This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The 1956 film Indestructible Man comes so close to being a downright good Noir film. However, its mistakes also lead to inadvertent comedy that makes the film an entertaining watch even when it misses the mark in blatantly obvious ways.
The most glaring issue for me is that while the film feels like it would fit much better into the genre of Noir crime drama, instead, it departs from that to be a monster horror film. Yes, the “plot twist”…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Fight to Win (1986) aka The Magic Crystal is an entertaining film. It’s also completely all over the place, to a point of absurdity that I find it difficult to convey why it’s entertaining at this moment (outside of the Martial Arts on display). Likewise, I find it difficult to pinpoint whether it’s an “objectively good” film outside of its genre.
To be clear, I’m talking about Fight to Win (1986), the Cynthia Rothrock martial arts comedy about a set…
I had relatively high expectations for The Flash. He’s one of my all-time favorite characters in comics. What I got from the film was wildly distant from those expectations, unfortunately.
Honestly, I don’t want to wade into the cesspool of internet discourse about comic book movies based on DC properties. I have a distaste for the requirement the culture seems to put on us all to have extremely polarized views about these films. I sincerely hope everyone who went to…
Deadpool & Wolverine is one of the most uneven films I’ve seen in a very long time. I don’t think that will matter for most of its audience. Unfortunately for me, all the conflicting aspects of the film left me with an experience I’m also really conflicted about.
I am a comic book fan who used to pick up issues every Wednesday & I’ve also seen every film in the MCU. On the surface, I should be in the core demographic for…
