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2023 Reviews in Review
I normally don’t write seasonal posts, but seeing as I’ve published a lot of reviews this year compared to my usual, I thought I’d put out a summary…
Year in Review 2023
A new year, a new reflection on the past year’s events. These posts have become somewhat therapeutic over the past few years, helping me look back at the…
2023 Year in Review
Books Book that made me nod my head again and again and also left me deeply unsettled: Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger Best book about scary caves: The Luminous Dead…
Fall 2023 Anime in Review
Introduction This season was pretty incredible. I don’t think that needs to have been said, but as a post that recaps the entire previous season, I did have…
Winter 2023 Anime in Review
I don’t have a lot to say about the previous season. I keep thinking about it and thinking about it and while there are shows that I liked…
Spring 2023 Anime In Review
This season was fantastic, man. Great sequels and continuations of shows that I already liked while also seeing newer properties and originals appear too. While I have complained…
2023 Gunpla Year In Review
This guide marks a major milestone for Gunpla 101: our TENTH year-in-review post in a row! Gunpla 101 has been around for an entire decade! John and I…
Summer 2023 Anime In Review
Introduction Here we are with some conclusions to a good season. I say that because there was a lot of stuff that I really enjoyed. Really had to…
Winter 2023 – Week 4 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’ve got a touch of sound and fury for you all, as the week’s screenings included a film…
Fall 2023 – Week 11 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am suffering under the weight of an illness that I’m hoping against hope isn’t COVID, and can…
Spring 2023 – Week 2 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time! Today I am typing this up in my running shorts, as spring has finally decided to grace us with…
Spring 2023 – Week 9 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. While most of our weekly screenings aren’t really driven by any sort of guiding theme, one of my housemate’s…
Winter 2023 – Week 13 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’ve got a motley collection of films for you all, ranging from pulpy scifi spectacles to a…
Winter 2023 – Week 1 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Somehow a new year is upon us, and I hope you’re all doing your best to reckon with that…
Spring 2023 – Week 5 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am in an exceedingly good mood, as not only will I be hosting a session of…
Summer 2023 – Week 1 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m doing my best to beat this grotesque summer humidity, while also recovering from the fatigue of running…
Summer 2023 – Week 9 in Review
Hello friends, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I am sorry to report that this has been another tough week on the home front, as our core…
Winter 2023 – Week 11 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I hope you’re all doing well and acting suitably wary on this Ides of March, whether you’ve attracted the…
Spring 2023 – Week 12 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It is currently a muggy, clouded, altogether inhospitable day out, but I refuse to let nature’s frankly childish behavior…
Fall 2023 – Week 6 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am chronicling my weekly exploits from a sun-drenched seat in a brand new apartment, having spent the…
Summer 2023 – Week 2 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I write to you from temporary lodgings, owing to the fact that my goddamn apartment caught fire some…
Summer 2023 – Week 10 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. The warm days of summer are currently ceding to chill winds and autumn leaves, which is normally a time…
Fall 2023 – Week 7 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Having now gotten fully settled into my new accommodations, I am happy to report that life indeed finds a…
Fall 2023 – Week 5 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I’ve currently got an army of fire ants performing parade drills across my skull, as the approach of apartment…
Summer 2023 – Week 13 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I’ve returned to full apartment hunting mode, having emerged from a variety of familial obligations to find…
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Winter 2023 – Week 12 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am at last feeling optimistic about spring’s theoretically imminent arrival; in fact, I’m actually sitting here typing…
Spring 2023 – Week 3 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I write to you from the midst of a spring cleaning embodying mind, body, and home, as dusting…
Fall 2023 – Week 1 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. With my viewing party’s ambitious project to watch our adolescent Big Three now successfully topped off with…
Spring 2023 – Week 13 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Though we’re already near the end of June, this is technically the final week of the spring anime season,…
Fall 2023 – Week 10 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I’ve been continuing my efforts to catch up on all of the year’s outstanding, er, outstanding anime,…
Winter 2023 – Week 9 in Review
Hey folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. I hope you’re all staying warm through these interminable winter days, and am happy to report I’ve got…
Review: Faces in the Crowd (2023)
Faces in the Crowd 暴风 China, 2023, colour, 2.35:1, 101 mins. Director: Chen Jiashang 陈嘉上 [Gordon Chan]. Rating: 5/10. Wang Qianyuan’s playing elevates this standard KMT vs CCP…
Spring 2023 – Week 1 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week we’re greeting the spring anime season, and wouldn’t you know it, there’s actually a couple shows I’m…
Fall 2023 – Week 8 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week saw my viewing party finishing off some key TV series in addition to our film viewings, as…
Fall 2023 – Week 12 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m happy to report that I’ve mostly shaken off the illness of last week, which indeed proved to…
Winter 2023 – Week 6 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. We’re somehow halfway through the winter season at this point, meaning airing shows have now produced a meal-worthy chunk…
Summer 2023 – Week 8 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It’s been another hectic week on my end, as we approached and marched by the due date for moving…
Summer 2023 – Week 3 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I didn’t really plan on it, but based on what we watched, it turns out this week features a…
Summer 2023 – Week 6 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I write to you from the midst of a furious thunderstorm, which I’m hoping will at some point…
Summer 2023 – Week 12 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week a project my housemates idly began years ago neared its conclusion, as we approached the very last…
Winter 2023 – Week 5 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. How are you all holding up as we march into February? It’s been a busy week on my end,…
Summer 2023 – Week 4 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Things are still pretty hectic on my end, as my housemates and I are still cooped up in temporary…
Summer 2023 – Week 5 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week we took part in what has unexpectedly become the cinematic event of the summer, taking in both…
Spring 2023 – Week 8 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week has seen me and my housemates positively gorging on Tears of the Kingdom, losing ourselves in the…
Fall 2023 – Week 3 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week saw me once again consumed by the seemingly impossible task of finding an affordable apartment, while generally…
Winter 2023 – Week 3 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’ve got a diverse selection of films for you all, including a pair of Disney features prompted by…
Fall 2023 – Week 9 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. With my new apartment now more or less settling into a peaceful routine, all of the humbler creatures within…
Spring 2023 – Week 10 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we enter into that strange period of the annual anime cycle where we’re pushing mid-June, yet still working…
Spring 2023 – Week 7 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I come to you after hours of scribbling about movies, having been forced by article scheduling to skip…
Summer 2023 – Week 11 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. This has been a hectic week on my end, with a family wedding consuming my general film-screening time,…