Spot Reviews 12/26/25
Dec 26 2025
Stick s1 (2025) [/] Apple TV golf comedy of 10 episodes in season one. Pryce Cahill (Owen Wilson) was once a promising rising star golfer who self-destructed and 15-20 years later is very washed up. But he encounters Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager), a young phenom who works as a stock boy. Cahill bets it all that he can make Wheeler into a pro golfer but as the series goes on Cahill has to deal with his own demons and Wheeler's ones. Meanwhile the two travel in a Winnebago -- with Cahill's good friend Mitts (Marc Maron) and Wheeler's mom Elena (Mariana Treviño) and later with Wheeler's slacker girlfriend Zero (Lilly Kay) -- doing the small regional golfing events... Has funny moments and dramatic moments and half-hour-ish episodes means there is no time to be boring.
TMNT Splintered Fate (2023) [+] Multiplayer roguelike using Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle characters. Venture into the sewers where it's three random rooms of minions then a random miniboss or boss. Get temporary power-ups that last for a few rooms or your run; collect dragon coins which you use between runs to buy permanent enhancements. Supports co-cop either on same iPad (need a controller) or online (create a public or private run) and up to 4 players. There's a storyline where you are trying to rescue Splinter and lots of voice acted dialog. Runs smoothly on my iPad even with touch controls. It's a fun arcade brawler.
Vampirella: Feary Tales TPB (2015) [/]. Collects the five issue series. Vampirella is trapped in a magic book and forced to live through various twisted fairy tale stories (e.g. the first issue is "Bluebeard", also the subject of the RPG Bluebeard's Bride, and "Cinderella"). Meanwhile the unseen Narrator taunts Vampirella with many puns.
This is somewhat of an homage to the old Vampirella Magazine wherein Vampirella was the narrator of various horror tales, before she eventually became an actual character in the tales. The stories are by various authors and quality varies. Overall though it's an entertaining series.
TMNT Splintered Fate (2023) [+] Multiplayer roguelike using Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle characters. Venture into the sewers where it's three random rooms of minions then a random miniboss or boss. Get temporary power-ups that last for a few rooms or your run; collect dragon coins which you use between runs to buy permanent enhancements. Supports co-cop either on same iPad (need a controller) or online (create a public or private run) and up to 4 players. There's a storyline where you are trying to rescue Splinter and lots of voice acted dialog. Runs smoothly on my iPad even with touch controls. It's a fun arcade brawler.
Vampirella: Feary Tales TPB (2015) [/]. Collects the five issue series. Vampirella is trapped in a magic book and forced to live through various twisted fairy tale stories (e.g. the first issue is "Bluebeard", also the subject of the RPG Bluebeard's Bride, and "Cinderella"). Meanwhile the unseen Narrator taunts Vampirella with many puns.
This is somewhat of an homage to the old Vampirella Magazine wherein Vampirella was the narrator of various horror tales, before she eventually became an actual character in the tales. The stories are by various authors and quality varies. Overall though it's an entertaining series.