Streaming Reviews

Fallout premiered on Amazon Prime Video in April 2024, and it caught my attention immediately as yet another live action video game adaptation for streaming, coming on the heels of THE LAST OF US (HBO), TWISTED METAL (Peacock) and HALO (Paramount+). I do have some history with the Fallout Game Universe, having played Fallout 3 and then snippets of Fallout 4, but that was about it, so I am unable to comment on the faithfulness of the show to the source material's more deeper cut lore. However, I can say that it definitely captured the sometimes dark sometimes quirky sometimes darkly quirky tone of the games that I was familiar with while presenting some really lovable characters and intriguing plot twists.   Fallout (season 1 as of this writing) follows multiple story arcs that end up intertwining. The first is that of Lucy, an idealistic chirpy young woman who has lived all her life in Vault 33 with a peaceful group of like minded individuals that is run as a caricature of 195...

Rebel Moon Part 2 is the second half of Zack Snyder’s tribute to science fiction and Akira Kurosawa that began last year in Rebel Moon Part 1. Though our band of heroes triumphed against the cruel Admiral Atticus Nobel, they return to the farming community on the moon of Veldt. No sooner are they welcomed that they find out Nobel cheated death and is arriving with his Dreadnaught ship and the imperium’s legions to sack the moon, take what they need and destroy everyone involved.  In five days, the motley crew of warriors have to train the peaceful farmers into a force able to stand against imperium soldiers. Traps are dug, an entire tunnel system is created, and plans laid out for the oncoming siege. In the downtime between preparations, the warriors come clean with their pasts and their paths leading to who they are today. All this time, the ancient war robot “Jimmy” keeps watch over the community. What follows is an extended base defence sequence along with a risky gamble to infi...