The second and third Captain America movies are probably the best action movies within the Marvel canon. Steve Roger’s movie incarnation has also become an iconic character within cinema. When Steve Rogers passes off the shield to Sam Wilson at the end of Avengers: Endgame it felt like the perfect passing of the torch. With that said, whatever follow-up that came had a lot to live up to. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has...
I love the Invincible comic book. I’ve been following the career of comic book writer Robert Kirkman since his comic, The Walking Dead, was adapted to TV. The show is a roller coaster of quality but the comic book, in my opinion, is an instant classic of zombie media. I eventually found his super hero comic, Invincible. While the comic definitely has some rough patches, it was a series that got better and better with...
I watched the four hour long Zack Snyder’s Justice League. It actually probably took six or seven hours including breaks for walks and cooking. Believe it or not I’m trying to get out of my couch potato habits and walk around. I’ll be frank, I have not enjoyed director Zack Snyder’s previous DC films. Batman v Superman is a movie made up of cool moments but it was a mess of storytelling and I can’t...
I hadn’t heard of The Vigil before the day I watched it. When I needed something new to watch my editor brought it up and I said: “Alright, that will do.” This horror movie about a jewish man who becomes haunted by a demon while looking over a deceased elder is the feature film debut of writer and director Kieth Thomas. While I do think Thomas does show a lot of promise as a filmmaker,...
Last year Cyberpunk 2077 was my most anticipated game of the 2020. CD Projekt Red made what I consider to be one of the best games in the last generation with The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 was looking to build on top of that. The game came out in December and it even isn’t really out yet. The game is broken on consoles and doesn’t even run that fantastically on PC. This then came...
Hitman 3 is the concluding chapter to the World Assassination Trilogy that IO Interactive started in 2016 with their soft reboot of the Hitman franchise. What came was a series of games with fantastic levels, moments of tension in figuring out what to do next, and almost non-existent storytelling. IO Interactive has now come out with the final game in this trilogy before moving onto a recently announced 007 game. Hitman 3 is now out...
The first Wonder Woman film infuriated me. It’s a fine movie, it’s nothing special, and even for the time it doesn’t really do enough when it has other movies of its kind to go against. But it was a well enough made movie that has some pretty good character work. The reason the movie makes me want to throw my Blu Ray player is because it thematically shoots itself in the foot (spoilers for the...
2020 has not been the greatest year for movies. With the pandemic delaying some of the most anticipated projects set to come out (if only Dune, if only) and a large number of movies ending up disappointing (looking at you Tenet) there hasn’t been a large catalogue this year. For me this year has been mostly about catching up on stuff that I missed and re-experiencing some of my favorites (ready for my thousandth viewing...
I always give HBO shows a chance. I believe that their shows really only reach a certain demographic but I fall in that demographic so I’ll always give them a chance. I’ve known about Lovecraft Country since 2018 only because it has been on Jordan Peele’s IMDB which I have consistently checked for upcoming projects since the release of Get Out. I looked up the book to find that it is a story that is...
In 2018 Netflix released The Haunting of Hill House developed by Mike Flanagan. Not only did it prove, it cemented Mike Flanagan’s place in horror but it is arguably one of the greatest things that Netflix has ever released. A fantastically scary story driven more by emotions than the ghost. Even despite it being a self contained story Netflix renewed the show for another season but with an all new story to be inspired by...
