There’s no spinning or gerrymandering this one; Shazam!: Fury of the Gods is a bomb. In terms of quality, I don’t think it should have been; I liked it very much (as did Tuggs, whose review you can read here), and unlike, say, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (or pretty much anything Marvel has...
Read MoreThe tagline for John Wick: Chapter 4 should have been “Go big or go home.” This is a big movie, certainly the biggest in a series that keeps getting bigger. It has the longest running time yet for a John Wick film at almost three hours. But unlike the lumbering behemoths in the Fast and …...
Read MoreThe Disney boat is not done rocking yet. Following yesterday’s news that Victoria Alonso has left Marvel, Above the Line exclusively reports that Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson have left the Star Wars movie they were supposed to write. ATL says that Lindelof and Britt-Gibson turned in thei...
Read MoreThe 95th Academy Awards aired last night, and the three or four people who watched it noticed something during the In Memoriam presentation, which honors members of the movie business who’ve passed away since the previous ceremony. Watch for yourself: Did you see any names missing from that video?...
Read More“The Mask of the Red Death Part 2” feels more like a series finale than a season finale. It’s got all the hallmarks of a capper – minus a worthy villain – with Barry’s ideology at the forefront. And it’s a good episode, even great in parts, but some of the same problems that have &hell...
Read MoreStar Wars is dropping some dead weight. Variety exclusively reports that, according to their sources, not only is Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron dead but the Star Wars film to be produced by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has also been scrapped. (The official phrase is “no longer in active ...
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