Recent content by Vegard Pompey

My favorite discovery of the year, that won't make my 2024 list because it came out last year. Mostly upbeat 70s-style hard rock/prog, but there's also a moody Angel Witch-y epic and a fantastic cover of Iron Maiden's Moonchild.

Once again you've offered up an extremely contrarian opinion with no real justification besides "everyone's wrong except me". It would be nice if you had a real argument for a change. Yes the season 3 payoff is fantastic, competes with the Sopranos for best TV finale of all time. It ends in...

Damn, what a ride. I was expecting the discovery of some glitch would enable them to get past the level 29 killscreen, but instead they did it by optimizing their capacity to push a button fast. Kind of hilarious how the game breaks down in the glitched levels with hard-to-see color palettes...

Suspected from the title it would be a long one but wasn't expecting feature length.

Don't apologize for failing to appease a bigot.

Voted Heaven's Damnation, Frozen and Shadows Over a Lost Kingdom. Not that I've heard any of them, but apparently I managed to pick the least popular songs by chance.

I love the deluxe edition, it's fucking enormous

Loved the new series, thinking of picking up the book just to read whatever nuances were left out of the adaptation. Need more Yabushige in my life.

I thought Villeneuve's second part was such a boringly literal adaptation that I felt like I had seen the whole movie before I actually saw it. Lynch's adaptation was corny, butchered by its producers and misunderstood its source material, but nothing in Villeneuve's version gave me the chills...

You do you but I wouldn't ignore anyone outright over a single rating (if I did I would have no country on ignore over his 3/5 rating for Seven Samurai.) I don't think his rating of Red Dawn boils down to political hand-wringing either since his review mentions a bunch of other jingoistic...

Mega Colossus, Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Grozov, Savage Oath, Writhen Hilt, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (tangentially metal but too good not to mention)

Josh Lewis is great, very knowledgeable film critic that also champions a ton of underappreciated trashy genre movies. Discovered some good stuff through his letterboxd reviews and his podcast Sleazoids. Haven't seen Civil War, from the reviews I've read it sounds like it's mostly just a road...

It's worth continuing, s3 owns. ...Then they boot the original showrunner, retool the show into a Morgan spinoff, and the quality falls off a cliff.