Sonic the Hedgehog: Fun Family Fare
Sonic the Hedgehog
While Sonic made a couple of changes for the sake of the storyline, the movie stuck to the pure fun of the games.
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For the Love of Love: The Revealing Nature of Superhero Romance
Superheroes allow us to see what we care about most in the world. They help us come to terms with the human experience and the results are in: the human experience is love.
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Spiderman and Mary Jane: Face it, Tiger, There’s Love in the Air
The most famous couple in all of Marvel Comics is surely Spider-Man and Mary Jane. Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman are close runners up, but Spidey and MJ’s only true competition in comics would be DC’s first couple, Superman and Lois Lane. Thanks to those Toby Maguire movies and that famous upside-down kiss, though, I think this pair is advancing even on Lois and Clark.
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Birds of Prey: The Harley Quinn Show
Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Batgirl, also known as Oracle or Barbara Gordon. Black Canary. Huntress. Lady Blackhawk. Gordon and Canary are the original members of the Birds of Prey, while Huntress and Lady Blackhawk have been the other longtime mainstays. This movie, though, is all about Harley Quinn. That’s not entirely a negative issue, though, as the movie proves to be entertaining even if wildly untrue to the comics.
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Bliss: Original Concept, Bad Execution
Bliss
Bliss follows artist Dezz as she suffers a creative block and turns to a powerful new drug called Diablo, which increases her ability to create but ends up turning her insane. This movie certainly gets an A for originality; The concept is really cool, but it has some structural flaws. What are they? Let’s find out.
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A Review of Inside the Star Wars Empire: A Memoir
Inside the Star Wars Empire: A Memoir is a new book by Bill Kimberlin, who has worked in Hollywood for decades and uses his knowledge of behind-the-scenes movie making to present a stellar depiction of what it really takes to make movie magic.
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Some THING is in the Works
Back in 1982, John Carpenter released one of the most amazing horror movies of all time, The Thing. The story, based on John W. Campbell’s novella Who Goes There, has actually been turned into a movie twice with a 3rd movie following essentially the same plot but coming in as a prequel to Carpenter’s classic. This week, it was announced that Universal and Blumhouse are developing another one!
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Spies in Disguise: A Fun, If Forgettable, Family Movie with a Moral
Spies in Disguise
Spies in Disguise is a bit cheesy, but it still manages to be fun. With a spy who accidentally gets transformed into a pigeon as the premise of the movie, you would expect a level of goofiness with this movie.
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Knives Out: A Modernized Whodunit
Knives Out
Rian Johnson took the concept of the Victorian mansion murder mystery and updated it for modern audiences, making it interesting again. It played out like the Clue board game but with additional great wit, suspense, and sardonic humor.
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The Grudge: A Curse Is Born
The Grudge
The Grudge is a technically beautiful film with tonnes of atmosphere and dread to spare, as well as solid performances all around from a game cast, more-or-less making up for what it lacks in effective scares and horror set-pieces.
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Jumanji: The Next Level – Same Plot, But Same Fun
Jumanji: The Next Level
If you’re looking to step back into the same action-packed, hilarious world of the last Jumanji movie, then Jumanji: The Next Level delivers.
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Who Will Be Marvel’s Next Big Villain?
With Thanos’ story culminating in Avengers: Endgame, many people are wondering who the next big bad of Marvel’s MCU movies is going to be. Process of elimination cuts many villains out of the possibilities. So, we’re ranking the villains most likely to manipulate and attack our beloved Marvel heroes in the future of the MCU.
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