Category Archives: Week in Review

Winter 2025 – Week 12 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. With several of my house’s long-term streaming projects concluded, this week has seen us buried in kaiju features, as we storm through Godzilla’s sprawling cinematic canon. It’s been delightful seeing both the concept of a Godzilla film and the context of such films within Japan’s rapidly evolving society shift over the years, as the big guy transitions from an object of terror or warning of violent consequence to a beloved defender of earth and friend to the children. We’re basically watching a cinematic monster of the week series constructed across half a century, finding new things to appreciate in both the broad shifts and incremental adjustments of this titanic franchise. Let’s start with the big guy’s second appearance then, as we burn down this Week in Review!

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Winter 2025 – Week 11 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today my apartment is undergoing some impromptu spring cleaning owing to last week’s house fire, the second house fire we’ve suffered in roughly eighteen months. Fortunately the damage wasn’t nearly so severe this time, and our landlord is paying for the service, so hey: free apartment cleaning! You gotta take the victories where you can find them in this world of apparently perpetual house fires, and for me those victories tend to come in the form of unexpected new media treasures, films or series that totally catch me by surprise. Let’s pan for gold once more as we break down the Week in Review!

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Winter 2025 – Week 10 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. After a couple of weeks feeling under the weather, it appears both my health and the general temperature seem to be improving, leaving me prepped and ready to face a fresh new spring. It also seems to be a time for new beginnings as far as media projects are concerned; my house has recently completed Armored Trooper Votoms, Critical Role, Cobra Kai, and Ramayan, leaving my slate clean for some ambitious replacements. I’m currently still figuring out what classic anime I’d like to check out next, but in the meantime am also considering a journey through the Toei Godzilla films, having had such a good time recently with the productions of Ray Harryhausen. But for now, let us turn to the week’s screenings, and see what nutrients can be extracted from our latest film adventures. On to the Week in Review!

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Winter 2025 – Week 9 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week has seen me diving into Persona 3 Reload, which has unfortunately provoked a swift and deleterious effect on basically every other aspect of my life. There’s just something about Persona’s mixture of pokemon fusions and schedule management that tickles all the right parts of my brain; somewhat ironic that a life planning sim tends to overwhelm my ability to plan my own life, but I suppose it’s always easier to hit a button that says “do your chores” than to actually friggin’ do them. Anyway, mentally I am in the halls of Tartarus right now, but my film review buffer is as well-stocked as ever, so our weekly reflections may continue without incident. Let’s burn down some feature films!

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Winter 2025 – Week 8 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I’m pretty sure this goddamn snow-stuffed winter has inflicted me with a recent head cold, so please appreciate my suffering as I tirelessly work to supply you good people with more of my meandering opinions. This week saw me reaching the end of Black Myth: Wukong, which I frankly feel a little ashamed about even finishing; the game is a fundamentally misguided and altogether miserable experience, and I only really finished it because I still feel some regret about dropping Lies of P. I know the only way a bad game can actually get one over on you is by tempting you to play it longer than you’re having fun, but I nonetheless still possess a touch of senseless “gamer pride,” which compelled me to beat the endlessly aggravating, fundamentally anti-player experience that was Wukong. Fortunately, my week was otherwise furnished with a generous scattering of film features, so let us turn our minds to brighter topics as we burn down the Week in Review!

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Winter 2025 – Week 7 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am celebrating my birthday in style, by formatting reviews, writing up this here blurb, and maybe doing some laundry later. Hell yeah, no breaks on this party train. As far as general week-in-review business is concerned, I have spent the last week getting progressively more angry at Black Myth Wukong, which appears to have been designed by thirty independent developers who were barred from any mutual conversation. As a result, none of the game’s control mechanics, enemies, or environments successfully mesh with each other, which when combined with the game’s frequent outright glitches makes for… well, it’s not Hollow Knight, I’ll tell you that much. I’ll have to let you know next week if this journey to the west ends with me crushing the disk and chewing up its shards, but for now, let’s break down some films!

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Winter 2025 – Week 6 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. We’re now roughly halfway through the winter season, and I’m happy to report that I’ve actually been catching up on BanG Dream! Ave Mujica, having screened and written up its first four episodes over the last week or so. It’s certainly more of a fantastical melodrama than MyGO, but still exceedingly entertaining in its own way, pitting girls who need even more emotional guidance than Tomori or Soyo against bandmates who give even fewer shits than Anon or Raana. The results are as disastrous as you might expect, leaving me with a disorienting psychological crime scene to sort through. I’ve also of course made time for a scattering of variable film screenings, ranging from recent blockbusters to delightful mid-century adventures. Let’s break ‘em down!

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Winter 2025 – Week 5 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week saw me finally breaking ground on the current anime season, as I screened the first two episodes of MyGO followup Ave Mujica in quick succession. While the show is certainly more broad and melodramatic than its predecessor, it’s also extraordinarily entertaining, showing that MyGO’s writer/director team are just as confident with this sort of operatic theater as they are with MyGO’s quieter pleasures. We’ve also been munching through the Ramayan, and have at this point reached the big action-adventure core of the series, when Ram’s wife Sita is stolen and he must square off with the demons who’ve claimed her. It’s a pleasure as always to see such a formative, archetype-defining text in motion, and it’s serving as a fine compliment to our Armored Trooper Votoms excursions. But let’s forget all that business, for today I bring you a selection of fresh films, plucked directly from my towering film review buffer. Let’s break ‘em down!

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Winter 2025 – Week 4 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. With the winter season now solidly underway, we’re finally reaching the point where we can separate meaningful contenders from first-episode pan flashes, a process that so far seems to be indicating this is an entirely sequel-centric season. We’ve got 100 Girlfriends, Ave Mujica, and The Apothecary Diaries, the third of which I have at this point heard enough about from enough reliable sources that I’m actually getting curious. Of course, I’ve also still got plenty of Armored Trooper Votoms to get through, and have recently started the ‘87 TV adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayana, which my housemate first watched as a kid. So yeah, eclectic mixture of media at the moment, and I’m having a delightful time with all of it – including these fine film features below, which I have hand-selected for your latest Week in Review. Let’s get to it!

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Winter 2025 – Week 3 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. We’re still deep in the January doldrums at this point, but I’ve been keeping busy however I can, and it seems my tabletop associates are at last emerging from their hibernation and bellowing for treats. It’s significantly harder to set up DnD sessions now that we don’t share an apartment, but the spirit is willing even if the scheduling is weak. I’ve also been making good on my resolution to get back into traditional fiction this year, and have already written a short story that’d been bouncing around my head for months. Plus I’m still munching through the delightful Metaphor Refantazio, which is so good it’s actually becoming a bit of a problem in terms of getting to other projects. Nonetheless, my film viewings continue apace, and I’ve curated a fresh collection of reflections for you all to peruse at leisure. Let’s get to it!

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