The Critical Reviewer

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding... CURRENT EVENTS: The COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis is becoming mainstream... ENTERTAINMENT: The new Zack Snyder zombie movie was filmed with a messed up camera that had dead pixels in it... SPORTS: Are they going to postpone the Olympics...again?.... TECH: Tesla making autopilot cars without the use of radar and having the cars learn for themselves... SCIENCE: WMO report says Global Warming Could Pass 1.5° Celsius Within the Next Five Years... HUMOR: Jeremy’s vacation and having to install an AC unit which will probably be funny somehow.

The Crime of the Century is an American two-part documentary film, directed, produced, and written by Alex Gibney. The film follows the opioid epidemic in the United States, and the political operatives, government regulations and corporations that enable the abuse of opioids.

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding CURRENT EVENTS: Why are Republicans voting against a commission to investigate the January 6th Capitol Hill terrorist attack?... ENTERTAINMENT: AT&T drops WarnerMedia and merges with Discovery Media, Amazon wants to buy MGM, are all these different streaming services just making us head back to cable packages?... SPORTS: Are the NBA play-in games a good idea? And isn't LeBron going to be punished for breaking Health and Safety Protocols?... TECH: Racist facial recognition software could lead to innocent people getting arrested.... SCIENCE: More UFO sightings... HUMOR: The new Riddler in the upcoming BatMan movie looks like an S&M Bondage sex slave, why couldn’t they just put him in a green jacket with question marks on it?

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding CURRENT EVENTS: Gavin Newsom claiming there is a huge $75 billion California surplus right before the recall election. Says there will be new stimulus checks to Cal residents. Why didn’t he use that money last year during the shutdown when people were needing it? Is he just doing this to stay in office?.... ENTERTAINMENT: NBC cancels next year's golden globes amid HFPA scandals... SPORTS: Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit fails drug test; trainer suspended. Trainer blames cancel culture for backlash.... SCIENCE: Indian doctors warn against cow dung as Covid cure. US Customs asks travelers to stop putting cow dung in baggage... HUMOR: Elon Musk does SNL. Claims to be the first host with Asperger's when he wasn’t. Dogecoin drops after appearance. Gen Z is mad at skit... BADASS: South African cash transit driver evades high-speed heist. 

We talk about the Hulu documentary WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn. WeWork is a 2021 American documentary film, written and directed by Jed Rothstein. It follows WeWork, a real estate company run by Adam Neumann, who was ultimately forced out of the company. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 17, 2021. 

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding CURRENT EVENTS: A federal judge accused the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr of misleading her and Congress about advice he had received on whether Donald Trump should have been charged with obstructing the Russia investigation. NEWS: Decline in vaccination numbers across the country. Biden wants 70% of Americans vaccinated by July. SPORTS: Denver Broncos Offensive Lineman could lose $20 million this season because he got injured working out on his own but if he was injured at a team facility he’d get to keep the money. Is this fair during Covid restrictions time? ENTERTAINMENT: House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones spinoff, gets a batch of first-look photos. Are you excited about a GOT spin-off show? SCIENCE: Pentagon tracking out-of-control Chinese rocket that could reenter Earth's atmosphere TECH: Britain’s Royal Marines is testing jet suits to help with maritime boarding in place of a helicopter. The suit, which was created by Gravity Industries, presents a potential ‘revolution in tactical capability’ by special forces. HUMOR: Pathetic Trump Facebook ban upheld and is now “tweeting” again on a #SAD knockoff platform.

For today's very special Birthday Episode we eviscerate the new "Mortal Kombat" movie, reminisce about how much fun we had watching "Snatch" for the millionth time, and get emotional about "Love Actually". 

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding CURRENT EVENTS: CDC updates mask guidelines plus you get perks with you vaccine.... SPORTS: NFL Draft and are sports drafts weird.... ENTERTAINMENT: The Academy Awards held at Union Station was one of the worst Oscars ever and had the lowest ratings.... TECH: Dogecoin skyrockets after Elon Musk labels himself 'Dogefather'... SCIENCE: the impending mega-drought facing the SW United States... HUMOR: Rudy Giuliani under federal investigation for Ukraine deals and Andrew Guliani looking like a Will Ferrell character 

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding NEWS - Derek Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd's death.... SPORTS - Everyone hates The European Soccer Super League... ENTERTAINMENT - The Falcon and The Winter Soldier had to cut major storylines and do reshoots because it was originally about a weaponized virus from Asia, and then Covid happened... TECH - Apple Spring Keynote disappointment and Apple being sued for not really selling movies to customers on iTunes.... SCIENCE - Meet the four people who will take the first all-civilian rocket trip to orbit Earth on a Space-X ship... HUMOR - MTG can’t read "ALL 14 PAGES" of AOC’s Green New Deal

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is Malcolm Gladwell's second book. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious: mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information. Blink examines the phenomenon of snap judgments, meaning the split-second decisions we make unconsciously. These snap judgments are important decision-making tools, but can also lead to bad choices and all manner of problems. Blink explains how we can best make use of them.