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- ReviewedRun Hide Fight: Infidels1d agoOkay, so I'm rating this purely on its entertainment value, leaving aside whatever "message" the filmmakers are so desperately and incompetently trying to convey. "Run Hide Fight: Infidels" is a sloppy mess, full of clichés, stereotypes, aggressively racist attempts at humor, glaring contradictions, and some of the most painfully forced one-liners I've heard in a while. The movie seems to think being offensive automatically makes something funny. Take the security guard, Terrence Kirk (David Lucas), whose entire character seemingly exists to be a walking fat joke. Nearly every appearance is another reminder that he's fat. We get it. Is there an actual character underneath all that? "Shooting at us is bad... Making us take the stairs is diabolical." Come on, man... Then there's P.J. (James Bingham), a lying, racist, terminally online gaming troll straight out of a Halo 3 or Call of Duty lobby. The kind of guy who screams slurs because you stole his kill. Somehow, we're supposed to root for this guy, despite him doing nothing but ruining the mood. Even when his own friends are trying to talk to girls they like, he manages to kill the vibe. Kwan Park (Chris K. Lee) is arguably the most likable character in the movie, only for the writers to undermine him with this painfully lazy exchange: "How can you do all of this?" "I'm Asian." Wow. Comedy gold. And Jonathan Majors? The man plastered across the posters and trailers? He's barely in the damn movie! It felt like he had ten minutes of screen time in a two-hour production. The action sequences aren't much better. They're boring, predictable, and absolutely drowning in plot armor. Characters survive situations they have no business surviving, with little to no explanation. There's no tension when the screenplay makes it abundantly clear that consequences are optional. Even the antagonists make baffling decisions. At one point, they force all the women to wear burkas. Where the hell did they get all those from? Costco?! And the one-liners. Good Lord, the one-liners. I kept thinking about how people were eating this up like it was the greatest action movie ever made, while I was sitting there wondering how anyone could deliver this dialogue with a straight face. It's painfully obvious they're trying to channel the cheesy, larger-than-life one-liners of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme, and Seagal. But those movies understood the assignment. Here, the dialogue feels like someone watched a compilation of 1980s action movie quotes and decided that was all it took. I genuinely went into this movie expecting its politics to offend me. But surprisingly, the message wasn't what bothered me most. I was far more offended by the presentation than the politics. You can make an offensive, politically charged, unapologetically ridiculous action movie and still make it entertaining. But you need compelling characters, decent action, clever dialogue, or at least some self-awareness. This movie offers little of any of that. It's not clever because it's offensive. It's not thrilling because people are shooting guns. And it's certainly not a good movie just because you agree with its politics. This is the "Melania" (2026) of the action genre. I expected to disagree with the message. I didn't expect to be insulted by the filmmaking.
- ReviewedKaijiSeptember 19, 2026I just finished both seasons of Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor and I’m honestly overwhelmed with emotion. I knew I was getting into a gambling anime. I wasn’t expecting one of the most painfully realistic depictions of human beings I’ve seen in a while. Kaiji understands human flaws, but it also understands human virtues. People are greedy, cowardly, selfish, desperate, irrational, and incredibly easy to manipulate when they’re afraid. But they can also be compassionate. They can form genuine camaraderie with complete strangers. They can risk themselves for somebody who has nothing to offer them in return. Sometimes all a person needs is for someone else to look at them when they’re at their absolute lowest and still believe they’re worth something. And Kaiji himself is such a perfect protagonist for this kind of story because he isn’t some calculating super-genius who always has everything under control. He fucks up. He trusts people he shouldn’t. He gets emotional. He gets scared. He gets cocky. He loses. Constantly. But he keeps getting back up. There’s something incredibly moving about watching this perpetual loser slowly become almost a champion of other losers. Kaiji understands these people because he IS one of them. These aren’t the winners of society. They’re debtors, failures, addicts, fuckups, poor people, desperate people, people who made bad decisions and people who simply got chewed up by circumstances. And the series refuses to treat their suffering as proof that they deserve it. The gambling itself starts feeling like a metaphor for simply existing under capitalism. Everyone is gambling all the time. Your money, your labor, your health, your future, your relationships, sometimes literally your life. The people at the bottom are encouraged to gamble because they’re desperate for a way out, while the people at the top can turn that desperation into entertainment and profit. And if you finally win? Congratulations. Here’s another game. That’s the part that really fucked me up. There’s this Sisyphus-like quality to Kaiji’s existence. He pushes the boulder up the hill again and again and again. Every victory feels like it should finally mean freedom, but somehow the blood sucking vampire called capitalism finds another way to send that fucking rock rolling back down. And yet the show doesn’t make me feel like struggling is pointless. Almost the opposite. There’s something profoundly human about Kaiji continuing anyway. He cries, screams, panics, fucks up, gets betrayed, loses everything, finds other people at the bottom, and pushes that goddamn boulder again. Maybe that’s why I came away loving him so much. He’s the champion of the losers. And unfortunately, a lot of us are losers in this soul crushing game. What an incredible fucking show. “The future is in our hands.”
- ReviewedBackroomsSeptember 10, 2026The Backrooms is interesting as hell. The entertainment from the movie depends on what you came for... Is it scary? Eh, not really. Is it interesting and full of ideas? Very much so. The reveal of the creature left me thinking: "That's it?" But the entire idea of the Backrooms is more unsettling than the creature itself. Watching it, I was never really scared of the movie but I know if EYE was personally in there, I'd be crying like a baby. haha But yeah, pretty good movie.
- ReviewedThriller: A Cruel PictureAugust 9, 2026Review varies on which version you watch. The original/uncut Swedish version, features full on penetration during the rape scenes when Frigga is older... But turns away and censors the final kill. The camera will cut away. You'd imagine with full penetration especially during such a horrible act, the vengeful kill will not hold back... But it does. While the US version, removes the full penetration, making the cut away from the final kill feel "okay". As a person who loves revenge films (when the revenge is worth the pain the character went through), I can't recommend Thriller: A Cruel Picture's original version to anyone who wants justice for Frigga (One Eye)
- ReviewedTojima Wants to Be a Kamen RiderMay 17, 2026It’s pretty looking, but it’s not really for me. It threw me off the main character is already unrealistically stronger than Kamen Rider… I mean he was fighting bears and doing above average human feats… I was hoping for someone I suppose realistically trying to be Kamen Rider. A better way to put it, I was hoping this was a “Kick-Ass” version of Kamen Rider, where we see the main character legitimately try to be that character, getting his ass kicked dealing with real criminals, still coming back to fight evil, eventually prevailing in true Kamen Rider spirit. I know many enjoy this show so I would still recommend it to some folks but this show just isn’t for me.
