Jake Matthews

Silksong is a pretty perfect follow-up to Hollow Knight... sure, it "feels" very similar to the original, but what did you expect/want after the original defined how a metroidvania should feel? I think Silksong is paced rather perfectly, which was a slight issue I had with the original. A metroidvania shouldn't waste any time getting to the action if it doesn't have a rich story and character development to worry about. And a souls-like shouldn't hold your hand by offering tutorials. I'm only about 7 hours into Silksong, but I absolutely love the setting, the steady diet of bosses, and Hornet, who actually talks to everyone she encounters, unlike the original's PC. Game Pass is officially a MUST for any Xbox/PC gamer!

Good show. Good action, good plot, good animation by MAPPA, not much character development... well worth the watch from fans of Ergo Proxy, Monster, etc.

Favorite AC since Black Flag. Truly an open-world RPG with many truly fun side quests, Rockstar Games-like worldly "random" encounters and events, and very fun activities like flynting and the dice game! .. honestly, while AC certainly isn't one of my favorite game series, I would, at least, say it was heavily inspired by one of my "all-time elite 5: games series", The Witcher series. No matter if you agree or not, it definitely adopts a similar dance-like fighting style and unorthodox weapon equip system.

This is what Star Wars is supposed to be. Every actor was amazing, the plot wasn't too much, and was just perfect, the comedy relief was actually funny, the fighting was good, and it had the best Vader scene in any Star Wars movie. Vader is supposed to make even the viewers feel the terror of the dark side when he gets serious, and they never really showed that side of him before this movie. The scene at the end when he rips through those rebel fighters in that hallway made the hairs on my arms stand up. Immaculate, and not overdone. It lasted just as long as it should've. I'll say it again, the CASTING... perfection. Mads Mikkelson was a perfect choice, I loved the main character. A strong willed, serious woman who doesn't try too hard to be a "badass chick" like the Wonder Woman actress or the Zoey Saldana roles she does, and she just plays the role with passion and talent. I loved her in this. The security droid was freakin hilarious too, and I'm really critical of humor in sci-fi movies because comedy becomes cheesy or forced way too easily to me. But that character was done perfectly. Yeah, I wasn't huge on the pilot dude (forget his name), but the one who owns the droid and was kinda supposed to be the Han Solo type character. But he wasn't bad, and didn't hurt the movie in my opinion. Forest Whitaker was a great choice too. Idk, I just loved the vibe and everything else about this movie. It and The Mandalorian gives me hope that Disney is figuring Star Wars out and realizing that it doesn't have to be some big Hollywood production with romance, comedy, action, sadness, redemption, and the whole overdone routine.. as long as it's a well written script, well casted, and has passionate people behind it who know and respect Star Wars, it will be a hit. And it's gotta be something new. P.S. The Jedi Fallen Order video game is also a huge hit in my opinion (I'm in the middle of it now), so that's 3 Star Wars original stories that Disney has done very well. There's hope! lol

Another masterpiece from Mike Judge. He always does a completely different vibe (Beavis & BH, Office Space, King of the Hill, Silicon Valley). It's equally impressive and interesting how Mike Judge operates. I honestly have no clue what his next thing will be (other than the return of King of the Hill), but I am certain that I will not see it coming and I will love it. I loved the casting in Silicon Valley (especially Jared, Richard, Gavin and Gilfoyle), and it was, in my opinion, Thomas Middleditch's breakout role. He was everywhere after those first few seasons; especially those stupid Verizon commercials.. lol. But I honestly thought that T.J. Miller left at just the right time, if not a smidge too late. He fit and made sense the first 3 seasons, but then he just had no place and his personality just didn't really mesh with the core group. Gilfoyle is the funny prick, Dunesh is the desparate egomaniac, Jared is the ultimate beta male with a slight splash of crazy serial killer, and Richard is the socially awkward genius, typical tech icon type (Gates, The Zuck, and kind of a mixture of Woz and Jobs in the sense of the Woz's hands on skill and Jobs's visionary). TJ Miller just didn't fit. I never really liked him before this show, so I may have been a little biased coming into the show, but he just played the same character he always plays... loud and obnoxious, always has to be the funniest character in the room, and he's a stoner who gets messed up on occasion. Not my cup of tea, and typically not a Mike Judge kind of actor. All in all, this was an amazing journey of a show. It never got stale. The story always kept jumping up at you and yanking you on another roller coaster ride that Richard somehow finds a way to safely stop while also being on the coaster while it's moving. Mamba Mentality, lol. I hope Alec is right and there will be a Silicon Valley movie in the future; following the story of where the orange flash drive is, and it could possibly be heavily AI themed, what with that basically being the "weapon" that Pied Piper became.

It's Star Wars.. I feel like every Star Wars is unfairly reviewed in the eyes of the viewer and critic because of the high expectations. Especially today's Star Wars movies and the 2000s first 3 episodes. But A New Hope was the first of the series and it honestly only gets 5 stars and not 4 because it was so innovative and had started a whole new world of space-age in cinema. Obviously Star Trek was the one who made space sci-fi popular and paved the way for Star Wars, but TV and movies are two different worlds.. so I see both of them in the same vein as Pink Floyd & King Crimson in the 60s and The Beatles for that matter. A New Hope is a wonderful movie introducing us to the beloved character that would soon become icons. I was never a huge fan of Mark Hamill's performance as Luke, but almost every other actor played their role immaculately.

Man... for all the good things they did, this movie was absolutely ruined for me when she did the Jedi mind trick... unless she's the Mary Sue, that was absolutely asinine. It takes years of meditation and Jedi training to reach that kind of understanding of the force and what a Jedi can do with it.

Some good parts but Hayden's Anakin is wayyy too focused on and he doesn a very poor job portraying the internal struggle with the dark side and his emotional outbursts are way too unbelievable and corny. He made me feel like he was always trying to look cool or good looking for the girls in every scene instead of letting himself go and pour himself into the role. Darth Maul and Qui-Gon should've not been killed off in the legendary fight scene from Phantom Menace. If they were still in the story in this one, they could've done so much more with the plot and with Anakin's journey to the dark side.. as well as Obi-Wan's journey. This episode was more of a corny romance that completely went away from what this trilogy had over the original 3, the brilliant lightsaber battles.