If you had told me a few years ago that soon I would be spending more time watching videos on YouTube than streaming Netflix, I would have called you crazy. While I observed YouTube’s incredible popularity, I always thought it was more for kids with short attention spans watching pranks, unboxings, or their friends playing…
Category: Fantasy
Avatar: The Way of Water – Movie Review
Watching the sequel to James Cameron’s ground-breaking animated epic, Avatar, I was looking forward to an expansion of the fictional world of Pandora. In the climax of the first movie, we got a brief glimpse of the other Na’vi people around the planet, seeing tribes apart from the Omaticaya tribe who had been the focus…
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Movie Review
Wakanda Forever was both a movie about grief and about war. Two of the biggest topics in human life, but Marvel tackles them within a single movie. After the loss of T’Challa, the Black Panther from the first movie (who apparently died of an unnamed illness — mirroring the death of actor Chadwick Boseman, who…
Fantasy TV for Fall 2022
As a fan of fantasy stories, I am loving that this post-Game of Thrones resurgence of the genre is making a big-budget run at streaming success. Previous seasons already gave us The Witcher and The Wheel of Time (sadly neither have become my favourites), and now we have a few more series bringing their tales…
Animation Reviews: Lightyear, Sing 2, The Sea Beast, The Bad Guys, Belle, and Bubble
Growing up with a lot of Disney, I’ve always loved animated movies. So even as a middle-aged adult, I enjoy catching up with a lot of these movies. These days there are a steady flow of them coming to theatres and streaming channels, and their visual quality and production values seem quite high. The only…
Thor: Love and Thunder – Movie Review
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…
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…
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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