For most of its run time, “Too Close to Home” is tedious, focusing on family drama that isn’t as compelling as the show seems to think it is, retreading plot elements and themes and conflicts that likely won’t be going away anytime soon. But in its last ten or fifteen minutes, it finally doe...
Read MoreRemember Blue Beetle, the other DC movie coming out this year? Me neither, but it’s got a trailer! Blue Beetle is the story of Jaime Reyes, who is given a cybernetic scarab beetle that attaches to him and turns him into a superhero (as near as I can tell; the trailer is a little jumbled). …...
Read MoreThe Flash better have something epic – or at least mildly entertaining – in store for its last few episodes because much of this final season has been a boring waste of time. Aside from money, I don’t understand why they came back for one more season. Nobody’s heart seems to be in it anymore...
Read MoreYou’d think invoking a classic book and movie would motivate you to put out a special episode, but “In Cold Blood” is just kind of… fine. It isn’t exactly filler, as it ties into the main storylines, but it’s one of those puzzle pieces that only connects to one other piece and then just ...
Read MoreHarley Quinn is headed to court. A series of photographs making the rounds today depict Lady Gaga as the Joker’s moll in the upcoming film Joker: Folie à Deux, a sequel to Joker, the surprise smash hit from 2019. This isn’t the first image of Gaga in character – that came courtesy of director...
Read MoreThere’s no spinning or gerrymandering this one; Shazam!: Fury of the Gods is a bomb. In terms of quality, I don’t think it should have been; I liked it very much (as did Tuggs, whose review you can read here), and unlike, say, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (or pretty much anything Marvel has...
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