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Author: Dr. Winston O'Boogie

· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 1, 2018

Hit or Bomb? March 2018 movie predictions

It may be March, but it’s looking more like summer at the cineplex, due to several big budget sci-fi/fantasy releases this month. Once again, it’s time for us here at the Agony Booth to play armchair box office prognosticators and…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 15, 2018

Black superhero movies, ranked

It’s the eve of the release of Marvel’s Black Panther, widely expected to break multiple box office records, not the least of which being the biggest superhero film of all time starring a black lead. In the tradition of…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 13, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "Will You Take My Hand?"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The Discovery traveled to the Mirror Universe and lost a captain but gained an empress, and Mirror Georgiou made no secret of how she considered Saru’s race to be nothing more than chattel. Tyler…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 5, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "The War Without, the War Within"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Lt. Ash Tyler was really the Klingon known as Voq, Son of None, with Ash Tyler’s psyche grafted over his own, and L’Rell was the only one who could treat him. In the Mirror…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 31, 2018

Hit or Bomb? February 2018 movie predictions

February looks to be yet another month where a Disney release runs laps around its competitors at the box office. But that’s not going to stop us from once again getting judgmental about this month’s big releases and deciding if…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 29, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "What's Past is Prologue"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Discovery crossed over into the Mirror Universe, where Georgiou is the Terran emperor. Stamets met Mirror Stamets, who’s evil and he’s somehow corrupted the mycelial network. The Discovery is on its way to rendezvous…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 23, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "Vaulting Ambition"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The Discovery crossed over into the Mirror Universe, where Burnham and Lorca went undercover as their Terran counterparts to get info about the Defiant, the last Federation starship to cross over. Tyler realized that…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 15, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "The Wolf Inside"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The whole damn ship ended up in the Mirror Universe, prompting Lorca to transform it into the “ISS Discovery”, under the command of Captain Tilly. Spore-jumping to a parallel universe turned Stamets into a…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 9, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery “Despite Yourself”

Last half-season on Star Trek: Discovery: The USS Discovery became the Federation’s secret weapon in the war against the Klingons, thanks to a spore-powered drive that allows them to be anywhere in the galaxy in an instant. Captain Lorca…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 8, 2018

The 30 most popular posts of 2017

It’s 2018, and somehow, we’re all still alive. But as you prepare for another year of sheer existential terror, spend some time revisiting this website’s most popular posts of 2017, some of which aren’t even about superheroes, Star Trek, or…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 3, 2018

Hit or Bomb? January 2018 movie predictions

Welcome to a particularly barren January in terms of sci-fi/fantasy/comic book blockbusters (i.e., the only movies of interest to anyone reading this). Regardless, we here at the Agony Booth are determined to soldier on and once again make knee-jerk assessments…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 28, 2017

Star Trek: Voyager “Alice”

My recaps of bad Star Trek: Voyager episodes continue with season six’s “Alice”, one of those utterly predictable Voyager episodes that foreshadows its plot so heavily that by two minutes in, we already know exactly how the whole damn plot…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 20, 2017

Bad Superhero Movie Showdown 2013: Thor: The Dark World vs. Man of Steel

Welcome back to Bad Superhero Movie Showdown, in which we compare two reviled superhero movies to definitively answer the question of which one fails the most. In 2013, Marvel released a third Iron Man film, creatively titled Iron Man …

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 14, 2017

The least anticipated movies of 2018

It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means: It’s time once again to look forward to the movies that no one is looking forward to. Some of you might recall I compiled a list like this…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 5, 2017

Star Trek: Voyager "Elogium"

Being in the middle of a long mid-season break before Star Trek: Discovery returns, I figured what better time to recap episodes of previous Star Trek shows to fill the void? Like, say, Voyager? I won’t lie; the news…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 30, 2017

Hit or Bomb? December 2017 movie predictions

It’s December, which means it’s time for the studios to roll out their big family-friendly blockbusters amidst a sea of indie films making their Oscar qualifying runs, but just like last year, there’s a lot less sci-fi and fantasy than…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 14, 2017

Star Trek: Discovery "Into the Forest I Go"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Lt. Stamets is the key to powering the Discovery’s spore drive, but it’s been doing strange things to him, and he’s afraid to tell his boyfriend Dr. Culber. Lt. Tyler was previously held captive…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 8, 2017

Star Trek: Discovery "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: Mutineer Michael Burnham accepted a bridge post on the USS Discovery, the Federation’s not-so-secret weapon in its war against the Klingons. Captain Lorca and Lt. Ash Tyler pulled of an escape from a Klingon…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 1, 2017

Hit or Bomb? November 2017 movie predictions

Welcome to November! It’s officially the holiday season and the studios are now bringing out their A-game in terms of star-studded special effects extravaganzas. Once again, we at the Agony Booth are here to make knee-jerk assessments about which of…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Oct 31, 2017

Star Trek: Discovery “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The USS Discovery has a super-secret spore drive that gives it the edge over the Klingons, and a crucial element of the spore drive is Lt. Stamets injecting himself with “tardigrade DNA” and strapping…

Author: Dr. Winston O'Boogie

Hit or Bomb? March 2018 movie predictions

Black superhero movies, ranked

Star Trek: Discovery "Will You Take My Hand?"

Star Trek: Discovery "The War Without, the War Within"

Hit or Bomb? February 2018 movie predictions

Star Trek: Discovery "What's Past is Prologue"

Star Trek: Discovery "Vaulting Ambition"

Star Trek: Discovery "The Wolf Inside"

Star Trek: Discovery “Despite Yourself”

The 30 most popular posts of 2017

Hit or Bomb? January 2018 movie predictions

Star Trek: Voyager “Alice”

Bad Superhero Movie Showdown 2013: Thor: The Dark World vs. Man of Steel

The least anticipated movies of 2018

Star Trek: Voyager "Elogium"

Hit or Bomb? December 2017 movie predictions

Star Trek: Discovery "Into the Forest I Go"

Star Trek: Discovery "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

Hit or Bomb? November 2017 movie predictions

Star Trek: Discovery “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”

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