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The Devil Wears Prada (Film) – Review

A few years ago now at another (dead) site, I wrote about how my tastes differ from most men my age. Unlike other 20-something men who probably like watching Tom Cruise pretend he’s actually entertaining, I adore Aline Brosh McKenna’s adaptation of…

Star Trek: Lower Decks “Moist Vessel” – Review

I’ve been waiting for the cold opens to actually be about something instead of just being a quick joke that has mostly nothing to do with the following events, this episode delivered. “Moist Vessel” – yes, that’s its name – is written…

The Final Gambit (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) – Review

For me, capping off a book or a series is a very risky gamble for any author to pull off. While I had my misgivings with some of the direction that The Hawthorne Legacy took, I dove into Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ The Final Gambit with…

Code Vein (PC) Review

Dark Souls and the Soulslike genre is one of which I have a small amount of experience. I’ve ironically played the original Demons’ Souls on PlayStation 3 and about an hour and a half of the first Dark Souls, but that has…

Vampire Survivors (PC) Review

It has been said a few times that nothing is ever truly original anymore and that we’re all just rehashing the same ideas with a fresh coat of paint. While I don’t necessarily agree with that idea, it is rare for a…

Pokémon Scarlet (Switch) Review

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet mark the beginning of the ninth generation of the Pokémon franchise and the first truly open-world RPG for the series. I was looking forward to these new entries after the release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus in January of…

Star Trek: Lower Decks “Temporal Edict” – Review

This one is called, let’s rock this place until the dilithium crystals crack! 1, 2, 3, 4! Joking aside, the cold open with its non-sequitur nature in this episode did make me giggle. Though that might have been from the fact I…

Best Served Cold (Book) – Review

The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie is easily one of my favorite fantasy series of all time. It is brutally honest grimdark fiction at its finest and features some of the most incredible characterizations I’ve had the pleasure of reading. Abercrombie…

Fallout: New Vegas (PC) – Review

As I tried to explain during last month’s Prime Gaming rundown, Josh Sawyer’s 2010 hit Fallout: New Vegas has never been my go-to play in the series. RPGs and I never got along when I fell into my love of games, mostly for reasons…

Spider-Man 2 (PS2) – Review

I know we’re past the point of talking about the Spider-Men from the MCU phases and how it was special to have Takuya Yamashiro show up for that scene at the end of No Way Home. Nonetheless, I think it is worth going…