Miraculously even better than its predecessor and the most excited I've been about a comic-book movie since "Avengers Endgame".
Let's get the obvious out of the way first- the animation. Just as the other animation studios were starting to catch up to the ground-breaking animation of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", "Spider Man: Across the Spider-Verse" manages to set that bar even higher. Right from the start with Gwen's watercolour world that is in tune to her emotions you can tell…
The prophecy established last night has now been fulfilled and tonight I went for the genius piece of arthouse cinema "Fast Five" rather than any of my Criterions.
I know I said I was going to watch every film in the franchise but knowing that the first 4 films didn't have any crazy stunts which is part of the appeal for me I thought let's get straight to the good stuff. "Fast Five" represents the turning point for the franchise…
Ok the second round really hit. "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3" is the best MCU movie since "Avengers Endgame" without a doubt. Writer-director James Gunn is 4 for 4 with the big budget superhero films he's made so far being "The Suicide Squad" and of course the "Guardians of the Galaxy" trilogy which has to be the MCU's most consistent trilogy. What Gunn does well is that he excels in both spectacle and heart. Like every recent MCU film the…
Hands down my favourite of the "John Wick" franchise. It's so impressive how each movie has gotten progressively more and more ambitious starting as a fairly basic revenge flick about a man getting pretty angry over the death of his dog (who wouldn't?) turning into the gold standard for action films. Let's talk about the action because that's the main appeal of "John Wick: Chapter 4" the spectacular action scenes. By having a runtime of nearly three hours and a…
