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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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…
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…
Oscar Schmoscar 2022
I originally started these posts to express my tongue-in-cheek disinterest in the Oscars, especially who the winners were (since I’d watched so surprisingly few). However, over the years, I’ve shifted to genuine interest in the nominees (though I still don’t care that much about who wins) and look on them as a checklist of films…
Spider-Man: No Way Home – Catch-up Movie Review
I’m probably one of the last people to see this movie, which has been out for almost two months. But at least this way I can comment freely without fear of giving anything away about this movie because you’ve all seen it, right? Nevertheless, just in case, I’m still issuing a spoiler alert for this…
New Superhero TV
Many of us have tested positive for superhero overdose in recent years, but it has been almost two years since the release of Avengers: Endgame, and arguably long enough time to be ready for some more from the MCU and other sources of spandex-based entertainment. Of course, in the intervening time we have been treated…
TV Universes Keep Expanding, part 2 – Marvel
Continued from part 1, about Star Trek/Star Wars Last, but far from least is the multi-billion-dollar mega-franchise of Marvel’s cinematic universe. Unlike the others, where expanding the universe means coming up with new characters and new stories (backstories) around existing characters, Marvel Comics already has a decades-long backlog of some of the most epic characters…
10 Favourite Movies of the Decade
Even though I’ve posted reviews of most of the movies that I’ve seen, it’s harder than I expected to pick my 10 favourite movies of the past decade. Keep in mind, they’re not the 10 “best” movies, since I have hardly seen even a small percentage of all the movies that came out so I…
Spider-man: Far From Home – Movie Review
I’m not sure whether it was the European locales, or another fresh performance by Tom Holland as Spider-man, that had me most looking forward to this movie. Having the kids from Spider-man: Homecoming head to London, Venice, Prague, Berlin, etc. for their class trip may have seemed unrealistically extravagant, but how else do I get…
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