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Looks Like the Cows Have Come Home to Roost | The Naked Gun 2 1/2 (1991) & The Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994)

The Naked Gun 33 1/3 - Anna Nicole Smith, Fred Ward, Leslie Nielsen & Priscilla Presley

Given that most comedy sequels already struggle to live up to the original films they follow, how well can two such sequels be expected to weather the passage of time thirty-plus years later? I asked myself that question and, honestly, braced for the worst when I sat down to binge both The Naked Gun 2… Read More Looks Like the Cows Have Come Home to Roost | The Naked Gun 2 1/2 (1991) & The Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1994)

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Not Very Starfleet | Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) on Paramount+

Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) - Michelle Yeoh

Long delayed from its original announcement almost a half-dozen years ago, the planned Star Trek: Discovery spinoff series Section 31 was eventually reduced to a television movie deposited onto streaming in the late January dumping ground. That this project saw any completion at all is no doubt a consequence of star Michelle Yeoh having won… Read More Not Very Starfleet | Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) on Paramount+

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Look More Like Little Shreks to Me | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

Seven years have passed since the last Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie played on cinema screens, which must mean it’s about time for a new theatrical reboot. The franchise reinvents itself once every decade or so, jumping back and forth between live-action and animation with each reworking. The latest iteration, called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:… Read More Look More Like Little Shreks to Me | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)

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Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go! | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze 1991

After the surprise success of the 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Chinese studio Golden Harvest rushed out a sequel to hit theater screens less than a year later, hoping to cash-in again before Turtlemania subsided. From a business perspective, that was probably a smart decision. Although nowhere near as big a blockbuster, Teenage Mutant… Read More Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go! | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

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All Right Then, From the Beginning… | Mission: Impossible (1966) Series Premiere

Mission: Impossible (1966)

Coming up soon on six decades since its inception, the Mission: Impossible franchise is, remarkably, still going strong. Of course, the property has changed quite a bit in that time, as it transitioned from a team-based espionage TV show to a Tom Cruise action blockbuster movie series. In fact, looking back on the pilot episode… Read More All Right Then, From the Beginning… | Mission: Impossible (1966) Series Premiere

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It’s Not Like He’s Saving the World or Anything | True Lies (1994) HD Streaming Comparisons

True Lies (1994)

One of the biggest blockbuster hits of 1994, and a movie still well-remembered and well-liked by most viewers almost three decades later, True Lies is a sad case of a piece of popular art that has fallen victim to its creator’s indifference toward it. Now seventeen years into the Blu-ray era, True Lies remains absent… Read More It’s Not Like He’s Saving the World or Anything | True Lies (1994) HD Streaming Comparisons

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Hope Is Never Lost | Star Trek: Picard Series Finale (2023) on Paramount+

Star Trek: Picard Series Finale (2023)

Endings can be a very tricky thing to get right, especially the third time around. After seven seasons on the air, Star Trek: The Next Generation bid a satisfying farewell to television in the 1994 series finale episode, All Good Things. Unfortunately, the crew’s subsequent feature film career mostly underwhelmed. In fact, their last outing… Read More Hope Is Never Lost | Star Trek: Picard Series Finale (2023) on Paramount+

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It’s Gonna Be Different This Year | Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023) Paramount+ Series Premiere

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023)

Revisited a much-loved pop landmark from the heart of the Baby Boomer era with a pointedly more diverse cast and a stronger focus on the female point-of-view, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies feels like it was explicitly (if not expressly) designed to inflame our current culture wars and drive the anti-“woke” crowd absolutely insane… Read More It’s Gonna Be Different This Year | Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023) Paramount+ Series Premiere

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