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Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Movie Review: The Marvels
Well, Marvel is back, and this time, it’s specifically The Marvels, starring Captain Marvel (whose movie I reviewed in 2019), Ms. Marvel (aka Kamala Khan, whose story premiered on Disney Plus last year) and Professor Marvel Monica Rambeau (Carol’s adoptive … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man has always had a complicated history, even by comic book standards. Marvel has at several times run multiple Spider-Man comics series simultaneously, and due to the vagaries of the film industry, that has carried over into the movies. But … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 is (obviously) the latest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and one of the more highly anticipated ones, up there with No Way Home and Wakanda Forever. We left the Guardians on something of … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Dungeons & Dragons, the classic role-playing game perhaps most popularized in recent years by Stranger Things, has just released its new movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Well, technically, it releases on March 31, but Amazon Prime customers were … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Shazam! Fury of the Gods
The original Shazam! from 2019 is probably my favorite movie in the current iteration of DC superheroes, the DCEU. (Admittedly, I’ve only seen, like, half of them.) So I had high hopes for the sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods. … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Ant-Man is back for his third movie in the MCU, in which the Quantum Realm has grown even stranger, Janet is causing a lot of problems, Hank likes ants, Cassie has a suit, and Kang the Conqueror makes his big … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Avatar: The Way of Water
Well, it’s finally here. After 13 years, James Cameron has finally come out with the sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time (despite being briefly eclipsed by Avengers: Endgame): Avatar. Originally projected for release in 2014, Avatar 2 has … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Disney’s Strange World
So, this ended up being less of a review and more of a post-mortem, but this is where the post went when I decided to put my thoughts down. Disney has put out its latest theatrical release this week with … Continue reading
Movie Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the much-anticipated sequel to Marvel’s hit 2018 film Black Panther (and also the end of the MCU’s Phase Four). We return to a Wakanda that is reeling from the sudden death of King T’Challa and … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Black Adam
DC superhero films are doing something interesting and kind of Marvel-esque this year. They are releasing two films in the same series back-to-back. This week saw the premier of Black Adam, and just five months from now in March will … Continue reading
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