Category: Khalil
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Khalil’s Top 10 New Streaming TV Shows Of 2021
As we close out year two of the pandemic, some of us have gotten the jab (more of us should) and braved outside once again. However, there still are plenty of reasons to stay inside to get some great entertainment and storytelling for us by way of watching what’s new on TV as once again…
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Review: ‘Cobra Kai Season 4’
Johnny And Daniel Team Up To Take On Cobra Kai For Dominance In The Valley
Once again, I have to pinch myself while watching Cobra Kai and say, “this show has no business and shouldn’t be so damn good!!” A TV show based on The Karate Kid franchise, and in which the protagonist is the “villain” from the original movie should NOT work on any level, but somehow Cobra Kai…
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Review: ‘VOIR’
The David Fincher Produced Docuseries Helps Explore Our Love of Cinema Via Visual Essays
If you’re even passively browsing Punch Drunk Critics for this review, you have to at the bare minimum have an appreciation of movies and television. After all, we are called “Punch Drunk Critics” for our own love of cinema. There’s something about the movies that allow us as a society to simply put aside whatever…
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Review: ‘True Story’
Netflix’s Newest Thriller Has Kevin Hart “Breaking Bad” In a Very Meta Way
It’s clear that Kevin Hart is going through a change in his career. No longer wanting to be the funny sidekick he’s most famous for, he’s definitely been branching out and stepping into new territories with the roles that he chooses. Earlier this year he stepped into dramatic territory portraying a single dad taking care…
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Review: ‘Cowboy Bebop’
Netflix’s Live Action Remake of the Classic Anime Hits Some of the Right Notes
Adapting from one medium to another is always a risky endeavor. Often what works on a comic/video game/cartoon might not always translate well to your TV sets or the big screen. Sometimes, the filmmakers have to dumb it down for a general audience (looking at you The Shining: yeah, I said it!), pissing off the…
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Review: ‘Marvel’s Hit-Monkey’
Hulu Breathes Life Into Marvel’s Bizarre Simian Assassin
Once upon a time, Marvel Television (which yes, is different from Marvel Studios which makes the movies) attempted to replicate the shared universe success from the MCU movies by having a series of animated shows based on various obscure Marvel characters. Such characters like Tigra & Dazzler, Howard The Duck, M.O.D.O.K., and Hit-Monkey were to…
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Review: ‘Dangerous’
Scott Eastwood Is a Reformed Ex-Con Sociopath Caught In A Siege
On paper a film like Dangerous has potential. A sociopath who can kill at will has been released from prison and engages in therapy to try and to reform his life and not cause any trouble. Unfortunately for him, his brother mysteriously dies. As he goes to his brother’s funeral taking place at a remote…
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Review: ‘Marionette’
A ‘Sixth Sense’-esque Psychological Thriller That Gets Delightfully Weird In A Great Way
There could be a few comparisons between Marionette and The Sixth Sense. Both films deal with a psychologist with their own issues in regards to their past and trauma with their own family life. Both films also have the psychologist have to treat a creepy kid who seems to have some otherworldly abilities in the…
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Review: ‘Snakehead’
Shuya Chang And Sung Kang Shine As Smugglers In The Venomous World Of Human Trafficking
While we here in the States tend to think of illegal immigration specific to those coming from our Southern border (especially over the Trump years), there’s a vast underground industry that is dedicated to bringing people searching for a better life into America that expands beyond just those that Fox News tries to scare us…
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Review: ‘Invasion’
Apple’s Globe-Hopping Alien Invasion Series Is Melodramatic And Grand In Scope
Apple TV+ has been on quite a roll. While not having the quantity of the other streamers, they make up for in quality as almost all of their Original Series have been absolute hits. I mean if you watched the Emmys, you know how much Ted Lasso is a force of nature. Another bonus from…