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Author: Adam Buckley

Film Ranking Reviews 

All Mission: Impossible Movies Ranked

June 15, 2025 Adam Buckley Action, film, Mission Impossible, movies, Ranking, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise

For nearly 30 years, Tom Cruise has led what is quite possibly the biggest and best action movie franchise in

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Film Reviews 

Why Thunderbolts* Works

May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 Adam Buckley film, marvel, mcu, movies

Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* came out on May 2nd, and the world has never been the same since. It’s been a

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Essays Film Music 

Ode to the TikTok Edit

April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 Adam Buckley film, Internet, music, TikTok

There’s so much stuff on the Internet that the average user is drowned in “content.” Between AI-generated slop clogging the

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Essays TV 

Superheroes, Politics, and Daredevil: Born Again

March 7, 2025March 8, 2025 Adam Buckley Analysis, essay, marvel, Marvel Comics, TV, TV personal essay

On March 4th, the first two episodes of the much-anticipated revival of Marvel’s Daredevil, Daredevil: Born Again, premiered on Disney+,

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Music TV 

Top 5 Performances at the 2025 Grammys

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 Adam Buckley Awards, Grammys, Musical

2024 was an amazing year for music—obviously. If you weren’t living under a rock, you’d know that last year was

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Books Essays Reviews 

Ultimate Spider-Man: One Year Later

January 29, 2025 Adam Buckley marvel, Marvel Comics, Retrospective, Review, Spider-Man

Nearly one year ago, I wrote about the debut issue of Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s Ultimate Spider-Man, the flagship

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Animation Reviews TV 

Still Got It: Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2 Review

January 20, 2025 Adam Buckley adaptation, Animation, gaming, Netflix

So there’s this show you might’ve heard of. It’s a beautifully animated Netflix original series that’s based on a pretty

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Essays Games 

A Lukewarm Defense of The Game Awards

December 11, 2024 Adam Buckley Award shows, Awards, Games, Year-end awards

You ever meet somebody who doesn’t do number scores? Like, you see a movie together and you ask them to

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Games 

Marvel Rivals: The Live-Service Savior

December 9, 2024December 10, 2024 Adam Buckley Games, marvel, Marvel Comics, Multiplayer, Superheroes

Marvel Rivals feels too good to be true. The free-to-play, third-person team shooter starring Marvel superheroes might look like every

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Essays Film Reviews 

“It’s Everything You Wanted”: Analyzing The Penguin’s Finale

November 13, 2024 Adam Buckley crimeshow, media analysis, superhero, TV, TV personal essay

It’s hard to articulate why The Penguin works. On the surface, it’s simply a solid crime drama starring a classic

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Essays Games Reviews 

Alan Wake 2 “The Lake House”, The Latest Entry in Gaming’s First Shared Universe

October 29, 2024October 30, 2024 Adam Buckley Analysis, horror, Sci-Fi, Survival-horror, video games

This October, fans of Alan Wake 2 (2023), the mind-bending, supernatural survival-horror epic, get to return to Cauldron Lake in

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Books 

You Should Be Reading Absolute Batman

October 15, 2024October 19, 2024 Adam Buckley Batman, comics, DC, superhero, Superhero Comics

What happens to Batman when you take away his greatest advantage? Is that his intelligence? His sheer force of will?

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Film 

The World’s Greatest Paranormal Investigator Returns in Hellboy: The Crooked Man

October 11, 2024 Adam Buckley Comic Books, film review, horror, horror movies

There’s a devil down south, and it’s not the one you think. Comic book hero Hellboy (Jack Kesy) returns to

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Reviews TV 

Leave Your Umbrella Guns at the Door: The Penguin Episode 1 Review

September 25, 2024November 13, 2024 Adam Buckley DC, Superheros, TV, TV Adaptations, TV Review

Can a gangster really be a hero? In a city like Gotham, anything’s possible. Last Thursday, the first episode of

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Reviews TV 

House of the Dragon Season 2 Review

September 9, 2024September 10, 2024 Adam Buckley fantasy, Game of Thrones, HBO, TV, TV Review

I’ll admit it: I didn’t watch Game of Thrones. In fact, I’m reading the books so I can be annoying

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Books Essays Reviews TV 

Magneto was Right: The X-Men vs The Status Quo

April 18, 2024 Adam Buckley Animation, essay, Marvel Comics, Review, Superheroes

“I’m glad to be proven wrong.”   That’s what I said to my sister as we finished the first episode

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Essays Reviews TV 

The Ones Who Live: The Walking Dead’s Return From The Grave

April 5, 2024April 5, 2024 Adam Buckley The Walking Dead, TV, TV Adaptations

  SPOILERS for: The Walking Dead and The Ones Who Live   The Ones Who Live, a 6-episode miniseries follow-up

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Essays Film Reviews 

All X-Men Movies Ranked

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Adam Buckley mcu, movies, Ranking, Superheroes, X-Men

To me, my X-Fans! The beloved 90’s animation featuring Marvel’s merry mutants returned to us on March 20th with Disney+’s

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Essays TV 

I Want To Believe in the X-Files Reboot

March 6, 2024March 6, 2024 Adam Buckley 90's, crimeshow, reboot, TV, X-Files

Whether or not you’ve seen an episode of The X-Files, you’ve felt its impact. Investigation duos with palpable romantic chemistry,

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TV 

I’m Praying for Daredevil: Born Again

February 11, 2024February 12, 2024 Adam Buckley Disney+, marvel, mcu, Superheroes, TV

Over the past few days, social media has been ablaze with leaks and speculation about Daredevil: Born Again, the much-anticipated

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Books Essays Reviews 

You Should Be Reading Ultimate Spider-Man: A Review and Analysis

February 2, 2024 Adam Buckley marvel, Marvel Comics, reviews

If you’re a Spider-Man fan, you should be at your local comic book store. Ultimate Spider-Man, by writer Jonathan Hickman

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Essays Film Reviews 

Aquaman and the Lost Universe

January 8, 2024February 2, 2024 Adam Buckley DC, DCEU, movies, reviews, Superheroes

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has finally come to the silver screen this holiday season, and with its arrival comes

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Essays Games Reviews 

Why Final Fantasy 16 Is My Game Of The Year

December 10, 2023December 10, 2023 Adam Buckley Action-Adventure Game, Analysis, anime, Final Fantasy, gaming, JRPG

(SPOILERS AHEAD for Final Fantasy 16)   “I have killed the monster…and become an outlaw.”   These words are the

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Books Essays 

I Believe In Jonathan Hickman: Superheroes vs The Status Quo

November 4, 2023November 4, 2023 Adam Buckley comics, Sci-Fi, Superheroes

This past Wednesday, writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Stefano Caselli have come out swinging with their Marvel one-shot Ultimate Universe

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