It’s difficult to remember a time when a movie based on a Marvel comic wasn’t a guaranteed success but that was the prospect facing vampire action movie Blade. Comic book movies were not the sure thing they have become today … Continue reading Blade (1998) Review
Shang-Chi had its work cut out for it as a Marvel Movie. While Black Widow ended the stories and strands left by Avengers: Endgame (while introducing some potential new characters) Shang-Chi is the first of Marvel’s new “phase” and setting … Continue reading Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Review
DC seem to have made the decision to scrap their shared universe and focus on telling good stories in stand-alone movies with their vast array of fantastic characters. To this end James Gunn has been allowed to create the Suicide … Continue reading The Suicide Squad (2021) Review
You have to be very selective when making comic book movies. With characters like Wonder Woman, that have been around so long that there is a lot of aspects to her character that work well on-screen and a lot which … Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Review
Whether it was an official decision or not, the fact that Warner Bros is moving away from a shared DC Cinematic Universe is a good one. This is because it gives the movies starring the DC characters the room to breathe … Continue reading Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020) Review
The Joker is one of the most iconic villains in comic book, and subsequently movie, history. He is also a character that benefits most from mystery and very little backstory. This was seen best with Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, … Continue reading Joker (2019) Review
The Mask was ahead of it’s time in many ways. It was, of course, at the height of Jim Carrey’s comedic purple patch but there is more to it than that. It utilised decent CGI for the early nineties, was a … Continue reading The Mask (1994) Review
I may be in the minority here but I like my Spider-Man films to have some Spider-Man in them. Watching Far From Home, you’d struggle to believe this was the second solo outing for the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the … Continue reading Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Review
This review does not contain spoilers for Avengers: Endgame! Avengers: Endgame manages to do what many other franchises and long-running television series fail to do; perfectly end a captivating saga. The Marvel Studios movies have been 21 films and eleven years … Continue reading Avengers: Endgame (2019) Review
I don’t like superhero origin movies. There have been so many over the years that it is fairly clear what is going to happen and how. The formula for an effective origin movie is so well-worn that even the most recent … Continue reading Shazam! (2019) Review
