This year’s “Zoo Brew Beer Festival”, presented by Rock Star Beer Festivals, was held digitally and was sponsored by Sonoma, California’s “Safari West Park”, a conservation park dedicated to preserving animals found in the great wild outdoors, with a specific concentration on species found in Africa. As such, my wife and I purchased our tickets…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 10 “You Might Also Like” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: A- Housewife Jane Warren is stuck in a tree. She’s unable to move because one of her legs is tied to a medicine ball which is also tied to a large chair from her bedroom. Jane knew she’d be…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 9 “Try, Try” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: B- Let’s just get this out of the way, it’s like watching Groundhog Day…if it were hosted like a CNN interview and limited to one location. “Try, Try” is the penultimate episode of the second season of Jordan Peele’s The Twilight…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 8 “A Small Town” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: B After invasions of our planet by octopi and aliens and examinations of trust, the price of fame, and what it means to be a friend, the second season lightens up a bit with “A Small Town”, a moral tale…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 7 “A Human Face” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: D- Last year, an alien by the name of “A. Traveler”, a YouTube/social media sensation, invaded Earth and sent his buddies down to conquer it all while getting the people of a small Alaskan town to trust him. This year,…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 6 “8” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: D What if our activities on Earth caused a formerly Beta species to rise up and evolve beyond what humans are capable of? That’s the question the sixth installment of the second season of The Twilight Zone asks its audience — but…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 5 “Among the Untrodden” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: A- Irene, the new girl at St. Mary’s, moves a bunch of candles, a stack of Zener cards, and texts pertaining to various psychic phenomena into the old girl’s bathroom in the basement. Her intentions are to study and examine…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 4 “Ovation” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: D+ I’ve often thought about what would happen if myself or my wife became famous and everyone suddenly knew our names. It’s not because I have a giant ego. It’s because I’ve seen what happens to people who have it all. Would…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 3 “The Who of You” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: B “You know what I think? I think that we’re all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 2 “Downtime” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: C What if the world around you wasn’t real? What if everything you knew — your spouse, your kids, your relatives, your job, everything you owned, knew, and loved — was a complete lie? Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Science-fiction…
THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season 2, Episode 1 “Meet in the Middle” Available on CBS All-Access GRADE: B+ Every single one of us, man or woman, has been Phil Hayes. By his own admission, he’s not successful, he’s not some alpha male with a swinging dick…there’s nothing remarkable about him — yet, there’s Hayes, sitting there,…
It’s nearly Thanksgiving and we’re doing something only a couple of websites have done: watch every episode of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” and rank each one. I’d love to sit here and pontificate about the show’s history and how great it was…but 1) you’ve heard it all before 2) you don’t really wanna sit here…
Hello and Happy Labor Day Weekend, everyone, and welcome to Weekend Movie Brawls! Here, we take an in-depth look at films with similar themes or stories and we pit them against each other in a competition based on their merits. For example, it can be two animated films of the same type, two films which…
All Out Date: August 31, 2019 Location: Sears Center, Chicago, Illinois Commentators: Jim Ross, Excalibur, Alex Mendez It’s time for the fourth AEW show and the final one before we get to the weekly TNT show. This show might not mean as much as the other shows as it is all leading up to October,…
Smackdown Date: August 27, 2019 Location: Raising Cane’s River Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Commentators: Corey Graves, Tom Phillips, Byron Saxton The first round of the King of the Ring wraps up tonight and it’s getting pretty clear that Raw is the favored side. The talent pool just feels deeper over there as this show is…
