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The Reviewinator: Ash vs. Evil Dead (Season 3)
The final season. And the end of Evil Dead as we know it. The blow would be less severe if the cancellation hadn’t happened a mere 9 days before the Season 3 finale, prompting worries that the show would end … Continue reading
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The Reviewinator: The Walking Dead (Season 8)
War. That’s what was promised at the end of Season 7. Although it took its sweet time to get there (no thanks to the narrative side-tracker that is the mid-season finale), it was enough to get people interested in what … Continue reading
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Review: Roseanne (Season 10, Episode 1)
Roseanne Barr’s sitcom was always about the blue-collar, working-class woes of the Rust Belt. With the announcement of another revamp, fans of the original series were apprehensive especially after Season 8-9 were such a grandiose failure of esoteric anticlimaxes. Happily … Continue reading
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Tagged abc, john goodman, roseanne
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Pyewacket
Pyewacket is a great little Canadian indie horror gem about a teenage girl whose father has recently died and as a consequence of arguing with her overprotective mother, decides to summon a demon with even more disastrous consequences. Canadian Nicole Muñoz … Continue reading
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Tagged demon, Laurie Holden, mother-daughter, Nicole Muñoz, occult, supernatural
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Annihilation
Alex Garland (Ex Machina) makes a fantastic return as director/writer with Annihilation, which is based on Jeff VanderMeer’s novel. It’s about five female scientists who enter a seemingly alien, jungle-like quarantine zone searching for the lost expedition. Only one of its … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Garland, alien, Natalie Portman, sci fi
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The Reviewinator: Star Trek – Discovery (Season 1)
For Star Trek, there’s been nothing but prequels since 2002, with Nemesis still trekking at the tail-end of the original timeline. Over at the beginning of said timeline, Enterprise was famously cancelled before it had the chance to make its … Continue reading
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Ma vie de Courgette (My Life as a Zucchini)
Ma vie de Courgette (a courgette is a zucchini for North American folks) is a delightful and heartwarming little stop motion film, and probably my favourite animated film since Finding Nemo. Courgette is the main character, a sensitive and intelligent little boy … Continue reading
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Tagged animated, child abuse, children, French, orphanage, stop motion
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Week: Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
David Munro’s 1979 ITV documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (written by John Pilger) captures the horrors and atrocities of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79) firsthand from the front line. While it is a hard watch, it is a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, Cambodia, documentary, genocide, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot
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