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DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS MOVIE REVIEW Benedict Cumberbatch returns as the Master of the Mystical Arts (but not the Sorcerer Supreme…that’s Wong now) and boy does he have his horribly injured hands full. While attending the wedding of his ex, Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) a giant monster starts tearing up the town, […]

MORBIUS MOVIE REVIEW Sony’s grip on Marvel characters extends largely to Spider-Man adjacent villains and anti-heroes and they continue down this ‘MCU is not directly involved’ film path with Morbius. Jared Leto plays Michael Morbius, a brilliant scientist who is dying from a rare blood disease who is determined to crack it, to help both […]

THE BATMAN MOVIE REVIEW A new version of the Batman mythos has been launched by director Matt Reeves (The Planet of the Apes trilogy) with Robert Pattinson donning the cowl and cape. It’s year two for Bats and he’s pretty pissed off. There is no ‘Bruce Wayne’ persona other than being known as a completely […]

HAWKEYE SERIES REVIEW It’s Christmas time in NYC and all poor Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) wants to do is get home and be with his wife and kids. But here comes this teenager, Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), to mess up his holiday plans. She’s a very young woman who during the process of trying to stop […]

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME MOVIE REVIEW In retrospect, it seems like it would have made more sense to record this entirely as a spoiler review. Because those anxious to avoid spoilers aren’t looking at ANYTHING that even potentially could spoil something about “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and the rest of you already saw it. Some […]

SUPER CROOKS SERIES REVIEW It seems crime doesn’t pay, even when you have superpowers. Johnny Bolt has made a habit of getting in and out of prison ever since an unfortunate “mishap” caused by his electricity powers meant that he could never be a hero. With his girlfriend, Kasey, Johnny lives stuck as a petty […]

DOOM PATROL SEASON 3 SERIES REVIEW Time to get weird again as we dive into the third season of HBO Max’s adaptation of DC Comics’ “Doom Patrol”. After having its second season cut short due to the pandemic, the new batch of episodes starts off with wrapping up what was left hanging last year before […]

ETERNALS MOVIE REVIEW Director/co-writer Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) unexpectedly joins the MCU to take on one of the most sprawling, esoteric, world-building tales in Marvel’s canon, the story of the group of immortals called Eternals, originally created by the legendary Jack Kirby. The ensemble of superpowered beings guides and watches over humanity, but only intervenes with [&#82...

MY HERO ACADEMIA: WORLD HEROES’ MISSION MOVIE REVIEW One of the world’s most popular anime series has returned with another thrilling, well-animated, and definitely canonical movie.  The plot follows Izuku Midoriya (Justin Briner/Daiki Yamashita) and his fellow U.A. classmates as they join the world’s Pro-Heroes to stop a new threat. A mysterious terrorist group called […]

WHAT IF… SERIES REVIEW We grew up reading those wacky “What if…” comics from Marvel that speculated sometimes seriously about alternate worlds where events happened differently in the comics, like ‘What if Captain America had not vanished during WWII?’ and sometimes not so seriously like with ‘What if the Avengers defeated everybody?’. This new anima...

THE SUICIDE SQUAD MOVIE REVIEW James Gunn slides on over to pick up the reigns at DC with this second “Suicide Squad” film and the anticipation level, for those of us who dig Gunn’s whole thing, loved his “Guardians of the Galaxy” films AND his pre-big budget crazier fare, was sky high. His version of […]

HOW I BECAME A SUPERHERO MOVIE REVIEW In a world where mutant abilities are commonplace, you’re just as likely to meet a person who uses fire powers to heat up a bowl of soup as meeting a superhero. Or supervillain, for that matter. Yet when superhero liaison, Detective Moreau (Pio Marmaï) and his partner, Schaltzmann […]

LOKI SERIES REVIEW The third of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ tie-in shows is here as Tom Hiddleston returns as Loki. Yes, he died in “Avengers: Infinity War”. But if you were paying attention in “Avengers: Endgame”, that earlier version of Loki who was captured and still a big-bad right at the end of the […]

JUPITER’S LEGACY SERIES REVIEW Shortly after his father’s suicide in 1929, triggered by Black Tuesday, former businessman Sheldon Sampson travels to an uncharted island, where he, his brother Walter, and four others receive superpowers. Sheldon dons a suit, cape, and the moniker Utopian, and with his newly obtained abilities and his super friends at his […]

THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER SERIES REVIEW The second of the Disney+ Marvel shows is here and although it wasn’t quite the watercooler discussion show the previous miniseries was, many argue it’s the superior of the two. The six-episode series follows, in the wake of Steve Rogers’ extreme age jump at the end of […]

THUNDER FORCE MOVIE REVIEW In 1983, the fate of the world was shaken when a blast of space radiation caused all psychopaths to turn into metahumans. After these evil Miscreants killed her parents, Emily (Octavia Spencer) vowed to one day create the powers she needed in order to fight against the terror that took her […]

WANDAVISION SERIES REVIEW Continuing where the MCU films left off, this first in a series of Disney+ mini series follows Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) as she lives an idyllic and literally sitcom life with her formerly dead partner Vision (Paul Bettany). It soon becomes clear (like, immediately, if you’ve watched “Endgame”) that something is way […]

WE CAN BE HEROES MOVIE REVIEW It’s been almost two decades since Robert Rodriguez’s deep psychological drama “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D” changed the way we look at cinema. We were left with some massive lingering questions though: Is the Planet Drool a part of the real world now? How was Mr. […]