Best. Marvel. Film. Ever. Or yet, at least. Which is saying a lot. In the aftermath of the destruction in The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Avengers: Age of Ultron, as well as a mission gone awry early in this film, the United Nations prepares to ratify accords that would place the Avengers under… Read More Review: Captain America: Civil War
It will thrill you. It will make you laugh. It will break your heart. What it won’t do is disappoint you. Without spoiling things, it’s the story of Finn (John Boyega) and Rey (Daisy Ridley), how they meet Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), and how they come to oppose the First Order… Read More Review: Star Wars ep. : The Force Awakens
Wolverine returns after a four year absence from the big screen in a well-made effort that’s solid rather than spectacular. After the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, Logan aka Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is living alone in the Canadian wilderness and having nightmares about former teammate Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who died at his hands… Read More Review: The Wolverine
Best. Superman. Movie. Ever. Superman has been rebooted for the 21st century, but he’s still recognizably Superman. Sent to Earth from a doomed Krypton by his birth parents Jor-El and Lara (Russell Crowe, Ayelet Zurer), Kal-El is adopted by the Kents (Kevin Costner, Diane Lane). As an adult, Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) engages in anonymous,… Read More Review: Man of Steel
Iron Man 3 has a ’60s pulp spy novel vibe wed to irreverent black humor, giving it a different flavor than its predecessors. But it works. Oh, does it work. In the wake of his near-death experience in The Avengers, Tony Stark aka Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) is obsessively struggling with PTSD and a… Read More Review: Iron Man 3
The Canadian supernatural drama Lost Girl, which recently returned for a third season on Showcase in Canada and Syfy in the US, has consistently had positive portrayals of bisexual and lesbian cis (meaning non-trans) women. Its main character, Bo, is a bisexual succubus who is part of a wider community of supernatural beings known as… Read More Lost Girl’s Trans Fail
How does The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey compare to The Lord of the Rings trilogy? It’s “a lesser son of greater sires,” a disappointment based on the lofty expectations set by its predecessors. Sixty years prior to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) visits hobbit… Read More Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
If you thought filmmaker Christopher Nolan couldn’t best The Dark Knight, you were wrong. Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is retired as Batman and lives as a recluse. When a new reign of terror is brought to Gotham City by the relentless Bane (Tom Hardy), Wayne must… Read More Review: The Dark Knight Rises
The big screen adventures of Marvel Comics’ webslinging superhero have been rebooted back to the beginning with a fresh cast and director, and the end result is a solidly entertaining film with a few inspired moments. After being bitten by a genetically modified spider, geeky high school student Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) begins to develop… Read More Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
Ridley Scott returns to the science fiction genre for the first time in three decades with a film that’s partly a companion piece to his 1979 classic, Alien, and partly something quite different. The result is his best film in a very long time. Archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) believe… Read More Review: Prometheus
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