2018’s Black Panther is considered to be one of the best films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It has a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and is the only MCU film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. However, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever had to face the challenge of losing its star. T’Challa, the king of Wakanda dies of […]
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DC League of Super-Pets Review
The works of DC Comics have been eclectic. There have been light-hearted Silver Age stories to much darker tales. One of their lighter properties, The Legion of Super-Pets has now been adapted into an animated film. Krypto (Dwayne Johnson) is the loyal companion to Superman (John Krasinski). They are best friends and partners in superheroics. However, […]
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Review
It has been a long six-year wait for Doctor Strange to have a second solo adventure. This time Marvel brought in a directional heavyweight for an adventure across the multiverse. America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) is a teenage girl who has the power to travel the multiverse. She’s also being chased by demons and monsters. When […]
Morbius Review
Morbius is the third entry in Sony’s Spider-man Universe. This time the studio brings the living vampire to the big screen with Jared Leto in the title role. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) is a genius haematologist who has a rare blood condition that requires three blood transfusions a day to live. In an attempt to find […]
The Batman Review
Batman is one of the most enduring superheroes, having a legacy of over 80 years. Robert Pattinson is the latest actor to take on the role with Matt Reeves putting his own spin on the franchise. Bruce Wayne (Pattinson) has been Batman for two years. Gotham is still a crime-infested hellhole and plagued with social […]
Pitch Time: A Live Action Dark Knight Returns Movie
The Dark Knight Returns is a graphic novel that hardly needs an introduction. It’s one of the most well-known graphic novels, it changed the public perception of the Caped Crusader, and arguably Frank Miller’s magnum opus. Along with Watchmen it was the graphic novel that ushered in the Dark Age of Comics. Elements of the graphic novel […]
Venom: Let There Be Carnage Review
2018’s Venom was a film that defied exception because it made $856 million even though it received poor reviews. Sony wanted to cash in on that success and on their Spider-Man property so have released the second film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) has become a successful journalist for the Daily Bulge and has been interviewing […]
Venom Review
Spider-man is one of Sony’s most lucrative film properties. But the studio is at a crossroads because of the failure of The Amazing Spider-man series and needing to work with Marvel to bring the character into the MCU. In 2018 Sony tried to show what they could do with the property with the spin-off Venom and the animated film Spider-man: Into […]
The Suicide Squad Review
What a difference five years and a slightly different title can make. In 2016, Warner Bros released a half-thought-out hodgepodge of a movie called Suicide Squad. Although it was a financial success, it was also an absolute mess that left a sour taste in most mouths. The final film was edited and re-edited to the […]
Superman: Red Son Blu-ray Review
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 […]