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Doctor Strange: The Multiverse of Madness - NON-SPOILER Review

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

Spiderman: No Way Home - Spoiler-Free Review

Those that know me well, will know that I'm into comics. Maybe not as much as I used to be, I've always loved Marvel comics specifically, and Spiderman is my guy. I used to read as many different iterations as I could from Spectacular Spiderman, Amazing Spiderman, Web of Spiderman, Ultimate, the list goes on and on. Like most of us, I needed to know where the story goes now that Mysterio was killed and made public Spidey as Peter Parker. I will not spoil anything from the movie that was not already presented in a trailer of some-sort. If you haven't even seen a trailer, well, then maybe stop here.  Let's get my initial impression out of the way. Yes, I loved it. Past Spiderman movies have done multiple villains and failed miserably, but this one does a pretty good job of giving each of them their own respective screen time and a real reason to be there. There's lots of action and, surprisingly to me, lots of emotion. I cried three times just as an example (Yeah I