plus launched, and this year, NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming services is set to launch, not long after HBO Max is released to the world. I've reviewed a lot of original content from streaming services in the last year, and by far Netflix has the most volume and highest number of quality original projects.... Continue Reading →
Subscription fatigue encapsulates 2019, as everyone and their mom wants to sell you an overpriced subscription to something. In the streaming world, Disney Plus has joined the likes of HBO Max, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Crackle, Mubi, Acorn TV, and Freeform. If you liked Loot Crate, there is about fifty thousand likewise subscription boxes... Continue Reading →
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