REVIEW OF THE DAY: Suicide Squad (2016)
Not only am I trying to catch up with the MCU films, but also the DCEU films as well. I left off at BATMAN V SUPERMAN, now I am here to discuss SUICIDE SQUAD. After the events of BATMAN V SUPERMAN, and the death of Superman, the world is in chaos, and a new threat emerges in the Enchantress (Cara Delevingne), who is bent on destroying the world. Heroes like Batman, Wonder Woman, and The Flash, are somehow unavailable, so what does the government do? Well an official, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), proposes a plan to put together a team of dis…
REVIEW OF THE DAY: Doctor Strange
In my attempt to catch up with the movies of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), since I left off with Captain America: Civil War, it only makes sense to discuss the MCU film that followed right after, Doctor Strange. Strange is the fourteenth film in the MCU, focusing on supernatural superhero, Doctor Strange, a master of the mystic arts, also in comics having the title of the Sorcerer Supreme. The character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for Marvel Comics in the 1960s. The film focuses on the character of Doctor Stephen Strange …
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR- A Battle to Remember
"This job, you try to save as many people as you can. That doesn't mean everybody, but you don't give up". A quote said by Captain America himself (Chris Evans) in his new solo film by Marvel Studios, Captain America: Civil War, even though he is accompanied by an ensemble cast of Marvel superheroes including new and old allies. But nonetheless the film itself explores the meaning of this quote a lot and what it means to the very character of a superhero as two split factions of The Avengers try to explore this, one led by …
BATMAN V SUPERMAN: Dawn of Triumph, Satisfactory, or Mediocrity?
So after decades of audiences waiting, a milestone in comic book superhero film history has been reached. Two of the world's most iconic superheroes, Batman and Superman, finally come face to face in a cinematic feature film, in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the follow-up to 2013's Man of Steel, and true start to the DC Cinematic Universe, to rival that of Marvel Studios. We see in this movie, Batman himself, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), actually witnesses the destruction of Metropolis during the final fight scene of Man of Stee…
ZOOTOPIA, City of Fun and Tolerance
In Walt Disney Animation's newest family romp, Zootopia, we follow the story of Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin), an optimistic and positive up beat bunny who dreams of becoming a cop in Zootopia, a city inhabited by anthropomorphic animals of all kinds where the smallest mouse to the largest elephant can be anything from a restaurant server to the CEO of a major company. Once Judy achieves her goal of being a police officer in Zootopia, she is at first given small, boring, non-risky jobs such as parking duty. That is until she c…
