By John H. Foote Despite appearances in Batman v. Superman (2016) and Justice League (2017), Aquaman is an original movie, telling the story of how the super hero from beneath the sea came to be. A big, overblown, overlong epic film you can see where the two hundred million budget was spent, and we understand why they have…
By John H. Foote In previous years many of the Transformers films made my ten worst list, deservedly so as they were noise movies, with little plot, no characters and lots of crashing metal transforming into cars or whatever the writers could dream up. I was not a fan of the animation, nor was I…
By Nick Maylor The long-awaiting first look at the fourth Avengers film Avengers: Endgame was released this morning and gave us a sense of where the film picks up after the events of Avengers: Infinity War. The surviving Avengers have regrouped at their base in upstate New York. Tony Stark is adrift in space with “no hope of…
By Nick Maylor While Marvel Studios has been incredibly secretive about when they will drop the first teaser for the yet untitled fourth Avengers film, we just got served a piping-hot dish of superhero sauce with this action-packed look at Captain Marvel (2019) In the trailer, we see Carol Danvers’ flashbacks to her life on Earth along with a…
By Nick Maylor Due to the constant stream of new films released each year and the general progression of life, this list could be entirely different if I were to write it six months, 5 years or 2 days from now. Amongst the countless honourable mentions are films like Batman (1989), Batman Begins (2005), Iron Man (2008),…
By Nick Maylor I’m not a huge fan of having to rank things in numerical order. It’s hard to decide which performance, moment or movie is objectively better than any other (at any given time). However, there have been 10 theatrically-released, live-action films in the series; Episodes I through VI in the “saga” films and…
By John H. Foote Whatever type of human being he might have been, hard taskmaster, Nazi sympathizer, ani-Jew, Walt Disney lived to entertain, to create. His creation, Mickey Mouse is as synonymous with the movies as Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe. The animated shorts he made prior to 1937 were groundbreaking for the art form,…
By John H. Foote A. I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) (****) Let me state here and now, that I believe this to be among the finest, most daring films of Spielberg’s’ career and among the best five films of 2001. That it failed to find an audience is of no consequence to me, I loved it…
By John H. Foote Has it truly been fifty years since the original Planet of the Apes (1968) stormed into theatres, stunning audiences with its brilliance and that stinger of an ending? Apparently, time really does fly by because it has indeed been fifty years. I was nine the first time I saw the film,…
By John H. Foote Hell must be different for everyone. My hell is unique, I just know it. For me, hell would be sitting in a chair, unable to move, unable to close my eyes, watching movies I loathe. Let me be clear, I hated Solo (2018), hated every aspect of it. But I would…