Movies and TV Reviews – Phenixx Gaming

Love Hurts (Movie) Review

Matthew Lomas — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:00:56 +0000

Valentine’s Day, like many other holidays, always brings about a lot of interesting films. While there aren’t a lot of traditional love stories that popped up, there is one that I found attractive called Love Hurts. Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose headline this unexpected romantic action comedy that involves mobsters, hitmen, and a few gorgeous houses to call home! Ke Huy Quan plays Marvin…

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Eureka “Many Happy Returns” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:00:12 +0000

That’s a walking red flag, and I’m sticking by that no matter what. Directed by Jefery Levy, “Many Happy Returns” is the first of his two outings as director; the second being in episode 7, “Blink.” Written by show creators Cosby and Paglia, I don’t think I have anything to add that I said last week (about four months ago) when I wrote about episode 1, “Pilot.” Both are fairly under the radar…

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Companion (Movie) Review

Matthew Lomas — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:00:07 +0000

When the first teaser trailer for Companion dropped, I was intrigued and disturbed by the direction that it seemed to be taking. Is witchcraft at play here? Is it a cult-like situation? What could compel someone to stay still while their hand was burning? Why was this man so determined to hurt this woman? These questions swirled in my mind as I entered the theater to see Companion.

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Eureka “Pilot” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:00:01 +0000

The quote at the start of EUReKA (as it is stylized) goes thusly, “A little Knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” For Colin Ferguson’s Sheriff Carter, that’s pretty true. Directed by Peter O’Fallon, it is difficult to say O’Fallon is known for much. He directed some episodes of Pushing Daisies, as well as writing and co-creating the Jim Jefferies-led comedy, Legit. The same can be said for…

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Lower Decks “The New Next Generation” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:00:32 +0000

I was wrong about Ma’ah’s story wrapping up in “A Farewell to Farms,” and for what it is (so far), “The New Next Generation” was the perfect ending to Lower Decks. Written by Mike McMahan, everyone’s top 2 candidate for a McMahan/McMahon, the showrunner wraps up the series the only way he knows how. With Direction coming from the fantastic Megan Lloyd while story editors May Darmon…

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Lower Decks “Fissure Quest” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:00:01 +0000

The scream I scrumpt for the gays was so long and high pitched I’m sure even the Colonel would get the all-dog alert. Written by executive story editor and writer of Bless the Harts (a King of the Hill-wannabe), Lauren McGuire writes her only episode of Lower Decks. McGuire previously worked on TBS “comedy” dross, Wrecked. The only reason I opened with the writer this week is because Brandon…

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Doctor Who “Joy to the World” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:00:26 +0000

For some reason, I thought Joel Fry had already been in an episode of Doctor Who. Now I’m right. Directed by Alex Pillai, Pillai is probably best known for that Sabrina everyone was talking about, and I’m not talking about Melissa Joan Hart. He’s also known for a small show that stars someone you might have heard of called Nicola Coughlan, that of course being Netflix’s lady porn, Bridgerton.

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Nosferatu (Movie) Review

Matthew Lomas — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:00:28 +0000

If there is one word to describe Nosferatu it would be weird. Good weird, but weird nonetheless. At the end of seeing this film, my friend and I looked at each other and questioned what we had just watched. It had been hyped so much that I wondered if we had been disillusioned into what to expect. Hence, similar to my recent Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review, I have taken quite a bit of time to digest…

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Movie) Review

Matthew Lomas — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:00:13 +0000

Of all the movies that I have written reviews for, this is the first one in quite a bit that caused me to think about it for a long time. The War of the Rohirrim review also took a bit, but that was more due to scheduling decisions than my thought process. It is personally baffling why it has taken me this long to get these words down considering that this film is not all that deep.

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Terminator Zero (TV Series) Review

Edward Harding — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:00:27 +0000

I had originally meant to review this show on release earlier in 2024, but it wasn’t meant to be. I didn’t get around to watching the series until a few weeks ago. I’ll admit I’m not the most well-educated on the Terminator franchise as of yet, I’ve not seen all the films but the first two I enjoy quite a bit. As action films go, the series is certainly ambitious, handles many powerful themes…

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