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REVIEW: Mario Golf Super Rush
After close to 20 years, we’ve finally been given another Mario Golf title on a Nintendo console: Mario Golf: Super Rush. During the reveal trailer, they introduced several modes such as a campaign, like the fan favorites on Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance, on top of two new methods of play called Speed Golf and Battle Golf. In comparison to previous versions, Super Rush‘s way of incorporating a story mode is rather disappointing. Unlike its predecessor, there are no original characters. The closest thing to a newly introduced character is the Mii that players can choose for their savefile. In this story mode, the player gets access to different challenges…
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Suki Alone Review – Avatar: The Last Airbender
This review contains spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender Books Two and Three. Set during Book Three: Fire of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Suki Alone serves as a side story; answering questions left by the original series. We follow Suki after her encounter with Azula seen in the episode Appa’s Lost Days. Azula takes Suki to the boiling rock and that’s where the story takes place. We see Suki’s time in prison all the way until the events of the two-part episode, The Boiling Rock. Faith Erin Hicks serves as writer with illustrators by Peter Wartman and Adele Matera. The trio have written a series of books in the Avatar…
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I AM NOT STARFIRE Book Review
Spoiler Alert: This review contains minor spoilers of I Am Not Starfire. I Am Not Starfire is a young adult novel written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Yoshi Yoshitani. We follow Mandy, the daughter of the legendary superhero, Starfire, who tries to navigate the struggles of being a teenager. Being the daughter of a former Teen Titan has its fair share of problems. Mandy is supposed to have superpowers or her mother’s dazzling personality, but she’s nothing like Starfire and seems to be a disappointment to everyone around her. This novel has all of the typical story beats you’d expect to see in a coming-of-age story. Mandy is a…
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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘F9: THE FAST SAGA’
Space Cars! F9: The Fast Saga—as utterly absurd as it is—is the natural progression of a series that’s always running on overdrive. Dominic Toretto, Vin Diesel, and co. were destined for this film’s convoluted, bloated, and baffling narrative. Now, those may sound like knocks against it, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. I just don’t care how illogical the plots of these films have become. They are just too much damn fun. Dom has a secret spy brother? Sure. Why they hell not?! Magnets! How do they work? Doesn’t matter. Just bask in the awesomeness of the high octane action! Han, who was killed twice technically in cannon, returns out…
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FLASH SPOILER Review: Episode 7×17- “Heart of the Matter, Part 1”
The Flash (7×17)- “Heart of the Matter, Part 1″ Written by: Eric Wallace & Lauren Barnett Directed by: Eric Dean Seaton So we left off with Nora and Bart coming to 2021 from the future. This episode opens with the two still in the future and chasing Godspeed through the streets of Central City. Heart’s doing a running monologue about acquiring infinite velocity when he’s lassoed by Nora making interesting use of her lightning. Two can play at this game but Heart’s more of a traditional “UN-LIM-I-TED POOOOOOWWWWAAAARRRR!” Guy with his lightning attacks. However, just as Nora’s about to pay the price for her lack of vision, Bart quite…
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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘LEGEND’
Glitter and Bubbles Legend is a bizarre fantasy fever dream—one rife with an excess of pollen, bubbles, and glitter. These things are literally everywhere, folks. They flood the beautiful scenery and are unrelenting. Also unrelenting is the film’s glaring lack of plot. If you kill the unicorns, the world will be cloaked in darkness. That’s the movie. Jack o’ the Green, Tom Cruise, must atone for his mistake of introducing his crush Lili, Mia Sara, to the wonderous creatures by killing the Lord of Darkness, Tim Curry, and taking back the severed alicorn. It’s pretty to look at, wildly dumb, and almost entirely remembered for Curry’s dazzling turn as the Lord…
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FLASH SPOILER Review: Episode 7×16- “POW”
The Flash (7×16)- “POW” Written by: Kristen Kim & Dan Fisk Directed by: Marcus Stokes The episode opens on Barry watching the news coverage of the Godspeeds rampaging through Central City. Only a few seconds pass before he decides to head back out. He yells up the stairs to Iris to tell her he’s leaving. (Guessing no Candice Patton again this week.) Before he can leave Nora appears to him again and tells him something’s wrong with the future before she starts fading out of existence and he starts choking. Fortunately this is just a dream but chances are it’s not a good sign anyway. Did I mention rampaging…
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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘KRULL’
Murder Frisbee Krull is a pseudo cult classic. It’s got some kick ass box art and a host of ideas that nostalgia clouds as being awesome. But when revisiting it, neither of those two things amount to much. Why? Well, Krull is chock full world-building. It’s got a Cyclops, a cannibalistic crystal spider, horses whose speed creates a trail of flame, and so much more. But none of them are fleshed out all that well; and most of it is just ripped from better properties. And that’s because Krull was a cash grab—meant to capitalize on the popularity of those other IPs. Fantasy, in particular space operas, were kind of a thing in the late…
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FLASH SPOILER Review: Episode 7×15- “Enemy at the Gates”
The Flash (7×15)- “Enemy at the Gates” Written by: (Teleplay by) Thomas Pound (Story by) Joshua V Gilbert Directed by: Geoffrey Wing Shotz This week opens in Barry’s in CCPD, he’s hard at work when his daughter Nora appears before him with good news; Everything’s going to work out. The pair have a hug before Barry wakes up from the dream, still in his lab but Nora is nowhere to be seen. He calls Iris and tells her he thinks she might be pregnant. Well that’s certainly an interpretation! The next morning, Barry’s gathering up some samples from Iris and explaining that meta-DNA could make a pregnancy test unreliable…
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Hops and Box Office Flops: ‘CONAN THE BARBARIAN’
What’s Worst in Life? 2011’s Conan the Barbarian is as bad of a reboot of a classic film as you are going to find. It’s just a mess, folks. Its script is often witless, contradicting itself multiple times; and its cast—as distinguished as some of their careers may be—just don’t fit the roles. Worst of all, Jason Mamoa, who plays the titular hero, just didn’t appear ready to bear the weight of Conan‘s broad sword. As much as the filmmakers purported they wanted to channel the writings of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, it more shamelessly robs better films. It should come as no surprise then that this was a massive flop.…
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