Much of The Flash’s final season has been disappointing at best, but last week’s stellar episode made wading through that swamp worth it. It was so good I wondered if it should have been the finale, closing out the series on a high note instead of rolling the dice with four more episodes. But if...
Read MoreAfter the last few years of Marvel duds, disappointments, and flat-out disasters, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 feels like a miracle. I’ll stop short of declaring it as such, but it’s an oasis in the desert made up of the remains of what the Marvel Cinematic Universe used to be. It feels like a...
Read MoreSometimes I watch a movie just by chance or default rather than actively planning on it. This was the case with Suzume, the latest from writer/director Makoto Shinkai (Weathering With You, Your Name). The art style appealed to me, but I went in without prior knowledge, including the director’...
Read MoreJames Gunn is possessive of his Guardians. A recent article in The Hollywood Reporter discusses Gunn’s tumultuous relationship with Marvel and Disney, and amid blaming cancel culture on conservatives and suggesting leftists need to watch what they say (it’s hard out there for a pimp), THR reveal...
Read MoreThis is one of the strangest Marvel rumors to pop up in quite a while. It started when Grace Randolph tweeted about actresses being considered to play Sue Storm, The Invisible Woman, in Fantastic Four, one of the few announced Marvel movies that sounds like it could possibly be good. Among those she...
Read MoreSisu is pretty good. That’s the most generic way possible to sum it up (outside of a raised or lowered thumb), but it’s apt. This is a fun, lean action movie that does most of what it does right, and it’s got some neat filmmaking and an interesting lead character. But watching it once feels &h...
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