My relationship with Dragon Ball has always been a rocky one. I enjoyed “Dragon Ball Z” as a child, and kept up with “Super” through word of mouth, only tuning in for the occasional big fight or important plot point, but I’ve never been ecstatic enough about the series to consider myself a huge fan. Dragon Ball has always...
For the better part of the last decade, when a film opened with the words “directed by M. Night Shyamalan,” groans typically followed. Following smash hits in the early 2000s like “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable,” Shyamalan produced several critical and box office flops that notoriously tarnished his reputation. That all changed however in 2016 with the unanticipated sequel...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (RBG) legacy as a brilliant, formidable advocate for gender equality precedes her. Unfortunately, her biopic “On the Basis of Sex,” doesn’t seem to capture Ginsburg’s fierce tenacity. The legal drama follows Ginsburg from her time as one of the only female students at Harvard Law School to her first ground-breaking case. Performances by Felicity Jones and...
While everyone was busy watching “Bird Box” and playing “Bandersnatch,” I decided to settle down and watch a Netflix Original called “You.” I initially thought it was going to be pretty generic, but I was wrong. Based on a book written by Caroline Kepnes, “You” follows the main character Joe, the manager of a small bookstore, as he stalks...
Ever since his first appearance in 1941, Aquaman has always been pegged below his contemporaries. Several attempts to portray the hero seriously have yielded mixed results at best, leaving the hero who talked to fish lacking the same admiration as the likes of Batman or Superman. With that said, the newest installment in the DC cinematic universe takes Aquaman...
“Bumblebee,” now the sixth installment in the “Transformers” franchise, could easily have been a mindless action movie meant to generate box office revenue, not positive reviews. Expectations weren’t high coming off the tails of “Transformers: The Last Knight,” which was both a commercial and critical disaster. This prequel — and origin story of Bumblebee’s muteness — defies those expectations,...
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse” shares its name with the six part comic book epic “Spider-verse”. Much like the comic, the movie’s elements of featuring multiple Spider-people are prevalent throughout the story with a focus on Miles Morales (Shameik Moore). The plot takes our six protagonists through a run-of-the-mill comic book story of stopping the bad guys from destroying...
Here we are once again, another prequel series has hit the silver screen and in an effort to make fast money at the box office, J.K. Rowling has left us with a mediocre filler movie to buy time for the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise. Although "Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald" is able to expand our wizarding world just a...
The sequel to Disney’s “Wreck it Ralph,” “Ralph Breaks the Internet” places Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) and Ralph (John C. Reilly) in a chaotic action-adventure based around internet culture. Opening to an impressive $18 million, the movie delivers on a chaotic and exciting experience filled with plentiful easter eggs that enrich the viewing experience even further. Fans of gaming and...
“Overlord,” directed by Julius Avery, pits a small band of U.S. soldiers ahead of the Normandy landings against the horrific machinations of the Nazis. On the surface, “Overlord” looks and feels like a big budget B-movie, but does so beautifully. The film begins with the 101st Airborne Division being flown ahead of the ground forces to pave the way...