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 […]
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The New Mutants Review
The New Mutants is the last movie in the current X-Men series, a film that sees the superhero genre enter into horror territory. Dani Moonstar (Blu Hunt) is a teenager who awakes in a hospital where she’s told that her whole tribe had been killed and that she’s a mutant. In the hospital are four other mutants, Rahne […]
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) Review
The ever-popular Harley Quinn gets her chance to lead her first feature film with the Suicide Squad spin-off  Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). The film ends up being an R-rated look at the seedy side of the DCEU. Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) has broken up with the Joker and she announces this […]
Pitch Time: The MCU X-Men Movie
The X-Men is one of the excessive and thematic comic book franchises around. It has hundreds of characters and has people who are discriminated against for having powers. Now that Disney has brought 20th Century Fox the world of the X-Men is set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe which delights Marvel fans but raises […]
Spider-man: Far From Home Review
Spider-man: Far From Home is the first MCU film to be released after Avengers: Endgame – and the implication those events have on the film franchise. Seeing that Endgame ended on such a high Spider-man: Far From Home had a lot to live up to. Spider-man: Far From Home picks up eight months after Avengers: Endgame where The Avengers successfully reverse ‘The Blip.’  Peter […]
Men in Black: International Review
Men in Black was a pop culture phenomenon when it was first released in 1997. Since that time Sony has tried to recapture that magic and now they are attempting a soft-reboot. Molly Wright (Tessa Thompson) is a woman who had an encounter with the Men in Black as a child. She avoided being neuralized and […]
Avengers: Endgame Review
It has come to this, after 21 films over 11 years Marvel Studios has now developed their most ambitious film yet with Avengers: Endgame. Avengers: Endgame takes place five years after The Snap, the event that wiped out half of all living things. The remaining Avengers are divided and at their lowest ebb. When Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) returns […]
Hellboy Review
The first two Hellboy films by Guillermo del Toro have a cult following but financially were only modest successes, so the reboot button has been pressed for the 2019 film. In the 6th century King Arthur and Merlin were able to stop Nimue, the Blood Queen (Milla Jovovich) from taking over England. To prevent Nimue from being a […]