After watching Thor: Love and Thunder, I really have no idea what the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s current “phase 4” (of which this movie is the midpoint) is really all about. For the most part, it’s been a bunch of new characters that haven’t exactly made a huge splash, and a few middling stories/sequels with established…
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Spiderhead & The Man From Toronto – Double-header Netflix Movie Review
It’s a rare occasion when I sit down to watch movies on Netflix (after all, there’s still more Umbrella Academy episodes to watch!) but I thought I’d take a break from new TV and check out a couple of interesting movies that the streamer has released to my living room. Spiderhead It’s surprising to me…
Too Much Summer TV 2022, part 3
As summer officially begins, hot new/returning shows might be giving the lacklustre summer box office a run for its money. The scheduling of the highly-anticipated return of The Boys within the three-week gap between the two batches of new Stranger Things episodes reminds me a lot of the old “opening weekend” shuffling that used to…
Too Much Summer TV 2022, part 2
Sorry that it’s been over a week since part one, but I’ve been preoccupied with catching up on the new summer TV (especially Stranger Things), so here’s my take on a few more shows that have started-up/resumed recently. Stranger Things Though I had loved the last season a lot, I confess that I wasn’t as…
Too Much Summer TV 2022, part 1
I know it’s not truly summer yet, but let’s not split hairs — there are so many new shows and new seasons that I can’t wait any longer! At a time when we should be heading out (finally!) to cinemas for the start of the blockbuster movie season, the streamers are bombarding us with so…
Top Gun: Maverick – Movie Review
I hadn’t watched the original Top Gun until last night, but I’m glad I did and even gladder that I watched this amazing 35-year-later sequel today. As a teen in the 80s, I never understood the love for Top Gun. Its cocky, rule-breaking hero; its macho, slogan-filled dialogue; and its dizzying, testosterone-fuelled cockpit action sequences…
Downton Abbey: A New Era – Movie Review
The obvious reaction to this movie (and even I, a huge Downton Abbey fan, thought this way) is that it’s just another cash-grab sequel with an irrelevant plot that keeps these aging characters around as long as they can make a buck. The title, “Downton Abbey: A New Era”, suggests a big transition, but it’s…
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Movie Review
The multiverse sure is becoming a popular travel destination. Between the recent sleeper hit, Everything Everywhere All At Once, the latest season of Star Trek: Picard, and of course, Marvel’s recent fun with variants in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the TV series Loki, everyone’s dabbling in alternate realities. This time, Doctor Strange gets multiversal…
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Movie Review
Oh, how the mighty have fallen! When a new Harry Potter movie came out, it was sold-out, top of the box office for weeks, but this was the second weekend for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, and I was just in a theatre with only three others in the audience! (You probably don’t even…
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