Cynical nerds everywhere were baffled last week when Spider-Man: Homecoming turned out to actually be pretty good. “Ever since the teaser trailer dropped I’ve been waiting to hate-watch this thing,” grumbled Danny Goodman. “If I’d known it would actually be a coming-of-age tale filled with
In my previous Film Roundup articles (2015 and 2016) I’ve lamented the state of the box office. Every year spin-offs, prequels, sequels, reboots, and tired superhero flicks dominate the list of most profitable films. In an attempt to provide some alternatives to those usual suspects, I’ve collated
“Suck it, DC Cinematic Universe.” That’s what Marvel has earned the right to say, after a year and a half of Netflix original series that have exploded the possibilities for dark, gritty and “realistic” superheroes. And these series got popular without anything close to household
WARNING: This review contains spoilers, both for Captain America: Civil War AND Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice! Am I really so petty, so childish, that I can’t enjoy one movie without taking cheap shots at a similar one in every paragraph? Seems awfully immature of me. Let me
I would never for a second forget how good we geeks have it right now. There’s more superhero movies coming out than we can shake a web at. We finally got the Deadpool movie and it’s as good we could have hoped for! The entire
On Batman v Superman Man of Steel is not a very good movie, as I’ve mentioned before. However, it did one thing very, very right: it gave Superman a proper Biblical knock-down struggle against an equally godlike opponent (finally washing from our mouths the
This review contains spoilers. Against my better judgement, I saw the Fantastic Four last night. My fiance and I needed an excuse to check out Tulsa’s new Warren Theatre, which if you’re not familiar is one of those swanky-ass places where a waiter brings food
When Healy first shows up in this bowling alley, my first thought was to feel bad for him. I thought, “This poor idiot is gonna get his ass kicked.” Maybe I should have seen it coming, but I was genuinely surprised when he turned out