Tag Archives: MCU

‘Badlands’ second Disney-era ‘Predator’ movie, second new franchise best

Predator: Badlands is a movie, a real one, the kind you grew up hearing about. It’s got everything – constant action, adventure to far-away lands, coming of age, complex relationships between technology and nature, rugged individualism weighed against a communal … Continue reading

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New ‘Superman’ flies low under a long shadow

After 12 excruciating years, Warner Bros. has given up the ghost and paved over the muddy, miserable Man of Steel with a sunny, cheerful new Superman movie, with James Gunn as writer, director and producer and affixed as the chief … Continue reading

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‘Renfield’ stays in toxic relationship with Marvel movies

2/10 Renfield ranges from boring to completely unwatchable aesthetically, and it expresses an incredible hatred of its own characters that’s deeply angering to watch play out. New Orleans, present day- After traveling the world, sucking as much as he can … Continue reading

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‘All Quiet’ adaptation fails in every way, but especially upward

2/10 Netflix’ first-ever German language adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front leads the charge of international prestige movies in 2022, releasing pre-packaged with the announcement of its submission for the 95th Academy Awards as a Laser-accurate adaptation of … Continue reading

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Wakanda long ago, ‘Wakanda Forever’

7/10 Everyone in the world has been through a lot since Black Panther showed us a magical dream of uncolonized Africa in February 2018. Four years later in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, that dream is tainted by real-life tragedy among … Continue reading

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