Superhero

Prologue One of the grandest moments in film history came to a head last week, shifting the cinematic landscape forever. Careers were ended. Lives were changed. In short, the most significant event in the medium…

It’s hard to find someone who wouldn’t know what the Superman emblem looks like these days. However, over the decades, Superman has had his fair share of critics who are frustrated with his seemingly unmatched…

Similar to its leading lady, Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey (2020) was dealt a shit hand. David Ayer’s Suicide Squad (2016) is a music video masquerading as a feature film, a two-hour movie trailer full of undeliverable promises. And…

With Joker being such a blatant homage to the works of Martin Scorsese and other filmmakers that told scuzzy New York dramas in the 1970s and 1980s, it’s interesting timing that Scorsese himself, while on…

Two years ago, Spider-Man: Homecoming gave us a true taste as to what this universe’s bleak Spider-Man had to offer. That’s right, I say ‘bleak’ because the character wasn’t Spider-Man; the movie changed too many…

It is the end of an era. After 19 years, 12 films, 2 Phoenix Sagas, and only 1 Wolverine, The X-Men franchise is finished. With Dark Phoenix, the X-Men prequels wrap up the franchise before…

Seeing Tony Stark make a suit out of metal scraps seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it? Since 2008, our supreme overlords at Disney — with a little help from Paramount in the beginning…

Shazam! is the first comic book movie in a while to lean full tilt into its source material’s cheesiness. While Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy has been noted for its campiness, it has nothing on Shazam!. This isn’t bad,…

With Endgame coming down the pipeline and millions of tickets getting sold at a rate faster than one person can create another curious meme of Ant-Man crawling up Thanos’ ass — to those still waiting in…

Guardians of the Galaxy meets Independence Day. That is the most accurate and most concise way to sum up Captain Marvel. The movie is an edgy, space-thrill ride from start to finish. It maintains its…

It’s been quite the winding road to get to this point, hasn’t it? M. Night Shyamalan returns once again to finish arguably one of the most ambitious and fascinating trilogies in Hollywood with Glass, the follow-up…

It always feels like animation that isn’t the standard 3D, CGI look that Pixar and Disney throws at us a few times a year is often left behind, as if it’s inaccessible like some pretentious…

Years after it went off air, Entourage finally got its wish: we now have a REAL Aquaman movie. I know Vinny Chase, E, Turtle, and Johnny Drama are somewhere in the ether offering a toast (or seven)…

Spider-Man films have a history of being hit or miss. As long as Sony as it at the wheel, the quality of these films will continue to vary across the board. When Sony first announced…

Nobody asked for Once Upon a Deadpool. There was no need for Once Upon a Deadpool. However, Disney takes over Fox in less than a month and so the studio, like Deadpool in the first…

Venom is one of the down-right coolest comic book characters of all time. His status as an icon is almost to the level of villains such as the Joker and Lex Luthor. After a botched…