J. King – Medium

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·Jun 7

Movie Review: Top Gun Maverick

Rating: 3 Stars — In my heavily biased opinion, the best scene of Top Gun Maverick is the opening scene. The beautiful riffs of Kenny Loggins’ biggest hit serenade a screen full of quick hard cuts where indistinguishable workers prepare fighter jets to sail into the sky off of an aircraft carrier. Tom Cruise…

Top Gun

4 min read

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·Feb 18

Game Review: Horizon Zero Dawn

A+ Combat and World Design is broken up by lacking characterization and overcooked open-world elements — ’Twas the night before Horizon Forbidden West that I finished its predecessor, Horizon Zero Dawn. Horizon had been lying dormant in my yet-to-be-downloaded games library for years (maybe?) and it wasn’t until a month ago that I decided to give it a whirl. I went in mostly blind. All I…

Horizon Zero Dawn

9 min read

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·Jan 4

Movie Review: The Last Duel

Rating: 2 and 1/2 Stars — There are three sides to every dispute: Two rivaling accounts and the truth. The Last Duel explores this notion that each person experiences a story through their own biased narrative, and it does so with careful nuance. …

Review

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·Jan 2

Movie Review: Spider-Man Far from Home

Rating: 2 and 1/2 Stars — Fresh off of watching Spider-Man: No Way Home, I popped in the disc for the middle film of the Marvel Spider-Man trilogy. There’s a mystique about Spider-Man: Homecoming that weighs on me while I’ve watched these two sequels. All the films have been inspired to a degree but there was…

Spider Man

3 min read

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·Dec 31, 2021

Movie Review: Spider-Man No Way Home

Rating: 2 and 1/2 Stars — Here we go, another blockbuster smash from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Scorcese doth protest. While I disagree with Scorcese’s interpretation of the definition of cinema, I do understand the value of his sentiment. Scorcese said it himself, this style of filmmaking and storytelling isn’t for him. Some people don’t like…

Review

4 min read

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·Dec 28, 2021

Movie Review: No Time To Die

Rating: 2 and 1/2 Stars — If Spectre was a Daniel Craig-led celebration of most things James Bond, No Time to Die is the drunk afterparty where the party guests overstay their welcome and knock over a few desks lamps. Bond films can track near the two-and-a-half-hour mark so No Time to Die isn’t significantly longer…

Review

4 min read

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·Oct 13, 2021

Netflix Review: Squid Game

Squid Game faces the challenges of conceptual dramas — Squid Game is a highly effective drama worthy of high praise. There are a lot of prestige television elements that are well-written and crafted. What immediately caught my attention was the sound design. The ominous tones do well to draw suspense. …

Squid Game

6 min read

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·Sep 14, 2021

Eli and Peyton’s Monday Night Football show is a broadcasting win for ESPN

Athletes and media companies have become more ubiquitous during the past decade, but it’s been Peyton Manning who has snuck onto the scene with relative ease. Peyton’s venture, Omaha Productions (classy name that), has been behind Peyton’s ESPN show, Peyton’s Places. The show lives on ESPN+ and has 31 episodes…

NFL

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Eli and Peyton’s Monday Night Football show is a broadcasting win for ESPN

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·Aug 19, 2021

The (Un)Official Yugioh! Shot Challenge

Take a shot every time… — I’ve always liked card games. Whether it be Texas Hold ’Em, Blackjack, War, Uno, Phase 10, Go Fish, and even the dueling games like Magic The Gathering and Yugioh. While I did watch Yugioh as a kid, it was only sporadically. When I saw the series can be viewed in…

Yugioh

3 min read

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·Aug 13, 2021

Tampa Bay Rowdies 2021 Midseason Report

How each position group is fairing so far — For the defending Eastern Conference champions, the Rowdies were well on their way to making the USL look ripe for a repeat. The Rowdies ripped off 5 straight wins to start their campaign and only lost twice in their first 10 matches. After their tenth match, the Rowdies ran into…

Rowdies

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