The latest episode of Make Me Watch It featured Jon M. Wilson and myself discussing Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. This week, Jon and Michael Kaiser invited me to join them for Make Our Marvel to discuss Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four. You can listen to the episode here.
Category Archives: Movies
Incredibles 2 – The Bureau42 Review
Fourteen years after the last movie, Incredibles 2 picks up immediately where the previous one left off. Does it capture the same magic and quality? Is Brad Bird still the best writer/director the Fantastic Four have had? Does a lack of the definite article hamper the title at all?
My nine year old (Inara) thought it was awesome. My five year old (Majel) thought the fights were scary, but the rest was alright. My twenty year old (Raven) texted “It was incredible.” My forty-year old man thoughts are below the cut.
“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” (2016): Make Me Watch It Podcast #18 with guest host Jon M. Wilson
The latest subject of Make Me Watch It is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), directed by Zach Snyder. This time around, I am joined by half of the Make Ours Marvel podcast team, Jon M. Wilson. The updated and maintained list of options for “Make Me Watch It” can be found here. You can name up to ten movies you’d like me to cover here. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Summer Movie Review: “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975)
With the hyperbolic miniseries adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s celebrated novel currently in first run, our first Summer Movie Review of July 2018 looks back to 1975, and Peter Weir’s handling of the same material. Critics widely hail Picnic at Hanging Rock as a defining moment in Australian cinema. How does the film, a sort of Merchant Ivory meets The Twilight Zone, play more than 42 years later?
“Follow That Bird” (1985): Make Me Watch It #17
The latest subject of Make Me Watch It is Follow That Bird (1985), directed by Ken Kwapis. The updated and maintained list of options for “Make Me Watch It” can be found here. You can name up to ten movies you’d like me to cover here. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Settle Your Post-Infinity War Nerves with Ant-Man & The Wasp
We could use a few laughs right about now.
“Avengers: Infinity War” – Spoiler-free Movie Review
The culmination of a decade’s worth of planning is coming to a close. Do NOT allow yourself to be spoiled. I will not put spoilers in this review. Please spoiler guard comments with the appropriate tags, as well.
Steven Spielberg to make a DCU Blackhawk movie
DC has announce that Spielberg will be making a film based on the comparatively obscure (that is, to non-comix-readers) Blackhawks comic.
Whether it takes place in the quasi-established DCU remains uncertain, but I think it has potential. Like Iron Man, the mainstream will come to it with few source-based expectations, and, if I recollect correctly, Spielberg has had a hit or two with films set in the same era.
Bureau 42’s Movie List Viewing Challenge: Make Me Watch It Podcast #16
The latest subject of Make Me Watch It is plural. I’ve watched 32/52 movies for the Bureau 42 movie list viewing challenge so far this year, and this is a quick summary of those titles. The updated and maintained list of options for “Make Me Watch It” can be found here. You can name up to ten movies you’d like me to cover here. The series can also be found on Stitcher, on iTunes, or in a direct RSS feed.
Weekend Review: The Theory of Everything (2014)
Today Cambridge buries the late, great Stephen Hawking. Back in 2014, they gave him a biopic, which Hawking considered “broadly true” in recounting his life. Others have been critical of liberties taken with the source material, and the depiction of specific characters.
In memory of Hawking, we’re reviewing it today.