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Coming off of a dismal Phase 4, I had hopes for Ant Man 3. Not many, but I had them. I liked the first two Ant Man movies and I was almost excited to start Phase 5 and get that other garbage off my mind. Oh dear. I wish I had stayed in Phase 4. Photo by The News Fetcher This movie did everything in it's power to force the normal Disney tropes down your throat: The original main character isn't actually the main character of his own movie, he's now and idiot that can't do anything right. The youngest character is somehow a genius and figures out technology that even the great Hank Pym couldn't grasp really. Cassie is an absolute terrible character now. When we saw her briefly in End Game, she was emotional, but stable. Happy to see her father and seemingly fitting into the "normal" family being built with Wasp and Ant Man. In this movie, she needs to fit the Disney archetype of "If you're a female, you need to be better than everyone at everything

Well it was bound to happen at some point. A good movie has finally hit theatres. Dungeons and Dragons had recently made headlines for greedy practices outside of the theatre, so I went into the movie with admittedly low expectations. Finally, I was wrong. Finally a movie in 2023 worth the price of admission for me. Picture by Forbes Also admittedly, I am a D&D player. I have been most of my life. So to say I'm biased is easy, but in a lot of cases, I expected that to work against my review of the movie before seeing it. The plot of the film is very over-the-top, but this works because many D&D adventurers are just like that. It really reminded me of a simpler time when you could just watch a movie and just enjoy it for what it was. The lore is obviously not the same as it was in the D&D lore books. By many accounts, there was no real way for a lot of the core material to be properly adapted to the screen. However, the things that were, were done very right in my opinio

Ok, so I now understand why there are so many critics divided on this film. There will be no spoilers for this one as it is so new. I can easy see the good in the film, but I also can’t ignore the blatant issues that are present. So, let's-a-go. Picture from Pluggedin I really enjoyed the portrayal of Princess Peach. She was a powerful, fairly well written character that did not need to step on the male characters to stand out from the rest. Although, there was something.... off about her actual character model. Her face was more, pointy maybe? It wasn't bad, but it was, strange was all. The environments were breath-takingly spectacular. So well, designed. Hit right in the nostalgia. Many things were done so very right in regard to keeping to the video games. From the blocks to the world building, everything had a proper place from the games. Picture by Engadget Now, here are some issues. The movie has glaring pacing issues and a plot so razer thin you'd be forgiven if you

  Ok let's get this one over with. Now, to say I was intrigued when I heard that no only had Winnie The Pooh's copyright changed to Public, but that someone was already making a horror movie based on the events at the 100 Achre Woods, would have been an understatement. I knew not to expect much from this, but the premise was golden: a childhood story retold definitely not how you remember it. I was hoping to see a dark fairy tale like the original Three Little Pigs story or the original Hansel and Grettle story (PS if you haven't read those original stories, they're pretty horific to say the least). What we got...well....the budget for this movie was 100k. That's what you got. Don't forget, Downy Jr. Made millions alone just to be in Infinity War, so 100k budget for everything in the film....sounds like a dumster fire. Oh yes, the flames were high on this one. Photo by Jagged Edge Entertainment So, although I liked the idea for the movie, it was completely predi

  The Invitation was a movie that kinda' came out of left-field for me. I had heard nothing about it, seen nothing about it, which is semi-unusual for a film with a theatrical release at least. None-the-less, tickets were discounted, so my fiancé and I went to see it. I love horror, this was apparently a horror/thriller. Could be good. From here on, spoilers. Photo by University of Maine The movie by its-self wasn't actually terrible; I've easily seen much worse. Having said that, if it wasn't discounted, I would not have gone to the theatre for it. Easily could have been a direct-to-home release. The main issue the movie had in my opinion, was that it was distinctively cut into three sections, and not like beginning, middle and end. What I mean is the first half hour of the movie is dedicated to learning the characters and presenting what appears to be a ghost story of sorts. I like haunting movies and stories, so I was interested. The second-third of the movie was thi

I love the MCU. I love how integrated the stories are. Having been a comic book collector and lover of that media, I don't always care for the things Marvel or Disney change. Still, I do understand most of these changes based on making something that the general audience will not only understand but actually like as well. I didn't care for Black Widow, The Eternals, or Shang-chi so for me, I wanted, no I needed a film to bring me back to the MCU. We're a few films into phase 4 now, and there doesn't seem to be any real build-up to a "big bad" like Thanos. We've had teasers of big enemies in some of the Marvel shows but nothing concrete yet. Surely we'll see something in the Multiverse of Madness right! Right? Right. About that. Photo via The Direct Let's go ahead and say I enjoyed the film, but I didn't love it. I wasn't in awe of the imagery of the Multiverse. I wasn't shocked or taken aback by most of the moments or events within the

To say the very least, I'm a bit of a horror fan. Jason, Michael and Fred are my main guys like most horror fans, but Ghostface was never far behind them. I still remember when Scream was released back in the '90s and it was such a fiasco. Yeah, we'd all seen slasher films in the past, but none of them had been as creative as Scream yet. Scream was really the first non-comedy/horror to push the Meta of horror movies right into the viewers' faces. A "Whodunnit" plot mixed with a new iconic killing machine and the saga was born. The original trilogy followed all the steps you would expect from a trilogy. Ironically, these steps were even told directly to the audience during the 3rd film.  Photo by Variety Then, the hiatus. Scream was one of the "big" horror franchises to actually pump the breaks after the 3rd film. A bold move to say the least. Nowadays, this would never happen. Production companies are way too greedy to let something simmer like Screa