Bald Move Pulp - Detective Pikachu (2019)

Novice Pokemon Trainer A.Ron is joined by S Rank Trainer Cecily to break down the action in Detective Pokemon. We were both surprised at how straightforward a kids film this was. To be fair, we weren’t expecting Deadpool out of a Ryan Reynolds’ starring Pokemon film, but parents looking to be thrown an adult bone over the heads of their children are probably going to be disappointed. Still, it’s relentlessly, almost threateningly cute, and the more into Pokemon you are the more you’ll appreciate the universe and background details they’re packing into the scene. 

Mailbag – May 2019

New feature! People send us cool stuff all the time, and we wanted to give thanks and show off said cool stuff. How do? A mailbag video! This month; decals from The Terror, Florence+The Machine / Fifth Element mashups, custom Game of Thrones mugs, and custom… dragonglass… daggers. Yeah, that’s right, we’re now ready to get all Arya on the Night King. If you want to send us something, our address is right here! 

Bald Move Pulp - Chernobyl – Episode 1 – 1:23:45

Chernobyl is already one of the most fascinating and relevant disaster movies I can think of, and we’re only one episode into it’s five episode run. “1:23:45” does a great job of introducing us to the men and women that will be affected by the nuclear power plant’s explosion, sets up the political dysfunction that will impede the increasingly desperate and heroic attempts to contain the environmental catastrophe, and visually and audibly highlight the dangerous, hellish conditions the rescue workers and plant technicians were forced to confront. Is the Chernobyl disaster a uniquely Soviet phenomenon? Could something like this happen in the West? And what lessons about a pervasive culture of lying and misinformation can we apply to our lives today? We hash out these questions and much more.