Month: April 2019

THIS REVIEW IS 110% SPOILER FREE, SO KEEP READING!!           Well, we’re here.  We’re in the Endgame now.  After eleven years and twenty one movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally come to this.  Avengers: Endgame is the finale of one of cinema’s greatest journeys and answers all the burning questions that have plagued us for the last year and ties up the last eleven years of cinematic world building. The result…

      Guillermo del Toro made two Hellboy movies back in 2004 and 2008, both of which are very good movies that understood its characters and understood the world they were in.  However, due to neither film making a lot of money domestically – the first one making $59 million, the second one making $75 million, respectively – Hollywood decided to not let del Toro finish out a trilogy and instead wait eleven years to…

      After 2017’s It was a critical and financial success, Stephen King adaptations immediately became the hottest properties in all of Hollywood.  So rather than take a lesser-known property to remake, like Graveyard Shift, or a film that was poorly received upon its initial release, like Sleepwalkers or Dreamcatcher, the first film to follow the It-hype was Pet Sematary, a remake of the 1989 horror classic which, for this critic, is one of the most unsettling horror movies…

        Shazam is a comic book character I knew nothing about going into the film.  I never read comics as a kid, but before heading into a new superhero origin story, I usually have a basic understanding of our hero before I enter the theater.  I was completely clueless on Shazam, to the point where I wasn’t even aware he was initially called Captain Marvel until Marvel sued DC for the name…