Finishing off the Guardians trilogy with trademark fun adventures and hilarious characters, this third volume fits perfectly on top of its MCU sundae. I know that everyone has seen this movie already, but that only gives me room to get a bit spoilery as I discuss what I liked and didn’t like. For those of…
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Movie Review
There’s nothing like a smart mystery to get our minds going. We want to see if we can figure out whodunit before the answers are revealed. Yet paradoxically our secret hope is that we won’t guess, but will be so cleverly surprised that our jaws will drop instead. Glass Onion is one of these well-crafted…
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…
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…
The Gray Man – Movie Review
Even with the big budgets and big stars, Netflix movies have still seemed a bit mediocre to me. Nevertheless, The Gray Man looked like a fun action, spy-fi film that I would enjoy. Though the tale of an assassin going rogue and being chased by his own agency has strong Bourne echoes, the idea of…
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…
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…
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…
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