Movie Reviews5.2/10
Insidious: Chapter 3 Repeats the Formula Without Adding Anything New
A prequel that repeats old horrors instead of inventing new ones, competent yet hollow.
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‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Recap: What to Remember Before Season 2
Recap of Outlander: Blood of My Blood finale, setting up Season 2's return. A tale of stones, betrayal, and doomed lovers.
Movie Reviews2.9/10
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans Review: A Prequel That Fills in a Timeline and Nothing More
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) explains the vampire-Lycan war no one asked about, and does it badly. A 92-minute prequel that adds nothing.
Movie Reviews5.4/10
The Purge Prequel Trades Scares for Backstory, and the Series Suffers
Review of The First Purge (2018): the prequel that explains the Purge's origins but loses the franchise's pulp energy and political bite.
Movie Reviews6.6/10
‘Wonka’ Plays It Safe, and That’s Exactly the Problem
Wonka review: Timothée Chalamet plays a young chocolatier in Paul King's 117-minute prequel, with Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa. Score: 6.6/10.
Movie Reviews4.4/10
Ralph Fiennes Leads a Franchise Prequel That Turns Its Founding Myth Into a Slog
The King's Man review: Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman prequel wastes Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton and Rhys Ifans on a confused World War I history lesson. 4.4/10.
Movie Reviews6.2/10
Annabelle: Creation Review: The Prequel That Makes the Doll Scary Again
Annabelle: Creation review: the Conjuring prequel that made the doll scary again, with a demon, a dollmaker and six orphans in a locked house.
TV Reviews4.5/10
Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin: Seven Warriors, Four Episodes, One Thin Quest
Netflix's The Witcher: Blood Origin, a four-episode prequel set 1,200 years before Geralt, fails to carry seven warriors and a fallen elven empire.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Serious Sam 4’s alien invasion has already won before you fire a shot
Serious Sam 4 review: Croteam's prequel sends Sam against a winning invasion with a huge arsenal, a capped skill tree, and an ending that whiffs.
TV Reviews7.5/10
Star Trek: Enterprise Review: A Strong Premise, Unevenly Executed
Star Trek: Enterprise ran four seasons and 97 episodes on UPN from 2001 to 2005. A look at Archer, T'Pol, Trip Tucker, the cast and the show's legacy.
HBO Says Goodbye to Game of Thrones After the Last Episode Airs
HBO's Game of Thrones franchise loses its grip on the streaming conversation, as House of the Dragon drops from the charts.
Game Reviews8.7/10
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon Review — A Prequel That Slows the Series to a Walking Pace and Earns It
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon review — PlatinumGames' twin-stick Switch prequel swaps guns and heels for a forest, a stuffed cat and an 8.7/10.