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DC Comics has a great legacy of making Elseworld stories about their popular characters. One of the most famous was Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son which showed what would happen if Superman was brought up in the Soviet Union. In 1955 the Soviet Union announced to the world that they have Superman, changing the balance […]
Wolfwalkers is the latest critically acclaimed film from the Irish studio, Cartoon Saloon. It has ended up being released on Apple TV+ internationally and Apple has got themselves a gem of a film. Bill Goodfellowe (Sean Bean) is a hunter who is tasked by the Lord Protector of England (Simon McBurney) to hunt the wolves pestering […]
A Street Cat Named Bob was a big hit in the UK. It was a touching story about how a man saved a stray cat and that cat helped him overcome his drug addiction. The pair return for a Christmas themed sequel. Following the events of the first film James Bowen (Luke Treadaway) still busks […]
Wonder Woman 1984 is the last major blockbuster to be released in 2020. Considering how horrible a year 2020 has been the second Wonder Woman cinematic adventure is a nice well to close the year for film fans. In 1984 Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) works as an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institute and does superheroics […]
Wander Darkly is a conundrum of a film. A deep dive into the fracturing of a relationship, there’s a lot to like about it: strong leading performances from Sienna Miller and Diego Luna as the central couple along with interesting directorial choices from writer-director Tara Miele that lend the film a surrealist tinge that keeps […]
White Lie is a drama that has been well received by critics and was selected as one of the Top Ten Canadian Films at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Katie Arneson (Kacey Rohl) is a university student who has been faking she has cancer. Even her girlfriend, Jenn (Amber Anderson) believes she’s ill. Katie […]
Bad Times at the El Royale was Drew Goddard’s homage to film noir and ensemble casts. What he created was a film about people with deep, dark secrets coalescing at a single location. The El Royale Hotel is literally on the border of California and Nevada. On one faithful day in 1969, five people with […]
Nostalgia, Video Games, and Geek Culture have dominated the zeitgeist for over a decade. Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One smashed these ideas together and after it was a publishing success, led to it being adapted as a big-budget film by Steven Spielberg. In 2045 a lot of people escape their troubles by going into […]
A note about my history with Christmas romantic comedies: I’ve never really watched any of them. Why? Well, as I like to tell my friends, I can watch straight couples fall in love in humorous ways throughout the year – why would I care all that much if those romantic moments happen during the month […]
The rise of Youtube has led to the rise of the Youtube personality. Many Youtube personalities have tried their hand at making a film based on their characters, including Stuart Ashen, AKA Ashens who has made his second film. Stuart Ashen is a collector of tat and obscure yet worthless technology. Ashens’ business partner, Benny […]