Monthly Archives - July 2022

Thor: Love and Thunder – First Look

The review embargo is now lifted and it doesn't look too promising. Normally Disney requires that the access media toe the line on their AAA releases but at a freshness rating of 71% it doesn't feel like anyone is getting their arms twisted over this one. This also means that the reviewers aren't happy about an insufficient Wokeness level. As they will reliably lie for something that is bellowing The Message.There is also the problem of the film's...

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The Fall of the House of Marvel – the Foundation Crumbles

Ms. Marvel has defied my best efforts to write a review of it.  There is just nothing there to comment on.  It’s all very dull boring and tedious.  Nothing really happens.  I was left feeling bad for the lead actress Iman Vellani.  If Bree Larson had put half the effort into being as likable Vellani has, I would have been making excuses for her performance in Captain Marvel.  Vellani probably is the only genuine Ms. Marvel fan in all existence. Her story about how she made...

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July 4th 2022

But it is not so much the absurdity as the evil of hereditary succession which concerns mankind. Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most...

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ARKHAVEN’S AMAZONIAN COVERAGE OF LOTR: THE RINGS OF POWER

What happened to you Sir Lenny? How did you come to this?JRR Tolkien Responds To Terrible Screen AdaptationAmazon’s LOTR Is On A RollDisaster! Amazon Now Owns The HobbitAmazon’s Lord of the Rings TrailerOf Mice and NDAsYeah, It’s Gonna Suck – Amazons Lord of the Rings (part II) Yeah, It’s Gonna Suck – Amazon’s Lord of the Rings

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Blogs and Ends – The Chinese American Swinger Edition

You’ve got better things to do on the Fourth of July weekend than read a blog and you know it. Why are you wasting your time here? Go have fun outside with your family.FIRSTI asked myself a question on my most recently regrettable trip to Walmart. What the hell kind of Chinese name is La Choy?Turns out it was Korean. The ancient secret is soy sauce and brown sugar!!!Ilhyeong New was born in Pyongyang in 1894...

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