It’s been a while since I saw Sylvester Stallone in anything, which was Creed II in 2018 (though he did voice the hilarious shark in The Suicide Squad). The 76-year-old actor remains in good shape so it’s unsurprising that he's drawn to a superhero role, and he still looks believable as one. The story is based …
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FlixChatter Review: Incredibles 2 (2018)
The Incredibles was released 2004 when the super hero genre was starting to dominate the box office. It was one of the biggest hits of that year but somehow a sequel never got made. Now 14 years later, the Parr/Incredibles family is back to save the world from bad guys. Set not long after the …
Question of the week – Which movie/tv genre(s) have you decided to stop watching?
Happy weekend all! I haven't done this question-of-the-week post in a looong time. Well, my pal Ted sent me an email about this topic and I thought it'd be a good one to pose to all you fine movie lovers out there. I'm hoping this would be an interesting discussion point as we'd all have different …
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Guest Post – Musings from a part-time cartoon artist: Maybe some comics shouldn’t be movies
Special thanks to guest contributor Rich Watson from the film blog Wide Screen World for today's post. During the opening weekend of the new Fantastic Four movie, I saw a discussion on Facebook in which people were putting it down, and more importantly, praising the original incarnation – the comic book created by Stan Lee …
Everybody’s Chattin’ + Question of the Week: shameless tv/movie indulgence
Happy almost-weekend peeps! Is it Friday yet? It's been quite a hectic week at the office, rushing against deadlines and all that, but let's not talk about work on the blog shall we? I mean this is supposed to be my escape! I almost forgot doing the LINKS post but there have been some great …
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Question of the Week: How do you [REALLY] feel about the endless supply of superhero movies?
Happy Wednesday, everyone! Today's question is inspired by my viewing of Guardians of the Galaxy last night, and also the recent festivities of San Diego Comic-con. I also just read this article written by my friend Raul Marin at Film Inquiry where he talks about Marvel vs. DC and who will win in the end. …
Musings on Batman casting… and the actor who gets my vote for the role: Richard Armitage
Perhaps one of the BIGGEST news out of Comic-con this year was the fact that Warner Bros. is developing a Superman & Batman film coming out in 2015. Zack Snyder (via actor Harry Lennix who played Gen Swanwick in Man of Steel) announced it to 6,500 screaming fans at Hall H, and the reaction was …
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