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BLACK ADAM

October 21, 2022 By 2 Comments

BLACK ADAM

Until now, BATMAN VS SUPERMAN has been the nadir of DC’s excursions into cinema. Now it has lost even that paltry distinction with the onset of BLACK ADAM, a film with much sound and fury that signifies nothing. Not even Dwayne Johnson, one of the most charismatic movie stars working today can right this shipwreck,… Read More »

Tagged With: DC Comics, DCEU, egregious plot device, Middle East, superhero, western cultural imperialists, wizard

THE BATMAN

March 19, 2022 By 4 Comments

THE BATMAN

One thing you can say about THE BATMAN without fear of contradiction is that there is a lot of it. Clocking in at three hours or so, it packs in enough plot for a trilogy, as though all concerned fretted that this might be their only shot at the rebooted DC franchise. Fear not, though.… Read More »

Tagged With: Batman, Gotham City, motocycle, open refrigerator, political corruption, superhero, vigilante justice

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

December 17, 2021 By Leave a Comment

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

There is such a delicious and perfectly logical, surprise in SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME, that it alone would be worth the investment of your time and your money to see it in a theater.  Fortunately, there is so much more to enjoy as Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and those in his orbit face a future… Read More »

Tagged With: college admissions, mirror dimension, multiverse, sequel, Statue of Liberty, superhero

BRIGHTBURN

May 27, 2019 By Leave a Comment

BRIGHTBURN

What we have here is a dynamite premise fumbled in the execution. BRIGHTBURN gives us a strange visitor from another planet crashing to Earth as a baby and taken in by a good-hearted, infertile farm couple (Elizabeth Banks, David Denman) in the midst of baby fever. As with that other story of an infant from… Read More »

Tagged With: adolescence, adoption, alien visitor, horror, superhero

AVENGERS: ENDGAME

April 26, 2019 By Leave a Comment

AVENGERS: ENDGAME

The stakes have been raised so many times with event flicks that, when approaching one, hope is always tempered with experience about what to expect, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson. With AVENGERS: ENDGAME, though, hope wins out. The spectacle is everything it should be, and the story, of necessity a meandering thing, is nonetheless sustained by… Read More »

Tagged With: Marvel Universe, MCU, sequel, superhero, time travel

SHAZAM!

April 6, 2019 By Leave a Comment

SHAZAM!

There is a wondrously cheesy sincerity to SHAZAM! that makes its weak spots irrelevant. It is, in many ways, as pure of heart as its champion, and just as giddy about discovering that magic is real. Plus, there’s that flaming Santa running for his life during the climactic final face-off between good and evil.

Tagged With: daddy issues, DC, flaming Santa, foster care, pure of heart, superhero

GLASS

January 18, 2019 By Leave a Comment

GLASS

We learn many things in M. Night Shyamalan’s GLASS.  We learn that the Philadelphia police department has an abysmal response time. We learn that a fully staffed psychiatric hospital has only two orderlies its employ. And we learn that James McAvoy still cries more manfully than any other actor working today.  Possibly ever. He is… Read More »

Tagged With: mental asylum, multiple personalities, psychiatric hospital, sequel, superhero

BLACK PANTHER

February 18, 2018 By 3 Comments

BLACK PANTHER

BLACK PANTHER is the standard by which all other superhero movies this year will be measured.  Maybe this decade.  Showcasing the expected show-stopping special effects, a rich mythology from the Marvel comic on which it is based, and plenty of rousing action that is both imaginative (weaponized rhinoceroses) and genuinely suspenseful, it gets the most… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, Marvel Universe, MCU, superhero, vibranium, Wakanda, weaponized rhioseros

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

May 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR asks the cinematic question “What would happen if we took a whole passel of superheroes from the Marvel Comic universe and tossed them together into one film?”  But wait, what if we pitted them against one another over a fundamental difference of opinion about ethics, and then added a dash (or… Read More »

Tagged With: accountability, global politics, guilt, loyalty, Marvel Comics, sequel, superhero

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

March 25, 2016 By 5 Comments

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

For most of BATMAN V SUPERMAN’s bloviated pretension, I was merely bored. This half-baked idea studded with ponderous pronouncements, shockingly sedate action sequences, and the simulacrum of serious philosophical inquiry plodded along, weighed down by an overstuffed plot and an underdeveloped narrative. But when we arrived at a meticulous recreation of the deposition from the… Read More »

Tagged With: bathtub splash and tickle, comic book, DC Comics, franchise, Justice League, nightmare, superhero

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