• May 2, 2025
• Action, Adventure, At Home

As the sturdy oak of the Avengers has been logged for all its worth, literally being referenced with a museum piece in this latest Marvel film (government villain Valentina...

• July 2, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

It’s hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice, and we all know that they have tried again (and again) with Spider-Man reboots. Any regular reader knows that I...

• July 2, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Two things before we begin: 1. If you haven’t yet seen Avengers: Endgame, you might want to do so before checking out Spider-Man: Far from Home, as the events...

• June 7, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Clearly trying to capitalize on the “end of an era” marketing that helped propel Avengers: Endgame into the box-office – and favorable-review – stratosphere, but instead making the problems...

• May 13, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Tom Hardy stars as Eddie Brock, a recently fired, renegade investigative reporter who’s known for thumbing his nose at authority and who’s probing the medical research being conducted by...

• April 24, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Avengers: Endgame doesn’t have much faith in the resilience of humanity. Five years after Thanos (Josh Brolin) made half of Earth’s (and the universe’s) population disintegrate into ash with...

• January 27, 2018
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

Honestly, I was grinning from start to finish. It’s light-hearted, action-packed, funny, smart and – unlike so many recent films of its ilk – wonderfully human. The characters’ problems...

• August 7, 2015
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Starting on a gentle, note of wide-eyed fantasy, I was thinking to myself that this latest reboot of Fantastic Four harkened back to an almost-Spielbergian earnestness, down to a...

• July 25, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Mystery

There has been so much fuss about how Sky Captain was made, that you go into the film with pre-set expectations. We have all seen CGI animation in film,...

• February 22, 2014
• Action, Animation, At Home, Television

I’ve always been puzzled about the intended audience of comic book cartoon shows. I mean, they’re animated and usually air when and where kids can find them, but they’re...

• October 16, 2013
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

The Mostly Unfabulous Life of Ethan Green is based on a comic strip that is so widely read that I’ve never even heard of it. Judging from the sample...

• July 11, 2008
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

Back in 2004, director Guillermo del Toro helmed the first Hellboy movie to a moderate level of acclaim and fanboy delight. But back then, he was just the sorta-known...