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The Batman

By Michael Mazzacane | Mar 3, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

There is something off about the Batman, a recognition of something darker that underlies the self-deprecating jab in Batman Begins about how “a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues.” That gnawing tension runs through Matt Reeves’s new film, aptly titled, The Batman. It slowly walks out of the shadows in the […]

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Marry Me

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Feb 15, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

One of the most unlikely comic book movies of the year, She-Hulk director Kat Coiro’s romantic comedy Marry Me — based on the webcomic by Bobby Crosby and (an unfortunately uncredited) Remy “Eisu” Mokhtar — features Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson in the tale of a similarly unexpected pairing: Kat Valdez (Lopez), a pop star, […]

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Catwoman: Hunted

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

After nearly 15 years of DC Universe Animated Original Movies, Catwoman finally has her own feature solo film, and it’s an anime movie co-starring Batwoman no less, directed by Shinsuke Terasawa from a script by Young Justice co-creator Greg Weisman. Like many animated DTV DC films, it’s a slightly undercooked, 80-minute affair, but still enough […]

Lupin III: The First

By Elias Rosner | Jan 17, 2022 | Movies, Reviews

Contrary to its title, it is neither an origin story for the gentleman thief nor is it even set particularly far back in his continuity. Instead, it is referring to what the film is i.e. the first of its kind: a fully computer-animated Lupin III film.

Spider-Man: No Way Home

By Michael Mazzacane | Dec 20, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Smashing box office records, even by pre-COVID standards, it seems like everyone in the U.S. will have seen this by the time this review goes live. What follows is a short spoiler-free review of Spider-Man: No Way Home limited to the stuff you’ve seen in trailers. After the break, however, is a full-on spoiler-filled review […]

The Summit of the Gods

By Elias Rosner | Dec 13, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Le Sommet des Dieux is a French/Luxembourgian animated film adaptation of the Japanese manga 神々の山嶺 (Kamigami no Itadaki) by Jiro Taniguchi, which I watched with an English dub produced by its American distributor Netflix. It focuses on a mountaineering magazine photographer named Fukumachi on the hunt for famed Everest scaler George Mallory’s fabled lost camera, […]

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Nov 22, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Five-and-a-half years ago, Paul Feig directed an all-female Ghostbusters reboot, which included the original surviving cast in cameo roles as new characters. Afterlife, which was greenlit after its predecessor proved to be a box office disappointment, is a thoroughly different beast: helmed by Jason Reitman, the son of original director Ivan Reitman himself, it centers […]

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Eternals

By Alexander Manzo | Nov 10, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

This will be a spoiler-free review. The latest film out of Marvel Studios is Eternals, which had a lot of hype and even more questions about who these new characters are to join the MCU or what they are doing on Earth in the first place. The movie’s premise is a group of immortal beings […]

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My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission

By Michael Mazzacane | Nov 1, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Note: This review is based off a screening of the English subtitled version of the film. By the third movie it is obvious there is a built-in audience for a product-franchise, even more so when it’s “My Hero Academia” who on the strength of its anime adaptation by Bones became one of the biggest Manga-Anime […]

Dune

By Frank Skornia | Oct 26, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

After what seems like years of speculation and waiting, the release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is finally upon us. Dune is one of those titles that seems to always show up on lists of impossible or difficult to film, and boy have there have been attempts. French filmmaker, Alejandro Jodorowsky, notoriously tried and failed to adapt […]

Injustice

By Michael Mazzacane | Oct 20, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Normally after watching an abysmal failure like Injustice the question of “why” comes up. Why does this exist? The economic logic that satisfies this question fails to completely explain the shortcomings of this film but begins shine a light on them. To put the question of quality aside for a second, it makes all the […]

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Venom: Let There Be Carnage

By Michael Mazzacane | Oct 6, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

The first Venom appeared to have been released from a time capsule dated 2005. Here was a superhero film that outside of leads Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams had none of the pretense or associated quality that has developed around the genre in the past decade and a half. It had a titular single by […]

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No Time to Die

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Oct 6, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

No Time to Die, the 25th official James Bond movie, is a film with a lot to prove: it’s been six years since Spectre (meaning it’s been nine since the last good film, Skyfall), and the world has changed greatly in the meantime, meaning the pressure on Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing to be […]

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Ninjababy

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Sep 21, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Based on Inga H. Sætre’s graphic novel “Fallteknikk (Fall Technique),” Ninjababy is a Norwegian comedy-drama that tells the hilarious and poignant story of Rakel Pedersen (Kristine Kujath Thorp), a graphic design school dropout who discovers she is six months pregnant. Too late to have an abortion, Rakel looks for someone who can adopt the sneaky […]

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Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Sep 10, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Before we begin, a few notes: I have not read the “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” manga, or watched the anime. (If you’re interested in a look at the whole comic, I recommend clicking here.) This review is written from the perspective doubtless shared by many of the viewers who propelled the film to become […]

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Sep 3, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

This is a spoiler-free review, but we will disclose that there is a mid-credits and a post-credits scene. Over the past decade or so, Marvel Studios have produced consistently good-to-great superhero films, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings — the studio’s first with an Asian writer/director and lead cast — is no […]

Five Thoughts on The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf

By Laura Merrill | Aug 27, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Good morrow, peasants, and welcome to our review of Netflix’s animated prequel film, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. The bottom line is, if you enjoyed the series, you’ll enjoy this movie too. It captures The Witcher’s distinct tone, reinforces its themes, and expands our understanding of Geralt’s present through Vesemir’s past. I’ve said this […]

The Suicide Squad

By Michael Mazzacane | Aug 9, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Having seen The Suicide Squad twice now, first on HBO Max and later in theaters, one question rang out and began to cohere the hundreds swirling in my mind: how did this get made? Funnily enough that is the same question I asked after seeing the 2016 film. How did writer-director James Gunn convince Warner […]

Batman: The Long Halloween – Part Two

By Christopher Egan | Aug 3, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Fans who have been keeping track know that the animation department for Warner Bros. and DC Comics has, for the most part, been doing a fantastic job with their animated features for over a decade. They have tackled new material, continuations of past iterations and, like this film, adaptations of beloved arcs from the comics. […]

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Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

By Michael Mazzacane | Jul 27, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Origin stories are tricky even with the straightforward narrative of becoming. In the wrong hands they devolve into explainers for how iconic accoutrement are obtained and create the title persona and not emotional narratives that explain character. Some films are efficient about this like in Batman Begins. Other movies decide that we need to know […]

Old

By Michael Mazzacane | Jul 27, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

After concluding his Eastrail 177 Trilogy in 2019, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan returns to the world of comics with a loose adaptation Swiss comic “Sandcastle” by writer Pierre Oscar Levy and artist Frederik Peeters transforming their comic into a new film called Old. Perhaps the biggest twist of the film is there isn’t really one. […]

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