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07JanJanuary 7, 2025

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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06JanJanuary 6, 2025

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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03JanJanuary 3, 2025

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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02JanJanuary 2, 2025

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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02JanJanuary 2, 2025

Sweet Baby Poisoning Detected

John Trent, the founder of Bounding into Comics and the only real journalist in pop culture reporting has YouTube channel.Please Like and Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77hXG8DmFRg Discuss on Social Galactic

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01JanJanuary 1, 2025

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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30DecDecember 30, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends: Nosferatu (2024)

(Note for the reader, I don’t normally do this but I would strongly recommend reading my essay on the original Nosferatu (1922). Some of what I reference below won’t make sense otherwise. *** Spoiler Alert: This film follows the plot of the original 1922 film. Given that the story is literally a century old I will make no effort to avoid spoilers***)Gothic horror has at long last returned from the dead.For years the grand school of cinematic fear was...

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27DecDecember 27, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends Squid Game

BUMPED (12/27/24). Since my essay on season 2 is rather brief, I've bumped up my season one review as a courtesy extra.I’ve heard several reviewers claiming this series is like Battle Royale.It’s not. It’s The Prisoner with a high body count and lots of gore.*** Spoilers from here on out. ***The title comes from a children’s game in Korea that is roughly analogous to King of the Hill. It’s a last-man-standing kid’s game. Although, there is apparently some cultural significance to squids being...

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27DecDecember 27, 2024

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend Squid Game Season 2

Writer-Director Hwang Dong-hyuk (hold the comments you are three anymore) has not delivered I’m sad to say. This isn’t season 2, It’s season 1.5.The original Squid Game was a surrealist horror story about people finding out what they will do to survive. Hwang, wrote the first iteration of Squid Game back in 2008. It was a project he couldn’t get made but never stopped pitching and when Netflix decided to start randomly financing K-Drama’s someone probably liked the rather...

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27DecDecember 27, 2024

The Amazon Bondoverse

Amazon wants to turn James Bond into a cinematic universe. This is a classic groupthink decision. We must have a multi-character franchise. We already have a single-character franchise. We must turn that into a multi-character franchise.Let the creatives do something with our brilliant decision.I really don’t know what they can do with it. Going with the movie characters (because that’s all the general audience knows about) you have James Bond, his boss, M, there used to be a secretary called Money Penny*...

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