Socially Distant, self isolated and sheltered in place.
There are two wolves inside me fighting over Deadpool & Wolverine. The Cynical Wolf doesn’t want me to ignore the complex marketing scheme normalizing ‘variants’ to comfortably introduce 20th Century … Continue Reading Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) July 29th, 2024
I waited a year before entering the exclusion zone left by the Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania bomb. Time would allow me to analyze the film after the dust of … Continue Reading Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) March 4th, 2024
Werewolf by Night successfully homages the James Whale and Tod Browning universal monster films from the 1930s. Unfortunately, Werewolf by Night is ruined by Marvel Studio’s cowardly refusal to embrace … Continue Reading Werewolf by Night (2022) October 6th, 2023
I don’t know exactly how this happened, but somewhere in the hustle and bustle of moving last year I lost track of myself and never wrote a review for Doctor … Continue Reading Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) May 8th, 2022
I’ve been Marvel-shy since last year’s tragic Thor: Love and Thunder release. I skipped Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and can’t say I’m too excited for any of their upcoming … Continue Reading The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. (2023) May 15th, 2023
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is a successful sendup of classic holiday specials complete with format staples like musical numbers, celebrity guest appearances (here’s looking at you Mark … Continue Reading The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) May 14th, 2023
23 years ago I went to the theater and saw the first Dungeons & Dragons movie. I remember only that Marlon Wayans performance felt out of place and I left … Continue Reading Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) April 2nd, 2023
Chadwick Boseman’s death significantly disrupted Marvel Studio’s plans and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever respectfully dedicates a significant portion of its plot and screen time to his passing. In Black Panther: … Continue Reading Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) December 27th, 2022
Unfortunately for Director Taika Waititi great falls come from great heights. The expectations that his newest movie Thor: Love and Thunder would be good came from experience. He starred in … Continue Reading Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) July 10th, 2022
70 years before The Avengers regularly broke box-office records for The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Universal Studios had its own cultural juggernaut with the Universal Monsters. Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff … Continue Reading House of Frankenstein (1944) April 26th, 2020
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