Monthly Media Recap - March 2025

 This year, we are the April Fool's...and the January, February, March...

 

Anyway, on to the stuff I watched last month. I won't be using any Amazon affiliate links for the foreseeable future.

 

Series

 

Dexter: New Blood (Paramount+)

We got Paramount to check out the new Dexter prequel series because we loved the original. Despite that, we never watched the sequel series and decided to knock it out before the prequel. I heard a lot of not good things about this season but really enjoyed it. I suspect people didn't like the way it ended but I think it was well done.

Movies 

 

Becky (2020, Paramount+)

Imagine Home Alone but Kevin is a teenage girl that could give Rambo a run for his money and instead of the Wet Bandits, you've got a gang of neo-Nazis lead by Kevin James. Did I mention the horror movie-level violence? The plot behind why everything is happening could be better but I was having so much fun watching Becky murdelize people, I didn't really care.

 

Rating: 6/10

Wrath of Becky (2023, Paramount+)

It's three years later and Becky's back! This time she's dealing with the Seann William Scott-led Noble Men (ie: Proud Boys) that took her dog. Did these guys not watch John Wick? This one's got a bit more dark humor to it and I love it for that. Watching Becky take these idiots down in fun, gruesome ways is just a joy to watch. Really hoping they follow through on a sequel. 

 

Rating: 7/10

 

Battleship (2012, Prime)

The best thing I can say about this is that it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. Don't get me wrong, the acting and dialog are bad more often than not. The aliens' motivation is lacking. The effects are decent and the whole thing feels like it was done by Wish Michael Bay (I wouldn't say it's Temu bad). Despite all this, they managed to shoe horn in having to fire shots at ships using a grid-based system and peg-like bombs embedding themselves in the ships so kudos on that!

 

Rating: 5/10, I can see it being someone's guilty pleasure...just not mine 

 

 

Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016, Netflix)

The first one was pretty middle of the road but now that I know who Mike Flanagan is, I gave this a spin. Not surprisingly, it was really well done. This is how you do an effective PG-13 horror movie. What it lacks in gore it more than makes up for in atmosphere and actually being invested in the characters. The young girl gives a great performance and imagine my shock when I looked her up and found out she grew up to be Becky (which I had watched before this)! And when was the last time you saw Henry Thomas in something?

 

Rating: 8/10

 

Venom: The Last Dance (2024, Netflix)

Sometimes, having that completionist gene works against you. I didn't have any interest in this but since I saw the first two, I felt I needed to finish the trilogy. Maybe...maybe if I wasn't familiar with the comics I would have enjoyed this as a weird sci-fi movie. It's really hard to see this as its own separate thing. It feels like they cranked up the buddy cop-ness and bad jokes to a induce eye strain from them rolling so much. And they way overdid the schmaltz at the end. I guess they wanted you to feel something?

 

Rating: 5/10

 

Kraven the Hunter (2024, Netflix)

On the other hand, I don't know a whole lot about Kraven but anti-hero isn't what comes to mind with him. But I guess if you can't fight Spider-Man, you have to be the better of the bad guys. Definitely some spotty effects work here and there and they probably could have cut 20-30 minutes. At the end of it all, I thought it was a good enough action movie. 

 

Rating: 5.5/10

 

 

Death Rink (2021, Tubi)

If only I watched the trailer first! This definitely falls in with the other low budget Tubi flicks that I will likely forget about in a month. But hey, they made a movie and got it out there. Everyone has to start somewhere, right? It's more than I've done.

 

Rating: 2/10 

This Month

New: 7   Rewatch: 0

Year to Date

New: 22   Rewatch: 1