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Winter 2026 – Week 9 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re striding forth boldly into March, though sadly, here in New England that still means it’s the middle of winter. Though I seem to recall the existence of spring and fall from my childhood, lately it’s felt like there’s only two seasons around here: the blessed summer of May through October, and the hateful winter of November through April. Fortunately, we’ve still got plenty of stories to tide us through the cold, and I’m personally excited to be cracking the seal on a whole slate of new features. Having finished Fallout, Moribito, and the delightfully soapy Sandokan, we’re now returning to the Tomino well with Aura Battler Dunbine, while also looking forward to the upcoming second season of One Piece’s live-action adaptation. I’m frankly eager to get back to Dunbine right this minute, but first, let’s run down the week in film!

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Winter 2026 – Week 8 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week a fresh carpet of snow has descended to terrorize my poor neighborhood, meaning I’ve had plenty of time to stay inside and screen fresh projects. We completed the second season of the Fallout adaptation, which continued to nail the aesthetics and rightfully bleak philosophy of the games, while apparently receiving enough of a budget boost to include dramatic full-scale clashes of New Vegas’ various factions. I thought Mr. House’s preoccupation with an ultimate “man behind the curtain” felt more about providing plot hooks and incentive for a third season than furnishing the show’s main themes, but was otherwise a fan, particularly since this season actually upped the Walton Goggins quotient significantly. That aside, we’ve of course been plowing through our regular allotment of feature films, so let’s get down to the Week in Review!

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Winter 2026 – Week 7 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week has seen my house sweeping up the loose cobwebs of various outstanding series, as we finished our group watch of Frieren’s first season, and also continued to munch through the second season of Fallout. It feels morbidly validating for Fallout to be telling this story at this particular moment in time; I feel like “corporations blew up the world on purpose for quarterly profits” would feel a little far-fetched in most eras, but in truth might actually be understating the case as we currently face it. We’ve also been keeping up with the current season of Critical Role, which continues to astound me with its richness of worldbuilding and complexity of drama. Brennan Lee Mulligan is basically going for “we’re going to construct one of the enduring fantasy epics as a collective roleplay experience,” and so far has actually been following through on that preposterous proposal. I’m eager to see how the Seekers’ first arc concludes, but for now, let’s move on to the week in film!

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Winter 2026 – Week 6 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I am officially a year older, a fact I am attempting to accept with whatever grace an old fogie like me can muster. It’s an odd thing to have moved so fully beyond mass culture’s sphere of interest, but it turns out life does continue after the halcyon days generally featured in anime, and thus we all gotta make the most of it. A nice meal, hanging out with friends, watching a fucked-up movie; in my experience, the greatest joys in life are not far out of reach, just so long as we keep recommitting to seeking them. And personally, sharing my errant thoughts on art is absolutely one of the things that keeps me putting one foot in front of the other, certain that tomorrow will be a new day with its own unexpected joys. So thank you all for reading my ramblings, and I promise to keep digging at the wonders of anime, cinema, and whatever else crosses my path. Now let’s check out some films!

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Wicked

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we’re embarking on a somewhat unusual journey, as we dawdle our way through the 2024 film Wicked, adapted from the 2003 stage musical of the same name, which was itself adapted from Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel. I’ve never seen the play or read the novel, but from what I understand, it catalogues the younger days of The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West, extrapolating an era spent at some sort of magical academy alongside Glinda the Good Witch.

Directed by John M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), the film stars Cynthia Erivo as our wicked witch Elphaba, and musical star Ariana Grande as the good witch Glinda. And that’s… basically everything I know about this film, beyond some general critical consternation regarding its staging and color design. I am a fan of musical theater, but I often find actual musicals to be a bit broad in their writing, rather than the incisive narrative song-cycles you can find on a good concept album. Either way, I’m eager to patch up this clear gap in my cultural knowledge, so let’s get on with the show!

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Winter 2026 – Week 5 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week has seen us brave winter’s fury and emerge victorious, after having shoveled roughly eight tons of snow from my apartment’s driveway. I’m still sniffling, coughing, and generally enduring the personal indignities of nature’s most hateful season, but it appears there may well be a light at the end of the tunnel.

That aside, this has mostly been a week of tidying up outstanding projects. My house at last finished Ranking of Kings after initially losing momentum early in its second season, and also munched through Fantasy High’s Junior Year, leaving us with just one season of Intrepid Heroes adventures to watch through. Fortunately, the great drought of Critical Role’s end-of-year vacation has ended, leading us into the distinct pleasure of Mercer versus Mulligan as we join up with the second of Campaign Four’s three separate tables. We’ve also just cracked the seal on Fallout’s second season, which has in turn prompted fresh stabs at Fallout 4’s inconsistent pleasures. It frankly boggles the mind that Bethesda has spent a straight-up decade making games nobody wanted when the next Elder Scrolls is sitting right there, but I’m doing my best to find joy in blasting mudcrabs while we wait. Oh, and movies! Yes, let’s talk about some movies.

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Winter 2026 – Week 4 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. My house is currently buried under the biggest snowfall we’ve received in half a decade, making travel anywhere beyond a five hundred yard perimeter basically impossible. Fortunately, that only gives me all the more incentive to sit here and watch movies, thereby passing all those savings on to YOU, my beloved readers. And we’ve certainly been doing plenty of that, alongside variable anime and TUBI screenings. We actually just polished off the last season of My Hero Academia, which was forced to compete for screentime with “The Pirates of Dark Water,” an early ‘90s Hanna-Barbera relic that turned out to be an unexpected delight. I particularly appreciated how its characters just sorta kept integrating more of their own world’s lingo in the place of any child-unfriendly swear words, resulting in a production whose final episodes involved more exclamations of “chungo-lungo!” and “noi jitat!” than actual words. Anyway, that’s all on TUBI if you’re curious, but in the meantime, let’s run down some films!

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Winter 2026 – Week 3 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It’s been an anxious yet oddly encouraging week on the world stage, as our mad king’s ravings appear to have inspired resistance from both the brave people of Minnesota and from Europe at large. It’s been decades since the demonic Karl Rove declared us to be living in the “post-truth” era, and it seems like for Trump’s true supporters, there is no longer any possibility of drawing them back to reality. What comes next will either be an empire’s death rattle or the total deconstruction of the American right; anything short of the second will surely only hasten the first.

Apocalyptic tidings aside, my house has continued with its usual screenings, as we munched through the first half of Dragon Ball Daima and checked out some films on the side. Daima’s been fun on the whole; it’s largely holding true to a more original Dragon Ball-like tone, though I’m a little disappointed it’s so swiftly returned to the Super Saiyan-level combat that basically outscales any sort of cunning or choreography. As for the films, well, that’s what we’re here for – let’s break ‘em down in the Week in Review!

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Winter 2026 – Week 2 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week my house finished our watch-through of Hayao Miyazaki’s Future Boy Conan, which unsurprisingly proved a delight from start to finish. It’s been nice getting back into just watching whatever strikes my fancy after scrambling for end-of-year screenings; Conan’s been on my list for far too long, and I’m planning to follow it up with Moribito, another long-awaited production. Aside from that, my house’s terrible experiences with Expedition 33 and inability to survive even a single day in Nightreign has led us to an old, reliable favorite: Final Fantasy X, which I actually haven’t played since way back in high school. Hanging out with Tidus and the gang has at last scratched our RPG itch, alongside giving me something to distract myself while I wait through the last, interminable week of Critical Role’s holiday break. I think that pretty much covers all the extraneous media I’ve been consuming, so let’s hone in on some films as we burn down the Week in Review!

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Winter 2026 – Week 1 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to hooooly shit it’s 2026. That is too large of a number, too late of a year. That’s far enough into the 21st century that I can’t actually blame The Youth for categorizing people as “from the last century,” even if such framing makes my bones creak. I’m fuckin’ old, you guys; I’m now “slept on my knee wrong and thus suffered a month of agony” old, and all that is new is strange and terrifying to me. Even the fact that I’m typing this rather than announcing it into my phone’s camera marks me as an Old Person; the written word has lost the war, but I’ll be fighting this fruitless battle until my beard descends into a cozy grey cocoon, and I’ve gained the solemnity of age to mumble indistinctly about “the war” and “back in my day” and other comforting mantras of obsolescence. But that is fortunately still a great number of movie screenings from now, and in the meantime, I’ve got plenty of thoughts on my latest viewings. Let’s get to it!

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