The Rise of Retcon A Film Review of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker The legacy of the Star Wars sequel trilogy is a cautionary tale of what results from the film production of a beloved intellectual property when not enough hard work, tough choices and legitimate time are put into planning such …
The final X-Men movie under Fox Studios debuted this weekend with Dark Phoenix, which should have gone out with a bang, but it’s rather a whimper. I’ll say it’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be, and I did like it better than X-Men: Apocalypse. Also, don’t let the 22% Rotten …
Shazam! is now in theaters directed by David F. Sandberg starring Zachary Levi as the titular superhero along with Asher Angel as Billy Batson, Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Freeman and Mark Strong as the villain, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana. The flick is currently the number one movie at the box office as it brought in …
Kevin Feige, Disney, and Marvel Studios debut their big Captain Marvel movie this weekend starring Carol Danvers that catapults the character to not only the forefront of the MCU but the background as well. The flick propels the character into the past, present, and future where Brie Larson will be the new face of the Marvel …
Godzilla: Planet Eater is now available to stream on Netflix, which is the third part of the Godzilla anime series, but once again, while this one is the best of the three, it’s far from being any good. Following the first movie revealing Godzilla 20,000 years or so into the future, and last movie’s “big” reveal …
Paramount Pictures gives the Transformers franchise one last breath of life with the new Travis Knight-directed Bumblebee movie, which is written by Christina Hodson, writer of the upcoming DC Batgirl movie. Following movies such as Disney Star Wars, Bumblebee is another attempt by Hollywood to inject a female character into what has predominantly been male …
Following having been first teased back in Batman vs. Superman in 2016 and then getting a full-blown appearance in Justice League last year, Jason Momoa returns in his solo film this week for James Wan’s Aquaman movie, which also stars Amber Heard as Mera, Willem Dafoe as Vulko, Patrick Wilson as Orm, Dolph Lundgren as …
Respect for What It Is A Film Review of Mission: Impossible – Fallout There’s something to be said of a film production that knows exactly what it is without trying to shoehorn half measures of nuanced complexity that only succeed in distracting from the good rather than building upon it. The professional collaboration among …
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle is now streaming on Netflix, which is the sequel to last year’s Godzilla: Monster Planet anime movie. Similar to the first one, the sequel comes off as another disappointment. While I found the animation and sound effects pleasing to the eyes and ears, it was the story that …
Yesterday I finally got a chance to see Ant-Man and the Wasp, the sequel to the 2015 movie, and overall I was pretty happy with the film. I felt the movie was a good follow-up to The Avengers: Infinity War, and I agree with what Kevin Feige had to say in that “it felt right …
I See Stupid People A Film Review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 25 Years and 5 big budget “dinosaur attack” films later and all I still see are dim-witted people the audience is meant to care about in these films. The underlying theme of the Jurassic franchise is that the science to manipulate genetics …
The Only Prescription is More Soy A Film Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story Years from now, people may regard Solo: A Star Wars Story as simply another chapter in a series of blockbuster space operas that at one point was the gold standard for cinematic entertainment. However, the current zeitgeist for the Star …
Here’s a Tip for the Pool Boy A Film Review of Deadpool 2 Everyone who is a fan of movies and well versed in Hollywood’s business culture should be happy that a film like Deadpool exists. In such a cynical world of formulaic, profit predictive, pre-release audience tested, social agenda subversive, superhero and visual effect …
Going off the Rails on a Crazy Train A Review of D-Box technology D-Box is a motion immersion technology installed in select AMC Theatres and is meant to further blur the line between the audience and the screen. No, this isn’t anything like Star Tours in Disney World or the Back to the Future …
Rewarding the Faithful A Film Review of Avengers: Infinity War Bold. Bold is a word that so easily gets tossed into the promotion of so many products, concepts and movements in today’s western culture that society has developed a tendency to take such lofty promises with a healthy grain of salt thanks to several end …
The Altar of Pop Culture A Ready Player One Review There are no heroes. Everyone has an agenda. Nothing is sacred. In this day in age for every shining example to aspire to regarding any walk of life, examples of the extreme opposite have been revealed in those same pockets of actuality. In tumultuous times, …
If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them A Film Review of Get Out It has been a full year since the cultural phenomenon known as Jordan Peele’s Get Out released in theatres and circumstances kept me from a first wave screening and review. Since its release, this film has received nigh universal praise for …
Last week saw the premiere of Marvel’s Black Panther movie, which has been kicking all kinds of butt at Rotten Tomatoes and the box office. Black Panther is now over $500 million worldwide, and its Rotten Tomatoes score still sits at a whopping 97%, the highest of any Marvel movie (or most movies for that matter). …
Progress A Film Review of Black Panther Hollywood is a highly profitable industry which, like every other, has been exploited and controlled by a select cross section of people. The demand for increased diversity in Hollywood within the industry stems from more than just people of color wanting to make bigger Hollywood money; although …
What was supposed to be an original sci-fi movie about the Earth disappearing, “The God Particle” eventually became a Cloverfield movie with The Cloverfield Paradox. The movie was delayed from its last year release, but during this past Sunday’s Super Bowl, it was revealed that not only had Netflix picked up the flick, but that The Cloverfield Paradox would be …