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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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Fall 2025 – Week 12 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. We’re really into the winter doldrums at this point, which I frankly at least prefer to the agonizing November period of knowing winter is right around the corner. Anticipation of a calamity tends to be more painful than the calamity itself; at this point, even though a mercilessly cold January is approaching, I can at least comfort myself with the assurance that the year’s shortest day is almost behind us. And yes, I really should have moved out of New England years ago if I hate winter this much, I am quite aware of that thank you very much. On the plus side, the cold has at least given me a perfect excuse to hole up and finish The Summer Hikaru Died, which puts me in fairly reasonable shape to reflect on the year in cartoons. And of course, there were film screenings aplenty, as we all did our best to tuck in against the hateful salvos of That Bastard Nature. Let’s run ‘em down!

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Fall 2025 – Week 11 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I’m still in end-of-year catch-up mode at this point, and am currently munching through the sunshine and cicada shells of The Summer Hikaru Died. I’m also looking to devour outstanding anime films from any era in order to furnish my year in review post, having found myself in the unique situation of doing so much writing in the preceding year that I’ve actually fallen behind on my film viewing. I checked out Inu-Oh last week and will likely finally get to The Colors Within next week, but feel free to let me know what other gaps in my education could use some addressing. In the meantime, let’s burn down the Week in Review!

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Fall 2025 – Week 10 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. We’re truly entering the holiday season now, which tends to be a period of profound self-recrimination to me personally, as I attempt to make up for missed family time and finish off a year’s worth of outstanding ambitions. But I’m trying to take it easy on myself this year, and it’s certainly helping that I’m about to pass the hundred page mark on my ongoing fantasy story. I’ve been writing dubious fantasy novels since middle school, and it feels incredibly validating to be back in that space and making steady progress, actually chasing my ambitions rather than admiring them from afar. I only sorta half-believed in this DnD writing to traditional fiction pipeline when I started off, and it sure is nice for something to turn out right for once. Anyway, enough navel-gazing for now, we’ve got some movies to break down. On to the week in review!

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Fall 2025 – Week 9 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I’ve been writing up a fuckin’ storm; getting ahead on bounties, pushing forward on my novel, and even tossing off an indulgent side quest for my DnD party (we’re doing The Phantom of the Opera and The Taming of the Shrew simultaneously, which will absolutely involve were-shrews). All this feels like a genuine breakthrough for me, as I’ve traditionally found it extremely hard to write in multiple modes at the same time – it’s hard to think in terms of criticism when writing quests, hard to plot in terms of novels when writing songs, etcetera. Now it feels more like I’ve reached that vaunted position where work in one field actually inspires work in others; I was basically stuck at one bar scene in my book for weeks, but fiddling with quests seemed to unlodge something essential for getting momentum back. And yes, the film screenings have continued, alongside copious munching through the Brennan Lee Mulligan extended universe. Let’s break down some movies!

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Fall 2025 – Week 8 in Review

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Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week has seen my house cleaning up various media odds and ends, as we finished off the two revival Slayers seasons, concluded season three of Dimension 20, and also checked out the last of the millennium era Godzilla films. This has left my slate open for munching through the year’s outstanding must-watch anime productions, and thus I’ve already started a group viewing of The Summer Hikaru Died, while polishing off the last of Shoushimin Series in my own time. My big blind spot is the year’s top anime films – both the Umetsu and Fujimoto films actually released this year, alongside last year’s Yamada film that at this point should be widely available. I’ll be sure to munch through those as soon as I can, but in the meantime, let’s break down a fresh grab bag of film selections!

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