Not a “good” Samaritan; not a “bad” Samaritan; just a “wish it was better but I appreciate what it is” Samaritan. Continue reading
Matches for: “superhero” …
“‘Black Widow’s David Harbour Is Marvel’s First Dad Bod Superhero”
Hell yeah, big boys. Continue reading
“Thunder Force’s Lame Superhero Comedy Continues Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy’s Losing Streak”
Ben Falcone married Melissa McCarthy and man, he has given a masterclass in riding coattails ever since. Continue reading
“‘The Boys’ Season 2 Is Violent, Excessive Superhero Satire With A Lot On Its Mind”
Queue Thin Lizzy references from a hundred hack TV critics with clever to say. Continue reading
“New Season Of ‘Jessica Jones’ Wants Us To Know That Superheroes Have Feelings Too”
Remember back in 2015, when I reviewed every single dang episode of the first season of Jessica Jones? A couple years later, here I am up at The ARTery, compromising by reviewing just the first five episodes of the series’ new season, which is available for streaming on Netflix now. Bad news: It’s not as good as the … Continue reading
The Defenders Proves That We Need Fewer Superhero Teamups
Maybe I’m the wrong person to write about superhero stuff in 2017. Guys, really: I just can’t watch superhero things without finding big philosophical flaws in their makeup and intent. I’m afraid to sit through the second season of Jessica Jones when it airs next year, even, though then again, Jessica is the best thing about The Defenders, … Continue reading
“What Does Santa The Action Hero Stand For?”
Santa baby, hurry down the chimney tonight, because we’re being held hostage by ruthless mercenaries and we could sure use the help. Continue reading
“Steel at 25: Shaqsploitation”
You’d better ask MC Hammer ’bout this bad mama jama tall kid with the hoopa hypa lipta-gramma. Continue reading
“‘Blade II,’ Still Sharp”
If you want anything done right, including a “Blade 2” retrospective, you gotta do it yourself. Continue reading
“‘The Avengers’ Gave Us Marvel’s Peak, 10 Years Ago”
Pour one out for the superhero movie, which had a great moment once upon a time and has steadily lost that moment every year since. Continue reading
“Why ‘Glass’ Twist May Feel Unsatisfying”
The big twist of M. Night Shyamalan’s capper to his homegrown superhero movie? It’s actually an obnoxiously self-satisfied deconstruction of superhero tropes. Continue reading
Review: Aquaman, 2018, dir. James Wan
Preamble: Man, the DCEU movies are fucking bad. (Excepting Wonder Woman, which is good until it’s bad.) …okay, got that out of the way. Aquaman kinda rocks. Like Wonder Woman, Aquaman cradles its share of flaws and bad creative decisions, most of them involving the totally great Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who deserves to be a big huge movie star and … Continue reading
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Shows That Anyone Can Be Spider-Man”
True story: On first hearing of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, I wrote it off and put it out of my memory, thinking, “this sounds like a pretty naked excuse to put a bunch of different Spider-Man variations into a single movie for the purpose of moving lots of ancillary product, and also most Marvel movies aren’t … Continue reading
“The New Robin Hood Steals From Batman Begins And Gives Back In Poorer Form”
I’m increasingly convinced that superheroes will be the death of pop culture, and that one day, not too many days away from this day we’re on right now, all will be superheroes. Superhero movies and superhero TV series’ are just the beginning. Superhero music. (Probably already a thing.) Superhero diet plans. (Same.) Superhero high fashion. Superhero … Continue reading
“Why ‘Iron Man’ Was The Most Pivotal Movie Of The Last Decade”
While you all are talkin’ about your “Infinity wars,” I’m talkin’ about Iron Man, the movie that really actually started it all, even if everyone likes to say the Marvel Cinematic Universe really began with The Avengers. I guess it did, in a way. But Iron Man put the MCU in motion in the first place. Ten years … Continue reading
Appreciating ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ and Its Joss Whedon Jabs
I’m at the point where if you give me one Marvel movie, you’ve given me all Marvel movies, but maybe Marvel is also at the point where they’re actually hiring filmmakers and letting them assert their voice in their productions; Thor: Ragnarok, a Taika Waititi joint, is really, really good, and not just in comparison to … Continue reading
Spider-Man: Homeroom
It’s bad enough we have to learn about superheroes in movie theaters all across the world these days, but now our children have to learn about superheroes in the classroom. Someone, please: Think of the children. There’s a lot that happens in <i>Spider-Man: Homecoming</i>, most of it designed to bolster the bonds holding the Marvel … Continue reading
Interview: Zoe Lister-Jones, “Band Aid”
More spillover from this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, boys and girls! In this chapter of my post-fest follow-up, I present to you my interview with Zoe Lister-Jones, actress, writer, singer, filmmaker, playwright, and probably a host of other nouns denoting profession that I am unaware of. (Chef? Basketball player? Deep sea fisherwoman? Vigilante superheroine?) … Continue reading
Review Round-Up: Certain Strange Women Doctors, Lobsters, & Camerapersons By The Sea
I watch a lot of movies, and I don’t write about all of them. This is especially true of the annual year-end rush to cram in as much movie watching goodness as possible before voting deadlines for the Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) and the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS). Consider these capsules my … Continue reading
TV Review: Luke Cage, Episodes 1.01 & 1.02, “Moment of Truth”/”Code of the Streets”
Remember all those times I reviewed Jessica Jones? Have you been missing those times? Miss no longer! Now I’m reviewing Luke Cage, aka “the best screen thing Marvel has ever put their name on,” which is maybe just a smidge hyperbolic but, well, I don’t care. Luke Cage is great. It also has vaulted Marvel’s Netflix and television … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 