Posts Tagged ‘Aquaman’
Film Review – Insidious: The Red Door
With Insidious: The Red Door (2023), the Insidious franchise has now reached its fifth installment. This is surprising, given that it never quite got off its feet since the 2010 original. While I’m not the biggest fan of that first film, admittedly, director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell did catch lightning in…
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Film Review – Malignant
Malignant (2021) is the kind of horror flick tailor made for the midnight-movie crowds. With its campy tone, over the top body horror, and ridiculous story, it exudes the kind of “no holding back” attitude that many fans of the genre will gleefully embrace. There…
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Episode 66 – Zack Snyder’s Justice League
For this episode of the podcast, we re-evaluate Zack Snyder’s Justice League in the context of the newly released four-hour director’s cut, now available on HBO Max. We also discuss which concept albums we’d like to see as feature-length movie adaptations. For our streaming homework,…
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Film Review – Zack Snyder’s Justice League
We can’t talk about Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) without talking about the story that led up to its release. While in the middle of initial production in 2017, Snyder suffered a terrible family tragedy. Not having the energy to continue working, Snyder decided to walk away.…
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Film Review – Shazam!
In the realm of superhero films, DC and Warner Brothers still have a long way to go to catch up to the success that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has established and fortified. But lately, there seems to have been an interesting change of pace coming…
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Top 15 Films of 2018 – Allen’s Picks
The beauty of cinema is how it works as a reflection of our society – our hopes, our fears, and our desires. Films are a timestamp of who were, who we are, and what we could possibly be. A thousand years from now, people can…
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Film Review – Aquaman
The DC Cinematic Universe has had – at best – an uneven rollout. Outside of the fantastic Wonder Woman (2017), most of the connected films have not satisfied in the way many may have hoped. It’s hard to say what the future will bring for…
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Film Review – Justice League
With all its spectacle and bluster, Justice League opens on a low-quality shot designed like it’s coming from someone’s phone. Encompassing the shot is Superman (Henry Cavill), before his death in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, a boy asks him what his favorite thing…
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