Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! The MCU is dead… or at least that’s what the Internet would have you believe. But the Internet is at best an unreliable narrator and at worst a downright liar, so you’d be a fool to … Continue reading The Marvels: Review
Caution: Contains Minor Spoilers Marvel took a big risk with the original Ant-Man movie in 2015, because Ant-Man really isn’t one of their big hitters. I mean, sure, in his comic book Hank Pym form he was a member of … Continue reading Ant-Man and the Wasp – Quantumania: Review
Warning: Contains Minor Spoilers! There’s a pattern that occurs in film series when they make the decision to become more light-hearted and it can be clearly seen in everything from 1970s Bond to 1990s Batman; you start with a movie … Continue reading Thor – Love and Thunder: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! When people talked about the ‘Predator franchise’ in the 1990s, I used to think what franchise? You’ve had one hit movie, one flop sequel and a bunch of graphic novels that only comics fans have read. There … Continue reading Prey: Review
Frank Herbert’s Dune has a turbulent history with the visual media. Published in 1965, the novel quickly acquired a cult following among counter-culture types due to its trippy prose and drug-taking analogies, but it was considered unfilmable. In 1970, fresh … Continue reading Dune: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! M. Night Shyamalan is surely one of Hollywood’s most inconsistent directors. In a career with more peaks and troughs than a pig farm in the Andes, he’s directed everything from solid gold classics like The Sixth Sense … Continue reading Old: Review
Warning: Major spoilers! For people who’ve seen the movie’s eyes only! The James Bond franchise is not like Star Trek or Doctor Who; it has no internal canonicity as such. There are pockets of continuity, usually within the era of … Continue reading No Time to Die: Review
Following cinematic trends in the 1970s frequently did Marvel Comics a great many favours in later years; the trend for ‘Blaxploitation’ movies in the early 70s witnessed the birth of Blade the Vampire Slayer and Luke Cage: Power Man and … Continue reading Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Review
Warning: contains spoilers. This movie has been a long time coming. So long in fact that the proposed first female-led superhero movie of the modern era has been easily overtaken by DCU’s Wonder Woman (et seq) and MCU’s own Captain … Continue reading Black Widow: Review
Warning: Contains Spoilers! Patty Jenkins’ 2017 Wonder Woman trashed all the DC Comics movies of recent years at the box office, exceeding the earnings of its nearest rival Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice by almost a quarter. This might … Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984: Review
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