Star Trek Picard S01E05 Review: Stardust City Rag – A mixed bag By Matthew Martin| February 22, 2020 TV Blogs Picard's fifth outing is a marginal step-up from last week, but there's just not much for these good actors to work with here.
Nintendo’s Switch is turning three…here’s what it (still) lacks By Matthew Martin| February 18, 2020 Video Game Blogs Happy third birthday to the Nintendo Switch. The console is going strong despite some notable absences...
REVIEW: Sonic the Hedgehog might just be the start of something… By Matthew Martin| February 17, 2020 Movie Reviews Sonic the Hedgehog is the best game-to-film adaptation yet, a confident first outing for one of the 90's biggest mascots, and (maybe) the start of a new it-genre in Hollywood.
Star Trek Picard S01E04 Review: Absolute Candor – An absolute bore By Matthew Martin| February 14, 2020 TV Blogs Patrick Stewart's mellowed take on Picard continues to be a surreal spectacle, but this week there's not much around him that's anywhere near as delightful.
Does a Star Wars trilogy need to be planned out in advance? By Matthew Martin| February 9, 2020 Movie Blogs The Sequel Trilogy lacked a central voice guiding the whole affair, but it's unfair to say the whole thing is a failure just because it didn't have a plan...
REVIEW: Birds of Prey would have been better with just the Birds By Matthew Martin| February 8, 2020 Movie Reviews Birds of Prey is better than Suicide Squad, but there's little worth revisiting in a movie that manages to do all the important things completely backwards.
Star Trek Picard S01E03 Review: The End is the Beginning…of act one By Matthew Martin| February 7, 2020 TV Picard's show's third episode ends the storyline's first act. We're through the looking glass; now we see where this story is actually going.
REVIEW: Gretel & Hansel is a half-measure horror By Matthew Martin| February 2, 2020 Movie Reviews A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood, what could go wrong?
Mortal Kombat is still awesome…twenty-five years later By Matthew Martin| February 2, 2020 Movie Blogs We're looking back on some of the great and most memorable movies from 1995. Up first is a cult classic that remains on the best video game adaptations ever...
Star Trek Picard S01E02 Review: Maps and Legends – Asks a lot of questions (and that’s it) By Matthew Martin| January 31, 2020 TV We're two episodes into Star Trek Picard. You can catch our previous review here (score below)... https://www.cultofwhatever.com/2020/01/picard-s01e01-remembrance-review-picard-is-back-and-so-is-star-trek/ ...
The Wednesday Night War Report: January 2020 By Matthew Martin| January 31, 2020 AEW, Wrestling AEW lost momentum in November, both companies floundered during Christmas, but January was a great bounce-back. Still, one show dominated this month...
Review: 1917 deserves all the awards By Matthew Martin| January 26, 2020 Movie Reviews 1917 is one of the finest war films ever made...
Your SO OF COURSE preview of WWE Royal Rumble 2020! By Matthew Martin| January 24, 2020 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 ROYAL RUMBLE!
Star Trek Picard S01E01 Review: Remembrance – Picard is back…and so is Star Trek By Matthew Martin| January 24, 2020 TV Blogs Star Trek is back with a show focused on one of the franchise's best characters. Does Picard go the way of Discovery (action over thinking) or is it a return to form...
Get Hyped: The big movies of 2020 (part two) By Matthew Martin| January 15, 2020 Movie Blogs Don't miss all the big movies coming out this year. Here is part 2 of Matthew's picks of some of the biggest!
Who is to blame for the “failure” of Star Wars? By Matthew Martin| January 9, 2020 Movie Blogs The Rise of Skywalker is a failure. Whose fault is it? I have some ideas...
Get Hyped: The big movies of 2020 (part one) By Matthew Martin| January 7, 2020 Movie Blogs Strap in for a look at the big movies coming in the first half of 2020...
Your annual “Who Should Win?” Royal Rumble analysis of 2020! By Matthew Martin| January 5, 2020 WWE Blogs Did we do one of these last year? I’m too lazy to google. (we did) (more…)...
My Favorite Movies of 2019 By Matthew Martin| January 3, 2020 Movie Blogs It's time to look back on the year that was and pick out ten of the best. Here are my favorite films of 2019!
50 years ago the Beatles said “The End” By Matthew Martin| December 31, 2019 Music Half a century ago, Beatlemania ended, not with a whimper but with a bang, not due to controversy or disinterest, but simply because the foursome who led the movement were ready to say goodbye. With Abbey Road, they did just that...
