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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