Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) Okay, Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace doesn’t have that great of a trailer. It pretty much plays out the way you would expect a Star Wars trailer to work, with classic queues from the John Williams score and …

This post contains spoilers for The Marvels. For a variety of reasons, The Marvels left a lot of lingering questions in the minds of viewers. One of the biggest concerns the movie’s MacGuffin itself, the bangle that the villain Dar-Benn uses to fight the heroes and restore her home planet …

Is that enough to get eyeballs back on Disney+ MCU shows? If the first critic reactions are any indication, the show might find an audience that the rest of the franchise has lost. Unsurprisingly, most of the reactions emphasize the quality of the action of the series, comparing it favorably …

Though the film pushes aside the mainline Muppet characters, save for Gonzo in the role of Charles Dickens and Rizzo the Rat as his sidekick, the film feels in line with previous Muppet movies. More importantly, it feels in line with the best of the Christmas Carol adaptations, thanks to …

Mystery Incorporated and the Mythology of Horror Mystery Incorporated functions like a kid’s version of Cabin of the Woods, reframing Mystery Inc. as players in an ur-myth, the latest in a variation of four humans and an animal who solve mysteries. Throughout the series, we learn about The Hunters of …

To a modern moviegoer, the decision by Broccoli, who was by the then the solo head of Eon Productions, might seem ridiculous. Why would you turn down Steven Spielberg, especially right after Jaws or Close Encounters? Incredulity only increases when you look at the directors Eon did hire at the …

So when Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore determined to make the primary correct TNG film a sequel to “The Best of Both Worlds,” they discovered a wealthy vein of storytelling potential and fan curiosity. Dodgy motion beats apart (“Assimilate this!”), First Contact gave Picard’s trauma its due, advancing the …

This put up accommodates heavy spoilers for Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania Regardless of some worries that Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania would abandon the laid-back perspective of the earlier two films starring Scott Lang, the most recent MCU entry managed to be a reasonably mild journey. Till the mid-credit …

Just found out from this meme that the central emotional plot point of The Mandalorian was resolved in some other show that I will never watch. https://t.co/jM9lwzAvbn — Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) January 17, 2023 It’s still incredibly funny to me that Mando and Grogu were separated at the end of …