Monthly Archives - January 2025

07Jan

The Dark Herald Recommends: Dune Prophecy

I’ll start by saying it’s not for everyone. If you didn’t like the Villeneuve Dune movies you’re out and there isn’t any point in you reading further. The same goes if you’re simply not a fan of Dune in general.  There’s nothing here for you.This show was definitely a slow burn but it did finally catch fire in the last two episodes. The series’ biggest problem was viewer expectations.  After the movies, they were hoping for something a bit more exciting...

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06Jan

Disney –  The Dollar Store Tech Giant

Disney has announced something that Bob Iger lives for, a big merger.  Hulu+ Live TV will be merging with FUBOTV. For those of you who are unaware of what FUBO is, it’s a streaming service that covers cable and local channels. It’s the streaming version of Comcast and so for that matter is “Hulu+ LiveTV.”  Basically, Disney wants to Swallow HL+TV’s biggest competitor.  Now I think there is a very good chance it’s going to get shot down by the...

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03Jan

The Dark Herald Recommends Last Knights

This is from Slant Magazine. I’m only posting this quote so you can laugh at the writer’s breathtaking ignorance, unearned arrogance, and hilarious stupidity.“Last Knights is another macho celebration of honor and self-sacrifice, of fighting for “freedom” because someone else told you to, that’s devoid of any acknowledgement(SP) of the inherent irony of that ideology. This film’s neurotic code of conduct is best encapsulated by a character who insists that “the wounds of honor are self-inflicted.” When Bartok (Morgan Freeman), a...

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02Jan

It’s A Little Late for Half-Life 3 Gabe

(*sigh*). It's a little embarrassing to report on this but everyone else is doing it, so... https://twitter.com/mikeshapiroland/status/1874213952680607922 I will have to give this Half-Life 3 rumor a little more credence than would be my usual want.Mike Shapiro has never blue balled his audience before and he sure as hell wouldn't have posted this without Valve's explicit permission.I had wondered when I saw that Valve had put so much effort into their documentary on the twentieth anniversary of Half-Life 2. It was...

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01Jan

2024 – End of Year Wrapup

It’s dinner time and I finally have a moment to jot down a few thoughts about the year in pop culture.This was the year where Woke was supposedly closing up shop and the entertainment business was getting back to entertaining people. Not to be Negative Nancy but I regard this assessment as positively Doomcockian in its evidence-free optimism.  DEI has fallen out of fashion and will have to have a completely, completely different name but beyond that acknowledgment, I’ve seen...

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