There’s something to be said about animated films revisiting classical themes. It gives writers and filmmakers the opportunities to explore, subvert, or maybe add a little bit of nuance to story elements we’ve grown familiar with. That’s what makes Netflix’s…
‘The Boys’ season three review: Superhero satire reaches its climax
In October 2006, the first issue of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s WildStorm comic series The Boys was released. Its concept, a group of antiheroes banding together to keep the egomaniacal superhero group known as the Seven in line, never…
The Ten Most Important Video Game Movies
Clickbait Title: The Video Game Movies That Are The Most Memorable for Being Very Bad, Very OK, Or Occasionally Pretty Good Video Game movies are historically not very good. There’s been long, arduous debates on whether or not video games…
The Boys 2×05 Review: Celebrity, the Media, and Reality Converge in “We Gotta Go Now”
After dropping the first three episodes of season two at once a couple of weeks ago, The Boys is on a weekly schedule at Amazon Prime, a format that has some folks of the fandom up in arms. For me,…
The Boys 2×04 Review: “Nothing Like It in the World” shows the importance of our similarities
“Nothing Like It in the World,” The Boys’ fourth episode of season two, takes time for some small human connections that are a welcome reprieve from the action of the past few episodes. A quick sing-a-long to “We Didn’t Start…
We Got To Chat with THOR: RAGNAROK star Karl Urban!
On the press tour for THOR: RAGNAROK, Karl Urban caught up with us in Miami to tell us all about his character, the fresh take on this third entry with a new director, the rivalry between the Aussies and Kiwis…
Review: Thor: Ragnarok continues to change the tone of Marvel films
Wildly ludicrous, insanely fun and exploding with a color pallet painted in devious amounts of vibrancy, Marvel Studios Thor: Ragnarok may not break the structure that the mega-studio conglomerate has constructed so far, but it certainly takes a battering ram to it’s…