Today on the 5: Over the weekend I decided to roll the dice on a newer horror film about a subject that doesn't have many entries. I landed on 2024's Monster Island, a World War II movie about enemies who end up on an island with an merman-like creature. It ended up being generally serviceable with a few notably positive elements. 

Today on the 5: The 2025 series Alien: Earth has concluded what will either be the first or only season to some pretty divisive reception. Lando and I have now finished the second half of episodes (including the finale) and we'll be diving deep into the details on Friday. Before that, I wanted to provide my spoiler free review of the series overall.

Today on the 5: I watched a YouTube video late last week that was deeply informative and provided me with fascinating new information that I likely would not have sought out on my own. Sounds great, right? It was, but the problem is the presenter used a particular way of speaking that would likely alienate a lot of viewers. I've been noticing this more and more, and I'm wondering why it's happening.

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Today on the 5: I came across a YouTube video detailing the entire "mythology" story of The X-Files and explaining why it's not nearly as complex or convoluted as some people think it is. It's a great video, but it reminded me that I was very happy with how the original seriues ended.

Today on the 5: For another one of our commentary films this week, Lando and I watched the recently released remake of The Toxic Avenger. We went into this movie with fairly low expectations since it's a remake of a Troma film, but we were both blown away by how good this movie is. From the filmmaking to the writing, this movie has it all!

Today on the 5: For one of our commentary films this week, Lando and I watched 1992's Full Contact. This movie is a Chow Yun-Fat vehicle that would probably be a lot more well known if not for another action film he starred in that same year that hit slightly harder. Even so, this is a fun film with some wildly unique characters and film techniques.

Tonight I'm joined again by professor and musician Doug Bielmeier for another Late Night Series Review! In this episode, we're continuing our analysis of the incredible 2020 limited series DEVS by Alex Garland. In the finale of the series, we're talking about parts 7 and 8!

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Today on thbre 5: Sony announced a remaster of classic PC game Deus Ex in their latest State Of Play event. I didn't pay much attention to it since I already have a wonderfully modded version of it on PC, but then I started seeing a lot of anger around it online. I looked into it, and while I don't think it;s as universally bas as others do, it did make a fatal mistake by getting what I would consider the most important part of the visuals completely wrong.