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The Suicide Squad

By | 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 […]

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Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

By | 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 […]

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Old

By | 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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Who Are You, Charlie Brown?

By | Jul 13, 2021 | Movies, Reviews

You can’t think of certain holidays without thinking of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang.  What is Halloween without the Great Pumpkin? What is Christmas without the soundtrack of “Linus and Lucy” in the background?  It’s no surprise, then, that there was such outrage when Apple TV+ acquired the exclusive rights to the Peanuts TV […]

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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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