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…
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…
Selected Review of the Day: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)
We finally come to the last of the original trilogy, and the final chapter of the Star Wars saga...until now. This is Return of the Jedi, and here we see our story begins with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia (Carrie Fisher), and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) attempting to rescue Han Solo (Harrison Ford) from the evil gangster Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine. Meanwhile the Empire are in the stage of building a second and more powerful Death Star above the forest moon of Endor, with the supervision of Darth Vader (played by David Prowse,…
