IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 6 “The Gauntlet” AIR DATE: May 21, 2017 GRADE: — Here we are at the finish line for the first season (and, hopefully, the LAST for a long while) of “Iron Chef Gauntlet”. All the other chefs are gone and there’s one remaining who will run tonight’s “Iron Chef…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 5 “Five Ingredients” AIR DATE: May 14, 2017 GRADE: — Last week, we lost Chef Nakajima which, in my opinion, destroyed all of what this show had going for it. This week, there’s a twist: two chefs will go home and the winner of today will face off against the…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 5 “The Beast of Hollow Mountain” Available on Netflix GRADE: A- If you wanna look on the bright side, “The Beast of Hollow Mountain” is kinda like Marvel’s “The Avengers” in that both films take forever to get to the good part. But then, unlike “The Avengers”, this film continues…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 4 “Classic Combos” AIR DATE: May 7, 2017 GRADE: — Welcome back to the Iron Chef Gauntlet recap series at Matt’s Entertainment! When we last left The Stadium de Kitchen, Chef Nakajima had beaten his second opponent in a row, knocking Chef Gulotta out of the game. Who’s next on the chopping…
TANKED Season 12, Episode 3 “Shark Byte” AIR DATE: May 5, 2017 GRADE: — This week’s edition of Tanked is a nice breath of fresh air because it doesn’t involve celebrities and focuses, instead, on what the guys and gals at ATM did before they were mixing it up with the rich and famous. NEW…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 4 “Avalanche” Available on Netflix GRADE: B- We’ve seen 60’s camp and we’ve been through 80’s awfulness…so what’s left? The 70’s! Rock Hudson and Mia Farros star in “Avalanche”…and I feel compelled to mention that Steven Franken from last week’s experiment, “The Time Travelers” returns here as “McDade”,…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 3 “Sweet and Savory” AIR DATE: April 30, 2017 GRADE: — When we last left The Other Kitchen Stadium, Chef Nakamura and Chef Sawyer got into a fight to the death over bananas with Nakamura standing tall at the end of it with the best combo of bananas and…
TANKED Season 12, Episode 2 “Kevin Smith’s Tor-tally Awesome Tank” AIR DATE: April 28, 2017 GRADE: — Welcome back to our recap of Animal Planet’s Tanked! This week sees the guys visiting the filmmaker/comic book writer, Kevin Smith. Let’s see what goes down… LOS ANGELES, CA Kevin Smith’s Mansion The boys roll up to Kevin…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 3 “The Time Travelers” Available on Netflix GRADE: B- Ever wanted to go forward in time to an era where mankind has survived the apocalypse and progressed to living in a swag cave with a bunch of nightmarish android slaves, a spa full of naked women and “love…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 2 “Nose to Tail” AIR DATE: April 23, 2017 GRADE: — Last week saw Chef Nyesha Arrington getting sent home in an upset after a fierce Lobster Battle. Six chefs remain. Also, Wo Fat is still dead, much to Alyssa’s chagrin. Let’s see what happens this week! To remind…
TANKED Season 12, Episode 1 “The Tank of Jericho” AIR DATE: April 21, 2017 GRADE: — Welcome back to Animal Planet’s “Tanked”, a reality show where two New York transplants (Brett Raymer and Wayde King) running an aquarium business out of Las Vegas build the world’s greatest fish tanks. This week’s guest star is WWE’s…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 2 “Cry Wilderness” Available on Netflix GRADE: A- How terrible is “Cry Wilderness”, the second film featured in the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 series? Aside from not having much of a cinematic footprint (seriously, check out IMDB and Wikipedia; this sucker is bare bones), it’s like “Pod People”, “Boggy Creek…
IRON CHEF GAUNTLET Season 1, Episode 1 “Into the Wild” AIR DATE: April 16, 2017 GRADE: — Iron Chef has been MIA for a good three years or so, lost in a haze of “Chopped” championships and the sound of Guy Fieri yelling about groceries. Not to be outdone, Iron Chef has chosen to re-enter the food…
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Season 11, Episode 1 “Reptilicus” Available on Netflix Host Sequences: B Riffing: A- Overall Grade: B+ I’ll just get it out of the way now so you know where I stand: For 11 years, three networks, two different hosts, four different robots, one “magic voice”, six different villains, 197 episodes and…
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