The dog days of action film August give way to the slug (double meaning!) sinema of September — as “more” glorified home movies with solid casts flounder around for something to say and/or do. And then there’s “Mulan,” the pretty, well-meaning, but tone-deaf epic with the secret Prof Ric connection. Read More...

No, it’s not an episode about Doctor Who! It’s an episode about the flea-bitten flicks that crawl into the dog days of summer. So lower your expectations to Netflix levels and listen to me recognize The Big Ugly when I see it, least want Most Wanted, re the boot of Read More...

Action film reviews have got nothing on Prof Ric’s latest adventure: swimming upstream on the San Diego Comic Con @ Home’s Youtube Channel algorithms. Listen how turning his Kung Fu Extravaganza from a 150 minute decades-long favorite into this year’s 45 minute international intrigue clickbait nearly destroyed the entire pop Read More...

Think this is a podcast episode? No, it’s sequel bait for my 23rd Annual San Diego Comic Con Kung Fu Extravaganza coming up in two weeks! Ha! Got you (but while you’re here, listen to me walk away in slo-mo from My Spy, muay malay Wira, French kiss Lost Bullet, Read More...

Is it the “Let My People Go Edition” or the “Isolation’s Edge Edition”? Your choice. Either way, I make Arnie, Sly,  Bruce, Chuck, Becky, Artemis, Rick, Morty, and Nezha all about meeeeeeee!

The Beggars-Can’t-Be-Chooser’s Edition … or is it the Beggars-CAN-Be-Chooser’s Edition … or is it The Captive Audience Edition … or is it The THIS-Is-What-They-Chose-To-Do Edition? Well, of course it’s all of the above,  and more. Leave Arkansas, diaper Capone, recast John Carter, give up Coffee (& Kareem), scope Scoob, examine Read More...

From something something Atari to something something Nintendo (and way beyond), animation experts (and inveterate videogame player/fans) Jen Hurler and Miko Mai run you through the gamut/history of videogame fun ‘n’ violence in their inimitably entertaining  way — free of Prof Ric’s blather. Oh happy quarantine day!

Can’t go to the movie theater? Well, it’s coming to you! And what an … um … “interesting” buncha flix they are too! Luckily for me they come in three critical categories: male action, female action, and animation action. Luckily for you, you can take or leave my babbling and Read More...

Family friendly Disney meets fringe/freak friendly Hulu to create a nerd nirvana for all geek-lovers of scifantasy, superheroic,  supraheroic, animal, and animated action. Avengers assemble!

Welcome to the Netflix jungle, where they like their action raw and gamey; where filmmakers like their bank vaults open and their freedom unlimited; where directors like their movies & TV shows as long as they want; and the navigators like their viewers lost in a jungle of seemingly limitless Read More...