The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C- As a fan of martial arts movies from the 70s and 80s, I was looking forward to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in hopes that it would infuse some new flavor into the Marvel formula. While there are some kickass moments in early fight scenes and some […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A- I wasn’t writing reviews yet when the first Suicide Squad was released in 2016, but that’s probably for the best as I’m not sure if my vocabulary could adequately describe my hatred for that loathsome piece of shit. The Suicide Squad doesn’t exactly have an inspired title, but otherwise feels […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B On one hand, I’m ecstatic to finally see Black Widow in theaters. Why? Because I psychologically couldn’t handle seeing the trailer anymore. As one of the high-profile releases delayed an entire year by the pandemic, I have seen Black Widow’s trailer every fucking week for the last year and a […]
I finished 2020 by spending an afternoon at the movies and seeing a double feature of Promising Young Woman (review forthcoming) and Wonder Woman 1984, so I ended the year on a theme of strong women and fucking lies. In both cases, I did not get the film that was promised by the trailers. […]
We finally made it here, America. We’ve all gone through some dark days, but I always knew this light remained shining, as dim as it may have seemed at times, at the end of the tunnel. Yes, you know what I’m talking about: The New Mutants has finally been released in theaters. I have […]
To begin on a positive note, the conveniently-titled Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is a better movie than Suicide Squad. However, one must keep in mind that Suicide Squad is one of the worst things ever; not one of the worst movies ever, but one of the worst […]
“Finally, a female superhero on the big screen!” presumably said somebody in 1984 when Supergirl was released to theaters. Since then, the only female comic heroes that have made it into the movies are Batgirl, The Invisible Woman, Catwoman, Storm, Rogue, Mystique, Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, Psylocke, Elektra, Jean Grey, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Gamora, […]
After seven movies, the Spiderman franchise has divided itself into three neat categories: the really good (Spiderman and Spiderman 2), the okay (Amazing Spiderman and Spiderman: Homecoming) and the godawful (Spiderman 3 and Amazing Spiderman 2). I’m moderately happy to say that this latest entry is firmly in the “okay” pile. Essentially just like […]
Shazam! is my favorite DC Universe movie and possibly my favorite superhero movie since Logan. However, this is about as far from Logan as a superhero movie can get. I have heard many people say that this just looks like a kid’s movie. Well, yeah. That’s what this character should be. Not every character […]
Well, this is a big goddam disappointment. Glass is a sequel to both Unbreakable and Split and, since Unbreakable came out in 2000, M. Night Shyamalan has had 19 years to think about how to resolve this series (fun fact: Split was originally just a subplot in Unbreakable, but was cut from the script […]