Nickg24 (492 KP) rated Captain Marvel (2019) in Movies
Aug 26, 2019
Does fall a bit flat during the mid way point when she finally meets up with her best friend and goes over old times etc.Not a bad film overall.
The Umbrella Academy - Season 1
7.9
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The Umbrella Academy revolves around a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes who...
JSA the Golden Age
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From STARMAN scribe James Robinson, and in the beautiful Deluxe Edition format, comes an alternate...
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Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
7.0
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After splitting up with The Joker, Harley Quinn and three other female superheroes - Black Canary,...
It’s the perfect antidote to the homely, suitable for kids superhero films like Marvel that bombard our screens every year. Instead The Boys is rude, crude, dark and downright hilarious at times. It’s full of blood and gore too that you’d never find anywhere near any Marvel films. There’s something beyond refreshing watching a show with superheroes behaving badly like villains, and the take on superheroes being owned and represented by a massive corporation is rather brilliant. You can almost imagine that this is how superheroes would turn out if they lived in today’s society.
This has a great cast too, and there are some wonderful performances in this. I adore Karl Urban and he’s good in this, although I feel like he’s let down a little by the fact that they’ve made him a cliched cockney. Antony Starr is seriously creepy and yet charming as Homelander, and he was great to watch. Although my favourite had to be Chace Crawford as The Deep. I feel like he was a little under-utilised in the main plot, but he provided some of the funniest scenes in the entire series and I really wanted to see more of him.
The ending was good and a nice reveal, although I wanted more and felt like it ended maybe a little too abruptly. Aside from Karl Urban’s English accent, the superhero names grate a little after a while because they are super cheesy and cringey (which I’m assuming they’re meant to be). And I felt like the character of Black Noir was a complete mystery and whilst this may be intentional, I do there has been a little bit more of him.
Aside from these little niggles though, this is a refreshingly entertaining series. So much so I’d love to watch a second series, like now.
Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future
Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher Gonzalez
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From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political...