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Now that I've covered the anime, I can finally cover and review the original trilogy that revolutionized filmmaking, sci-fi and we're starting off with the original first film, released in 1999 (22 years ago) and left a cinematic and literary legacy and still being praised for it's innovative visual effects, action sequences, cinematography, philosophy and themes and entertainment value. #TheMatri...

The Matrix Resurrections is up on us in one week, so it's time to finally get around to the Matrix series and the rereviews starting in chronological order with the anime itself, The Animatrix. #TheAnimatrix #TheMatrixResurrections Timecodes: 0:00 - Cold opening/intro 0:44 - Review starts 2:05 - Information/why rereview 3:36 - Plot sypnosis 4:07 - Background 5:40 - Final Flight of the Osiris 8:26...

Before I review the Matrix movies and The Animatrix leading up to The Matrix Resurrections, I figured to tell you my history with The Matrix franchise, why I love it so much and why the franchise is a cultural phenomenon to this day. #TheMatrixResurrections 0:00 - intro 0:25-cold opening 1:33- the legacy of the Matrix 5:08 - My history with The Matrix 7:16 My history with The Matrix Reloaded 8:44...

The Twisted Childhood Universe continues with the third entry, "Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare", which is a horror take on the classic Peter Pan stories and while the budgets keep increasing with these, the part of me really wishes they just embrace the stupidity and campy fun of this franchise. #peterpansneverlandnightmare #TwistedChildhoodUniverse #Poohniverse #PeterPan #WendyDarling Sypnosis W...

After a 12 year absence from solo movies and a very anticipated wait, the new era of DC movies officially starts with the first entry in the new era of DC. In this video, Epictastic Joshua’s Joshua Drake Randall gives you all his thoughts on his most anticipated film of 2025, “Superman” and talks about his NON SPOILER thoughts and gives his thoughts on the film, talks about the good and few issues...

Man of Steel was the first attempt at a reboot of Superman and was the first film of the now defunct DC Extended Universe/Snyderverse (DCEU) and it has been the subject of a lot of criticism from movie fans, DC fans, superhero movie fans and Superman fans on both sides and even if you're on either side, this is an interesting film to talk about and defend or hate. In this video, Epictastic Joshua’...

The resurgence of the vampire genre continues with Nosferatu, but this time, a remake from Robert Eggers told in his own style and visuals and it definitely was one of my most interested films of 2024. But the question: Does it make vampires scary again? Find out here. #Nosferatu2024 #Nosferatu #RobertEggers #LilyRoseDepp #BillSkarsgard #vampiremovies *VIDEO NOTE:* This was recorded back in Decemb...

Longlegs was a movie that wasn't big on my radar until last summer but knowing who the director was in and cast involved, I was intrigued to check it out and why it is NOWHERE near the scariest movie ever, I walked away from it last year finding it my favorite horror film of last year. #LonglegsMovie #MovieReview #Longlegs #OzPerkins #MaikaMonroe #NicolasCage #Neon #2024horrormovies #2024horror Sy...

It's been 4 years since this particular show has came out and with the release of Captain America 4 (which I released that review first), I figured that I'd go back, rewatch and give my honest opinion about this certain show with Sam involved. These are going to be Epictastic Joshua's honest thoughts on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. #TheFalconandtheWinterSoldier #MCU #DisneyPlus #AnthonyMacki...

Another Simple Favor is the sequel to the big 2018 surprises, A Simple Favor and sees the return of Paul Feig as well as Anna Kendrick and the (highly controversial) Blake Lively and considering it's taken 6 years to come out as well as the fact that this is released through streaming on Amazon Prime, I was interested in but also a little skeptical. Having now seen it, it's a pretty watchable sequ...

Even though it has taken me until months to get to doing this between personal stuff, rerecording this and another year end list twice and such, it's better late than never. Here is the official worst movies of 2024 as we go over the epictastic worst movies of last year that we're not only disappointing, but also frustraingly irritating and rough to get through. *Timecodes:* 0:00 - intro/video sta...

Jessica Jones was one of the best Marvel Cinematic Universe shows that had a lot of mystery and intrigue surrounding, along with great writing, characters and a performance that stands out greatly by the lovely Krysten Ritter. Here are my reviews of the Jessica Jones show (including a first time review for the final season - before it got cancelled in 2019). #JessicaJones #MarvelJessicaJones #Krys...

The Baby in the Basket is the latest low budget B-horror movie with a mix of nunsploitation throwback and this is one I went in pretty curious about but not knowing much. This isn't a great movie by any means necessary, but it was kinda adequate but has it's faults here and there. Let's hear Epictastic Joshua's Joshua Drake give his take on this one. #TheBabyintheBasketMovie #NunsploitationHorror...

Epictastic Joshua gives you guys three 2024 reviews in one with his thoughts on the Netflix film, "Badland Hunters", the Paramount+ TV movie, "The Thundermans Returns" and the Indian action film, "K*ll". #TheThundermansReturns #BadlandHunters #KillMovie *Timecodes:* 0:00 - intro/video starts 1:21 - Badland Hunters 6:21 - The Thundermans Return 12:44 - K*ll 23:23 - con...

Odessa is the latest little rock musical that was released on Hulu and it was also an attempt for Sadie Sink to yet again branch out her acting muscles from the world of Stranger Things. And while this one has gotten mixed results by some people, I am in the weird camp that found something here. Epictastic Joshua gives his thoughts and review for this little Hulu gem that is underrated. #odessamov...

Epictastic Joshua gives you some 2025 reviews of some movies that were released early the year (one he saw last year but waited until this year to review) and some that he either didn't have much to say on or some he wanted to do a solo review on it, but couldn't for time reasons. #HeartEyes #FMarryKillMovie #DenofThieves2Pantera #QueenoftheRing #WishYouWereHere #LucyHale #EmilyBettRickards #Gerar...

After the disappointing failure of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and how it nearly killed the Superman franchise for the course of 20 years, we go to 2006 and we were treated back on film with “Superman Returns” and here we have a movie that I initially hated at first on TV, but over the years I’ve grown to like this one for what it is. So let’s talk about how underrated and overhated Superman...

Well, its time once again to kick this movie right in its deserved place and to do it not only in Epictastic Joshua rant style, but this time where I can actually yell, scream, rant and rave and let out all frustrations and anger. Here is my revisited review or shall we say major extreme epic rant on one of the worst movies of all time, one of the worst comic book movies ever made and the worst Su...

Next up in this revisited review series leading up to the new Superman film, we take a look at the first ever female led superhero film and the attempted failed spinoff franchise at the goddess of Krypton herself. Considering the fact that I am not the biggest fan of this when I first saw this, I decided to give it a new look with the international cut and see if it gets better or if I still hate...

After the successes of the first two amazing Superman films, we now hit a downward spiral and essentially, the movie that started the downfall of the Man of Steel. But we answer the question: Is Superman III really as bad as people say it is? Or has it grown over time? Well, in this revisited review, Joshua Drake of Epictastic Joshua decides to go back and review this movie with better quality and...

With the release of the recent Final Destination film in the franchise that has been going on for 20 plus years, “Final Destination: Bloodlines”, its time to rank all sic of these films from worst to best in one of the most consistently good horror franchises. How will this ranking go? Watch Epictastic Joshua’s ranking to find out. #finaldestination #finaldestination2 #finaldestination3 #finaldest...

Continuing the live action franchise for the Man of Steel with the second film of the Christopher Reeve era with the second film, "Superman II" and this time, we go into the production history of it, as well as my thoughts on both cuts and why I find this to be a great sequel with both versions. This is also a continuation of my James Gunn's Superman review project. #supermanii1980 #supermanii #ch...

Finally getting around to tne live action films with the Superman franchise and we're starting off with the original era of films with Christopher Reeve and we're starting off with the 1978 original classic that while it is almost 50 years old, this is still one of the most influential films of all time and it's genre. #supermanthemovie #christopherreeve #genehackman #margotkidder #marlonbrando #s...

The John Wick franchise has been one of the bigger surprises of the past decade and Ballerina was certainly something that had my interest but also had my concerns between a fee reshoots and the ability of Ana de Armas being able to pull off a movie like this by herself. That being said, I can happily say that while this definitely has its issues with some obvious directing reshoots and not much o...

After a 14-year absence from the franchise after the fifth movie, the iconic Final Destination movies make their return with the sixth film. With a new directing team, new batch of characters, an interesting premise and an unfortunate passion, how does this one holds up compared to the original film and some of the sequels? Here’s Epictastic Joshua’s review of Final Destination: Bloodlines to talk...