Music in 1969 By Matthew Martin| September 13, 2019 Music 1969 was an important year for popular music, as the old guard of rock and roll reached their swan song status, and new players in town burst onto the scene. Let's book back on what made the year so transformative, fifty years ago...
All Elite Wrestling is coming to TV…what does it mean? By Matthew Martin| September 12, 2019 Wrestling Are you ready for a new Wrestling TV war? Well I'm not, and thankfully, I don't have to be because there isn't one coming...
REVIEW: IT Chapter 2 fails to match the greatness of the first By Matthew Martin| September 6, 2019 Movie Reviews Two years ago, IT blew away expectations and made a staggering $700mm in cinemas. The movie only told half of Stephen King's humongous story, and this weekend, IT Chapter Two premieres, and this time it does so amidst high expectations. Does the movie live up to them? Read on...
AEW ALL OUT 2019 Review! By Matthew Martin| September 3, 2019 AEW The upstart wrestling promotion has held it's final big show before the debut of its new TNT weekly program. Did ALL OUT effectively set the stage for a new WWE challenge or did it stumble in its final steps? Full review here...
What’s next for the DCEU? By Matthew Martin| August 28, 2019 Movie Blogs After Aquaman and Shazam restored box office and critical successes to Warner Bros. comic book universe, it's time to look ahead to what's next. From the looks of things, interconnected stories seem to be on the back-burner, with stand-alone movies carrying the slate...
1999 was a Mt. Vesuvius of pop culture By Matthew Martin| August 25, 2019 Movie Blogs, Music If you are under the age of, let's say twenty-five, you might not be able to appreciate what kind of a year 1999 was. In short, if you were a fan of any kind of genre about anything, there was something for you in the final year of the 90's...
REVIEW: Ready or Not is “dark comedy” done right By Matthew Martin| August 24, 2019 Movie Reviews The premise is simple to explain: "You have to play hide and seek but if they find you they kill you." That's it. It shouldn't have resulted in a movie as great as this was, but it did...
The Fox X-Men movie series is dead. What went wrong? By Matthew Martin| August 23, 2019 Movie Blogs In the mid-90's, Fox bought the rights to the most culturally relevant superheros in the Marvel roster. What they did with the X-Men was...a mixed bag. Let's look back on the dirty dozen movies released under the X-Men banner, splitting them between the highs and LOWS of Fox's ownership...
The Fox X-Men movie series is dead. What went right? By Matthew Martin| August 22, 2019 Movie Blogs In the mid-90's, Fox bought the rights to the most culturally relevant superheros in the Marvel roster. What they did with the X-Men was...a mixed bag. Let's look back on the dirty dozen movies released under the X-Men banner, splitting them between the HIGHS and lows of Fox's ownership...
Disney vs Sony, with Spider-Man in the middle By Matthew Martin| August 21, 2019 Movie Blogs Spider-Man's real enemy is greed. Let's talk about the deal to bring Marvel's most popular character to the MCU and how it's all fallen apart...
REVIEW: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is “Teenager Goosebumps” By Matthew Martin| August 15, 2019 Movie Reviews Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark isn't going to revolutionize horror, but it can, despite a weak overall story, sufficiently inject some nightmare fuel into the minds of its target audience, ages 11-16. Full review here...
Where have you gone, Rick Moranis? By Matthew Martin| August 14, 2019 Movie Blogs After a string of successful roles in the 1980's and early 90's Rick Moranis essentially walked away from Hollywood, leaving a hole in the industry that has never been filled. It's been twenty-five years since he starred in a major motion picture. Where have you gone, Rick Moranis, and are you ever coming back?
Your SO OF COURSE preview of WWE SummerSlam 2019 By Matthew Martin| August 9, 2019 WWE Blogs In this day and age, you can’t just “predict” a PPV anymore, you have to account for the capricious whims of WWE’s septuagenarian, sleep-deprived egomaniac owner. You can’t just “preview” a PPV…you have to prev...
Every Quentin Tarantino movie ranked! By Matthew Martin| July 31, 2019 Movie Blogs In honor of the release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (review included here), let's look back on Quentin Tarantino's filmography. No QT movie is bad, but some have risen to be better and more timeless than others...
The Blair Witch Project is still awesome…twenty years later By Matthew Martin| July 24, 2019 Movie Blogs It's hard to appreciate the cultural impact The Blair Witch Project had on the late 90's world. It was monumental and cinema-defining. Twenty years later it's lumped in with a lot of garbage but let's look back on the original film, to see how well it holds up...
The Lion King (2019) is a hot mess. By Matthew Martin| July 19, 2019 Movie Reviews The Lion King is going to make two billion dollars. It's going to dominate the cinema for the next two months. Simply put, no one is going to care just how big of a misfire the movie actually is...
Batman 1989 was not Batman…until it was. By Matthew Martin| July 16, 2019 Movie Blogs Tim Burton's first take on the caped crusader was transformative, radical, bizarre, and brilliant. Thanks to incredible music, set design, and casting, Batman 89 remains a must-see comic book movie, thirty years later. Let's talk about it...
AEW: pros and cons after three PPVs By Matthew Martin| July 15, 2019 AEW After three big PPV events, let's evaluate where the still very young AEW stands at the moment. As far as I see it there are three things to note, one good, one bad, and one in the middle...
Your SO OF COURSE Preview of WWE Extreme Rules 2019 By Matthew Martin| July 12, 2019 WWE Blogs Because you can't just predict a WWE PPV, you have to account for the capricious whims of WWE's sleep-deprived, egomaniac owner and always assume the worst possible outcome is in the cards. Thus...THIS is your SO OF COURSE preview of WWE EXTREME RULES!
Stranger Things season four WILD SPECULATION By Matthew Martin| July 9, 2019 TV Blogs After a too-long hiatus, Stranger Things is back with a spectacular third season. We'll have the full review up soon, but in the meantime let's commence the WILD SPOILER-FILLED SPECULATION about what comes next!
