Showing posts with label marvel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marvel. Show all posts

20 March 2024

At the movies: Madame Web.

 

Madame Web is a lot of fun, and if you listen to the Cerebrocast, their Patreon episode review of Madame Web is essential.

25 May 2023

11 April 2022

At the movies: Morbius.

 



"They see me like- a brother," the renegade scientist Michael Morbius says, speaking of the giant tube full of bats he keeps in his downtown lab. This despite his having abducted them, muddled with their DNA, and routinely killing several of them in that methodical way that hurts the collective rep of the scientific community. But it illustrates one of the several movie-killing problems at play here, namely an insistence that what is said overrides what is seen. This philosophy is fine for radio drama, but not for cinema. Have a read...

24 July 2015

At the movies: Ant-Man.


Paul Rudd is Ant-Man. Peyton Reed does a good job, but we're all a little disappointed that we couldn't see the full-on Edgar Wright vision.