REVIEW – “Black Adam”: Another Dark, Mindless Turn for DC’s Cinematic Footprint
Long gestating in WB/DC’s big screen coffers since 2014, if not longer, there seemed to be a mountain of promise in crafting a solo origin film for an antihero with…
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REVIEW – “Don’t Worry Darling”: An Anxious, Incomplete View of Utopia
Perhaps it was for the better that Warner’s marketing for their one remaining cross with adult sophistication on marquees this fall sustained a perpetual ambiguity. And that might be just…
REVIEW – “DC League of Super Pets”: Comic Franchise Gone to the Dogs, Open for Families
Certain summer films can represent a microcosm of cultural phenomena, often for better or worse, wide-reaching, niche, focused, or inconsistent. With all its hype, and what its marketing tried to…
REVIEW – “The Batman”: Dark Knight Goes Full Noir in a Cinematic Void
In the ever-broadening, cutthroat and competitive atmosphere that is the comic book movie, DC Comics has remained on rather sluggish ground trying to best Marvel’s universe when warranted. In 2022,…
REVIEW – “The Matrix Resurrections”: Wachowski Celebrates the Meaning of Reunion with Franchise Jumpstart
Take one step past the thick green curtain, and you may be in one of two realms. One with witches, or another involving the bending of reality if it were…