At long last, Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has landed on our screens – with quite an impact. The streaming service’s crown jewel and the most expensive television show ever produced, the Lord of the Rings prequel series has to balance intense public scrutiny with a wide-reaching story that spans thousands of years of J.R.R.
Read MoreThe two-episode premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Prime Video, was such a beautiful and epic return to the land of Middle-Earth. Leading up to the show’s arrival, I had tempered my expectations just in case this new chapter in the rich work of J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t measure up to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the
Read MoreAfter what has felt like such an excruciatingly long wait, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has finally premiered on Prime Video. It’s been almost five years since Amazon purchased the television rights of J.R.R. Tolkien’s expansive world of Middle-earth, which feels like forever in such a dedicated fandom. Finally, the first two episodes of this epic fantasy
Read MoreHonestly, I am baffled it has taken this long for Sylvester Stallone to make his outing into the superhero subgenre. Aside from minor roles in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 and The Suicide Squad, Stallone has been a mere inevitability for the vast catalog of superhero projects. Prime Video’s Samaritan finally delivers a story of idolatry, questioning what
Read MoreThe world-building displayed in this Prime Video adaptation of the 2015 comic book with the same name is too complicated for its own good. But when you squint past the forgettable names for vehicles, weapons, and armies that are of little to no consequence, you’ll find a cast with a big heart, trying to navigate enormous problems and emotional baggage. [Warning:
Read MoreThe Boys season 3 has wrapped up with a simultaneously meditative and explosive finale. Time and again they have effortlessly delivered some of the most fantastic TV in recent memory, and I just want to wallow in it for a little bit. While I certainly don’t think my writing abilities are on par with that of the writers for The Boys,
Read MoreRight when you think The Boys can’t raise the stakes any further, season 3 went out of its way to shut us all up. Once again we are served eight fantastic and well-paced episodes that leave you feeling satisfied at the end. I am thrilled knowing the show plans to begin shooting in a month for the fourth season. If you
Read MoreWithin 10 minutes of pressing play on “Payback,” season 3 of The Boys lets you know just how absolutely insane things are really going to get. If you want to go in spoiler-free, come back to this review later, otherwise, read on for my thoughts on the newest season’s first 3 episodes. [Spoiler warning for the first 3 episodes of The Boys
Read MoreFrom Megaton to Girdershade, Paradise Falls to the Republic of Dave, we’re coming to you cosmic wastelanders, with a special report about Prime Video’s Fallout TV series. Unlike the settlement at Grayditch, things for the upcoming Fallout series are not quiet and appear to be moving along. We’ve found evidence that filming for Fallout will begin in late June of this
Read MorePeople of the cosmic wasteland, we finally have an update from out there in post-apocalyptia. Ella Purnell, who recently starred as Jackie in Showtime’s psychological drama Yellowjackets, will star in the new TV show alongside Walton Goggins. Deadline reported this news on Wednesday. Purnell is likely to play a lead character named Jean. Jean is a human woman who is “hiding a dangerous secret.” Jean appears to be an
Read MorePeople of the Cosmic Wasteland, it is I…Three-Dog…er… Ayla with news more fantastic than an ice-cold Nuka-Cola or Sunset Sarsaparilla. Fallout fans finally have a reason to celebrate after an extended tour of patrolling the Mojave without action. On Friday afternoon, the Hollywood trades reported that Walton Goggins was cast in a lead role in the dark comedy based on the video game
Read MoreThe Second Age of Middle-earth is nigh and information and footage have been scarce up until this point. However, Amazon’s Prime Video dropped the first trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power during Sunday night’s Super Bowl game. And if the win by the L.A. Rams wasn’t enough to excite you, the first trailer for this highly anticipated
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