I admit that I had not been planning to watch another Spider-Man movie in the same way that I had anticipated watching The Odyssey. My MCU-love had seriously waned. However, after hearing the cheers and reviews, I was excited to watch Brand New Day. I thought the other two movies featuring Tom Holland as Spider-Man…
Category: Superheroes
Fantastic Four: First Steps – Movie Review
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this movie. I have seen a couple of the previous Fantastic Four movies, but don’t remember much, and though I have read quite a few of their comics, I have not kept up with the characters for a while. Nevertheless, I did go into the theatre with…
Catching up with the MCU: Thunderbolts* & Captain America: Brave New World – Movie Reviews
This weekend, I finally caught up with Marvel’s latest cinematic duology, as Captain America: Brave New World debuted on Disney+ and I went to see Thunderbolts* in the theatre. (I knew I was behind the ball, but I was still surprised that there were only three other people in the theatre with me. I guess…
Deadpool & Wolverine – Movie Review
It is probably the most anticipated movie in a long while (not necessarily by me) and it was a lot of fun, but I find myself wondering how far Deadpool & Wolverine will really go to reverse Disney/Marvel’s fortunes. In fact, that backstory surrounding recent MCU flops like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Secret Invasion,…
Catching up with genre TV: Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Doctor Who, and more
It has been a long minute since I last posted, but I admit I’ve been feeling a bit of entertainment ennui. Most of my favourite franchises have been so mediocre and underwhelming. A lot of hype in the fandoms has been around how they appear to have gone “woke”, and that being the problem. I…
Animation is awesome: 10 new and returning shows to prove it
Ever since I grew up in the 80s watching Saturday Morning Cartoons, I have loved watching animation. When done well, there is a dynamic fun and imaginative freedom to animation that even the most CGI-heavy live action cannot reproduce. With the streaming channels there are a lot of animated series floating around (most of them…
Summer TV 2023
Now that summer has become a legitimate TV season (thanks to streaming), it’s exciting to be able to watch series that I enjoy (along with a few new shows) during a period when everything used to be on hiatus or reruns. The new seasons of Black Mirror and the debut of Marvel’s Secret Invasion really…
The Flash – Movie Review
The box office is a pretty tough place these days — even for a big-budget superhero action movie. Fans are told more about the machinations of the mega-studios in the background than the actual movies themselves. We hear about 10-year roadmaps, reboots, and the ever-elusive shared cinematic universes. All that static was no help to…
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Movie Review
The 2018 movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a fun, visually-stunning, refreshingly-creative success that left some very large shoes to fill. Not only did this sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, need to impress us with amazing animation, but also needed to continue the meaningful, heartfelt, humorous story that was begun in the first film. I’m…
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