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Black Widow

By | Jul 9, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Black Widow is a film out of time and place. Like its title character, it’s destined to sit at a strange spot in the Marvel Studios pantheon. Black Widow the character is a human assassin who often stands alongside gods to do battle with titans, killer robots, and the great powers of the cosmos. Black […]

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Major Grom: Plague Doctor

By | Jul 9, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Marvel have finally released the Black Widow movie, but it’s well worth remembering Russia has its own comic book and film industries, and perhaps coincidentally, this week saw the US release of Major Grom: Plague Doctor — reportedly the first feature film based on a Russian comic — on Netflix. Directed by Oleg Trofim, the […]

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Justice Society: World War II

By | May 18, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Justice Society: World War II, the newest DC Animated film, follows in the footsteps of a loose sense of continuity with an art style similar to Superman: Man of Tomorrow and is better off for it. The thick lines and bright colour pallet make it feel more connected to the comic book medium than the […]

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Ride or Die

By | Apr 20, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

The following impressions are based on the original Japanese audio, and contain minor spoilers. Directed by Ryūichi Hiroki, the newly released Japanese Netflix movie Ride or Die (Japanese: Kanojo, lit. “Her” or “Girlfriend”) — based on Ching Nakamura’s manga “Gunjō” (“Ultramarine”) — tells the story of Rei Nagasawa (Kiko Mizuhara), a cosmetic surgeon who goes […]

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Zack Snyder’s Justice League

By | Mar 23, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Alternative cuts to films do not exist in a vacuum, they exist in proximity to what came before. There is no Richard Donner cut of Superman II without the Richard Lester rendition. The dueling cuts of Stazione Termini by Vittorio De Sica without its U.S. counterpart Indiscretion of an American Wife overseen by David O. […]

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Flora & Ulysses

By | Feb 24, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

Directed by Lena Khan (The Tiger Hunter), Disney+’s latest movie exclusive, Flora & Ulysses, is a delightfully silly family adventure that bridges the gap between modern superhero flicks, and the slapstick family films of yesteryear. Based on the Newberry Award-winning novel by Kate DiCamillo (illustrated by K.G. Campbell), it tells the story of Flora (Matilda […]

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Days of the Bagnold Summer

By | Feb 19, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

This review was originally posted on June 9, 2020. It has been reposted here to mark the film’s release today in select theaters, and on demand, in the United States. Based on the graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, Days of the Bagnold Summer marks the directorial debut of British comedy actor Simon Bird, as well […]

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Josep

By | Jan 26, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

French cartoonist Aurel’s feature-length directorial debut, Josep, tells the story of Josep Bartolí (1910 – 1995), a Catalan illustrator and painter who was interned in France after the Spanish Civil War. Running a scant 75 minutes, the animated film covers his years in France until the Nazi occupation and his escape to Mexico, as well […]

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Wonder Woman 1984

By | Dec 28, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

It’s the most high profile of 2020 film releases to go the video-on-demand route, and set the precedent for WarnerMedia to move all their 2021 releases to a simultaneous theater and video-on-demand release on HBO Max. But will that be Wonder Woman 1984‘s legacy? Please note there will be spoilers throughout this review. If given […]

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Unknown Origins

By | Sep 1, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

Based on his own prose novel of the same name, director David Galán Galindo’s Unknown Origins (Orígenes secretos in its native Spain) is a new comedy thriller on Netflix, that follows hard-nosed detective David Valentin (Javier Rey), and slobby comic book retailer Jorge Elias (Brays Efe), as they team up to solve a series of […]

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The New Mutants

By | Aug 31, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

Since the COVID-19 pandemic came to the United States I have reviewed two other films based on comic book properties. First there was Bloodshot at the start of the present crisis and the films shift to be among the first films to try a premium video on demand release. After that was the sudden appearance […]

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Random Acts of Violence

By | Aug 24, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

Random Acts of Violence, fittingly, came out of nowhere. Until about a month ago I didn’t know the Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti comic had been adapted and now it is streaming on the horror themed service Shudder. Even more surprising is who was a primary force behind the film, Jay Baruchel, who: directed, co-wrote, […]

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Animal Crackers

By | Jul 27, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

In 2017, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus had their final performance. I have no nostalgia for the circus, only going once when I was an adult, but even then you could tell that things were beginning to end for that particular brand of entertainment. There were a lot of factors that led to […]

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Radioactive

By | Jul 21, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

“Persepolis” creator Marjane Satrapi’s latest film, Radioactive, stars Rosamund Pike as pioneering French physicist/chemist Marie Curie, and releases on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, July 24. Based on Lauren Redniss’s 2010 graphic novel “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout,” it is a bafflingly chaotic portrayal of Curie’s life that somehow […]

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The Old Guard

By | Jul 13, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

The Old Guard is an exercise in one-track filmmaking; it has one great concept which it does justice to, only to leave everything on the periphery shallow and predictable. It’s not a boring movie and it isn’t a bad film, but it’s probably not going to take you by surprise at all. The central quirk […]

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Valhalla

By | Jun 30, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

Directed by Fenar Ahmad (Darkland), Valhalla is a Danish film adaptation of the Carlsen Comics series created by Peter Madsen and Henning Kure in 1979. A gritty yet family-friendly take on Norse mythology, the movie focuses on Røskva (Cecilia Loffredo), a young farm girl who goes to Asgard to rescue her brother Tjalfe (Saxo Molthke-Leth), […]

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Extraction

By | Apr 28, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

Adapted from the graphic novel “Ciudad” written by Ande Parks and the Russo Bros. with art by Fernando León González, Extraction provides a surprisingly solid turn by Chris Hemsworth and a good example of what strong action storytelling looks like all the while falling into a pit of hollow and problematic narrative cliches. With how […]

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The Image Revolution

By | Apr 27, 2020 | Movies, Reviews

As we continue our celebration of the founding of Image Comics, we take a look at a documentary from Sequart and Respect Films detailing the founding of the publisher that aimed to be more than a publisher, but a place where creators could really flourish as entrepreneurs. Every creative type wants to avoid the Siegel […]

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