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Shazam! Fury of the Gods

By Michael Mazzacane | Mar 17, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

After the surprising success of the first Shazam! film, the prospect of more adventures of the former Marvel Family (now I guess Shazamily), from director David F. Sandberg, was something to hold onto with pandemic delays, VFX-related delays, and several regime changes at all levels of the corporate ladder. So now, finally, Shazam! Fury of […]

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Feb 20, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

The first two Ant-Man films were sweet, very family-friendly films that happened to be utterly pivotal to Avengers: Endgame. For the third installment, director Peyton Reed decided to raise the stakes, to make Scott Lang and the Pym-Van Dyne family’s next outing an epic Quantum Realm adventure, that would introduce one of Marvel’s most exciting […]

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Slumberland

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Nov 25, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Slumberland, the new, live-action movie take on Winsor McCay’s early 20th century classic “Little Nemo in Slumberland,” starring Jason Momoa and Marlow Barkley, was largely dismissed by critics when it was released on Netflix last week. While the movie is certainly deeply flawed, it’s also a surprisingly touching tale about a child dealing with changes […]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

By Ramon Piña | Nov 11, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

I have been trying to think about how to start this review for months. I mean, I just saw the movie yesterday but, there’s a lot of weight on this movie’s shoulders. The 30th film “has” to be a proper closing to phase four of the MCU which was partially seen as “underwhelming” just because […]

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One Piece Film: Red

By Zach Wilkerson | Nov 9, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

The 25th anniversary of “One Piece” has been a spectacular ride for fans of the series. The manga has entered its final saga, the anime has been firing on all cylinders, and now we cap the year off with the long-awaited release of One Piece Film: Red. I recently saw the film in IMAX with […]

Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons

By Henry Finn | Oct 25, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons is an animated film that loosely (very loosely) adapts Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason’s icon run starring the progeny of both Batman and Superman. Spoilers ahead. We are treated with an introduction to Superman’s backstory yet again, and yet this time with a small twist. As infant […]

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Black Adam

By Brian Salvatore | Oct 21, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

In 2006, Dwayne Johnson was first approached about playing Black Adam in a live-action film. For comics-context, this was likely during the time that “52” was appearing in comic shops. This is before “Final Crisis,” before the New 52, before Man of Steel; hell, it was the year that Superman Returns hit theaters. This film […]

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Dredd at 10

By Ryan Fitzmartin | Sep 21, 2022 | Longform, Movies

“America is an irradiated wasteland,” a voice gravely intones, as the camera swoops over the dystopia of Mega City One. This is the striking opening to Pete Travis and Alex Garland’s vicious, gritty and violently over the top Dredd. Set in a dystopia, fascist future where supercops function as judge, jury, and executioner, and gangs […]

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Samaritan

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Aug 30, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Samaritan, the new superhero film starring Sylvester Stallone that was released on Amazon Prime Video last weekend, started life as a screenplay by Bragi F. Schut, before becoming a Mythos Comics series created in collaboration with artist Marc-Oliver Frisch, and colorist Renzo Podesta. The movie, directed by Julius Avery (Overlord), follows Sam (Javon Walton), a […]

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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

By Robbie Pleasant | Aug 23, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

The Dragon Ball Super anime, movies, and manga have almost entirely focused on Goku and Vegeta, to the point where they’ve completely left the other characters behind in terms of plot and power level. But now, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero turns the focus to other characters, primarily Gohan and Piccolo, letting us catch up […]

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Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Aug 9, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Full disclosure: I am not a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan. It’s not that I hate them, it’s just that I never fell in love with them the way I did with other characters as a child; I’ve seen a few episodes from the various TV incarnations of the team over the years, and maybe […]

DC League of Super-Pets

By Matthew Vincenty | Aug 4, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Right off the bat, you might be asking yourself who is this movie for? Is it like the Krypto the Superdog cartoons and geared towards younger kids? Would it be more like The Lego Batman Movie and be an all ages comedy? I think this question is answered in the very first scene with the […]

Green Lantern: Beware My Power

By Michael Mazzacane | Jul 26, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Green Lantern: Beware My Power appears to show a newfound willingness by Warner Bros. Animation to expand outside of ‘Batman’ and ‘Justice League’ branded content, with the previous New 52-inspired continuity primarily built around ‘Batman’, ‘Justice League’, and ‘Teen Titans’ features. While 2/5 of the Tomorrowverse is currently Batman content, those other three feature a […]

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Thor: Love and Thunder

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Jul 8, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

No spoilers, but there are mid-credits and post-credits scenes, which both do an important job of setting up a possible an inevitable sequel. Believe it or not, my biggest takeaway after watching Thor: Love and Thunder — director and Korg actor Taika Waititi’s sequel to his 2017 hit Thor: Ragnarok — is that Waititi’s favorite […]

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Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Jun 14, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Now available on Netflix, Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness is a CG animated film from Belgian animation studio nWave Pictures, based on the graphic novels of the same name by cartoonist Chris Grine. It follows Chickenhare, who (as you might have guessed) is a part-chicken, part-hare, who embarks on an adventure to stop his […]

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Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | May 25, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

I really enjoyed the first two Teen Titans Go! movies, Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, and its DTV sequel Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans — they were delightfully irreverent self-parodies, stuffed to the brim with random DC nonsense (splat Atom anyone?) DC Super Hero Girls is also a fun show, and the two […]

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DC Showcase – Constantine: The House of Mystery

By Brian Salvatore | May 11, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

DC’s latest animated release is a quartet of shorts, focused on some of the lesser known, but beloved characters in the DC repertory. The shorts all work, to varying degrees, and run from 16-27 minutes in length. In general, this is an effective way to tell stories that, perhaps, couldn’t carry a standalone release. The […]

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | May 6, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

This review may contain minor spoilers. If you’re wondering though: there is an important mid-credits scene, and a post-credits scene that resembles an outtake. One of the most pretentious things a comic book fan can say about an adaptation is that “it’s not how I would’ve done it” — all adaptations are ultimately a person’s […]

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Paris, 13th District

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Apr 13, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

[Header artwork by Adrian Tomine] Based on several short stories by American cartoonist Adrian Tomine, French auteur Jacques Audiard’s latest film, Paris, 13th District (French: Les Olympiades, Paris 13e) is a black-and-white drama exploring sex and relationships in the current day City of Love. It follows the lives of Émilie (Lucie Zhang), a call center […]

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Morbius

By Michael Mazzacane | Apr 1, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

It’s never a good sign after leaving a movie that one of my first thoughts are “how did this get made?” Followed closely by “on a scale of Suicide Squad (2016) to Justice League (2017), where does this fall?” Those are what rattled around in my head as I walked back from seeing this movie […]

Jujutsu Kaisen 0

By Michael Mazzacane | Mar 23, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Based on the manga “Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School”, later known as “Jujutsu Kaisen” Vol. 0, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a feature length prequel to the anime series, Jujutsu Kaisen, produced by Studio MAPPA, based on the manga “Jujutsu Kaisen” by Gege Akutami. If that sounds confusing, that’s because it kind of is if you […]

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