Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse isn’t a good movie though what’s surprising is how bad it actually is. It’s badly written, directed in a mediocre fashion and a terrible interpretation of one of Marvel Comics’ most powerful mutants (never mind how it treats the other characters. Like Psylocke. Like Storm. Like Archangel/Angel. Like Quicksilver). I could […]
If you’ve seen The Amazing Spider-Man 1 & 2 and Venom you probably feel that Sony’s treatment of Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man property has not always been up to snuff (and you likely noticed I didn’t include Sam Raimi’s original trilogy, and that was no accident since Raimi essentially did what he wanted with the first two movies; with any mentionable degree […]
Earlier today the official trailer for The New Mutants dropped and…it’s not entirely different from the trailers that dropped two years ago. Yes, this movie was in the pipeline for that long. At the time Josh Boone’s movie wasn’t well regarded among Fox executives and since the purchase of their movie assets by Disney a […]
I recently saw 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and it’s one of the worse movies I have ever seen. And I’m not being hyperbolic here. It’s. The. Worst. It’s the epitome of cinema as product and virtually engineered to get asses into theater seats, which I did not do particularly well, it’s worth saying. And […]
I created a reaction trailer to Patty Jenkins’ for Wonder Woman 1984 though in case you don’t feel like watching, it’s not great (not my reaction trailer, that’s awesome. I mean WW 1984). It’s colorful and seems to reflect that 80’s esthetic pretty well–probably better than Netflix’s Stranger Things–but the trailer is chaotic and not […]
The teaser for Marvel Studios’ Black Widow dropped early this morning, and it’s glorious though what I mentioned in my video is worth repeating, namely Black Widow will likely avoid what I like to call ‘The Charlie’s Angels Misstep.’ By which I mean you make an action film designed with a laser-like focus to appeal […]
Damon Lindelof’s interpretation–truth be told I’m not at all sure what to call it–of Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is a pretty interesting bird. And as much flack as Lindelof gets for Star Trek: Into Darkness and Prometheus (relatively little of which was actually deserved) you can’t say that the man is afraid to […]
I didn’t hate David F. Sandberg’s Shazam!, nor did I particularly like it. My greatest problem with the movie–and they’re quite a few–is that the it doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Is it a horror movie? Is it a movie geared toward young people? I couldn’t tell, which makes me think […]
To paraphrase Superman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. DC Universe, the streaming channel dedicated to all things DC Comics, is finished. There’s been no announcement to that effect, but the writing’s on the wall. First Swamp Thing was cancelled before it’s first EPISODE! And now Stargirl, a new series coming to DC Universe, […]
When I caught Spider-Man: Far From Home in theaters I admit that I was in it primarily for Mysterio, one of my favorite villains. That being said, I didn’t expect to be introduced to the latest Sony/Marvel superhero sensation, Night Monkey! Easily the best thing about the movie, Night Monkey may not be a name […]
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