We can all admit that the only real saving grace to 2016’s Suicide Squad was Margot Robbie’s performance as Harley Quinn, which seems to be the genesis of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) as the star of this film is that irascible Harleen Quinzel as she flamboyantly bounces around…
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Joker (2019) – Review
A comic book villain headlining his own movie is nothing new – just last year we had the somewhat successful Venom movie – and the fact that Batman’s rogue’s gallery is one of the best in all of comicdom, with Joker being the top of the deck, it almost makes this movie seem inevitable. Yet the…
Hobbs & Shaw (2019) – Review
The Fast and the Furious franchise departed the whole “Street Racing” element at around the fifth film, and since then they’ve focused mostly on crazy heists with high-octane action sequences — each one trying to outdo the previous entry — and then with The Fate of the Furious, any semblance of reality was gleefully dispatched. Now, with…
The Amazing Bulk (2012) – Review
Superhero movies are some of the biggest and most popular movies released these days. They boast large budgets, great action and overall a good time at the theater. But what if a superhero movie didn’t have a decent budget, had terrible acting, was loaded with special effects straight out of a video game from the…
Captain Marvel (2019) – Review
With twenty-one films currently making up the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one has to be chagrined that it took this long for the studio to give us a superhero movie with a female lead — it took the DC Extended Universe only four films to break out Wonder Woman, yet we’re still waiting for a Black…