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Extraction 2

By | Jun 27, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

Action heroes never truly die, and despite the ending of the first Extraction film, Chris Hemsworth is back again as Tyler Rake. The world’s greatest expert on getting people out of dangerous places is back. This Rake is smashing his way through a Georgian prison. For fans of the first film, Extraction 2 provides all […]

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Stan Lee

By | Jun 21, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

On paper, the idea of a documentary about Stan Lee’s life narrated by archive recordings of the Man himself seemed like a terrible idea, for several reasons. Firstly, the idea of stitching together various interviews (where he sounds jarringly different at times because of the ages they were recorded at) does not seem like it […]

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The Flash

By | Jun 19, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

Note: When discussing the character of Barry Allen, I will use he/him pronouns. When considering the performance of Ezra Miller, I will use they/them. Just to get this out of the way at the top, this isn’t really the space for me to critique the promotional and commercial system that justifies the sale of Ezra […]

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

By | Jun 9, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

Picking up seven years after Bumblebee, this second prequel in the Transformers series is looking to stand on its own while also bridging what is an effective standalone movie and the rest of the series to the Michael Bay era, and it is mostly successful in that endeavor. Some mild spoilers ahead. Transformers: Rise of […]

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

By | Jun 5, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

Across the Spider-Verse is, almost obviously, excellent. It’s a film that genuinely challenges itself visually, consistently working to surprise every demographic placed in front of it. This is the kind of story that is vital to the generative lifeblood of animation, even when it concedes to tropes or stacks its plate too high. You can […]

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Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom

By | May 24, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

Note: this review uses names provided by Netflix’s English subtitles, instead of the French transcription. Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, the fifth live-action “Asterix” film, and the first since 2012, was released on Netflix last weekend. Directed by and starring Guillaume Canet as Asterix, with Gilles Lellouche as Obelix, Vincent Cassel as Julius Caesar, […]

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

By | May 8, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

Have you ever cried because of a raccoon? Because you will. This review contains minor spoilers. James Gunn’s third and final installment of Guardians of the Galaxy may be the best movie of the saga. It focuses on the story of Rocket, whose past we get to see while the team tries to save him […]

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Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham

By | Apr 4, 2023 | Movies, Reviews

Something evil lurks in the shadows, a greater horror than any Batman has ever faced. After decades of facing a plethora of horrors on screen, Batman finally finds himself locked in battle against H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Christopher Berkley and Sam Liu direct this adaptation of Mike Mignola, Richard Pace and Troy Nixey’s comic, with […]

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Shazam! Fury of the Gods

By | 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 | 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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