Blu-ray Review: Batman The Long Halloween Part 2
by Erin Hatch, Editor-at-Large How far would you go for revenge? If someone truly hurt you, where would you draw the line between what is acceptable retribution and what is too extreme Batman: The Long Halloween Part 2 explores these…
Blu-Ray Review: Batman: The Long Halloween Part One
by Erin Hatch, Editor-at-Large One of the most alluring aspects of Batman comics is the ability for the character to participate in stories that are outlandish and cartoony or somber and grounded and still feel at home with the tone…
Movie Review: Shazam!
by Erin Hatch, Editor Superheroes- especially DC superheroes- tend to have an aspirational quality to their personas. They aren’t just larger-than-life figures, they are also ideals that the readers can look up to and try to emulate in their quest…
Movie Review: Bumblebee
by Erin Hatch, Reporter Let’s establish some critical context right away so that I don’t waste anybody’s time: I am a die-hard fan of the Transformers franchise who has been direly disappointed by Michael Bay’s film series from the beginning…
Movie Review: Thor: Ragnarok
by Erin Hatch, Reporter Thor has never been the most serious of heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sure, between the lightning powers and the hammer and the super strength he has been cool, but he’s also essentially a medieval…
TV Review: Arrow “The Calm” (SEASON PREMIERE)
by Erin Hatch, Editor The CW’s Arrow has been steadily gaining momentum since its debut two years ago, and while last spring’s dramatic finale tied up a lot of the ongoing story lines, the show returns for a third season…
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
by Erin Hatch, Editor-At-Large What are the necessary components of a good Spider-Man movie? Big budget action sequences with cool, larger than life feats of amazing abilities are one of the basic required ingredients. There needs to be a love…
Movie Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
by Erin Hatch, Editor-At-Large Marvel’s The Avengers marked the culmination of Marvel Studio’s quest to unite a team of first-class heroes in the same film continuity, taking characters from Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, and Captain America: The First…
Blu-ray Review: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising
by Erin Hatch, Editor-At-Large Megatron is dead, Cybertron has been revived, and the Autobots seem to be winning for the first time in ages as they vacate Earth and set about welcoming Cybertronian refugees home. Things are looking up at…
Blu-ray Review: Iron Man 3
All is not well in the life of Tony Stark. Fresh off his world-saving feats in Marvel’s The Avengers, everyone’s favorite eccentric billionaire inventor is plagued by PTSD, obsessed with building iteration after iteration of his famous Iron Man armor, while having trouble in his home life with his significant other and business partner Pepper Potts. When a terrorist known as the Mandarin starts attacking civilian targets in the United States, Tony calls him out and triggers a personal vendetta that can take away everything he loves and threaten the security of the entire world.
Movie Review: Blue Jasmine
There are so many thoughts rushing through Jasmine’s head that she can’t help but spout them out. She needs to voice her story, needs to say it even if nobody wants to hear it, or even if there is nobody around to hear it at all. Blue Jasmine, the latest film by prolific filmmaker Woody Allen, tracks the scrambled thoughts of a thoroughly broken woman who tries to pull her life back together. Woody Allen theoretically still has a reputation for being a comedian, and this movie could theoretically be called a comedy, but despite how funny this movie is, it’s actually a full-on modern tragedy.
Blu-ray Review: Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
The DC Universe is known for hosting some of the most iconic characters in comics. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Canterbury Cricket… the list goes on. Fans of DC and Warner Brothers’ animated series have seen the Justice League work together to fight impossible odds time after time, always moving past their personal differences in order to save the day. Now, in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, it’s time to see them in a slightly different light: emotionally scarred and desperately trying to kill each other.
Movie Review: The Wolverine
When is a super hero movie not a super hero movie? Does the inclusion of characters with strange and supernatural powers automatically consign a film to the increasingly dominant sub-genre mixing the most potent aspects of the science fiction and action categories, or is there wiggle room for a film to defy the tropes of the comic book super hero film as popularized by Marvel and DC in recent years?
The Wolverine evokes those questions despite the comic book origins of its characters and their super human abilities, because at its core it is an action film with a theme that questions the nature of mortality and immortality.
TV Review: Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters – “Rebellion”
by Erin Hatch, Editor-At-Large Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters continues with “Rebellion” an action packed installment that continues the momentum of the first three episodes and brings the third season’s first story arch to an exciting climax. SPOILER ALERT! Humanity is…
TV Review: Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters – “Prey”
by Erin Hatch, Editor-At-Large Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters is off to an explosive start, and “Prey,” the third episode of this season picks up where the second installment left off: The Autobots are scattered, the Decepticons are desperate to find them,…