Who is Vision without Wanda? Exploring identity and humanity in VisionQuest
Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for Episodes 1 and 2 of VisionQuest. Who are we without the people who helped shape us? It's a question that lies at the heart of VisionQuest, as Marvel's synthezoid returns to our screens in a very different state from...
War Machine Gets Away With Far Too Much – A Review
War Machine had me gripped by sequences I thought were colossally stupid. I worried about whether these people would get out while also wondering why they had ended up in that situation. Director Patrick Hughes sends Alan Ritchson through Army Ranger selection, then sets an enormous...
Restoration Games on The Lord of the Rings: The King’s Gambit
We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Justin from Restoration Games to talk about their exciting new board game adaptation: The Lord of the Rings: The King’s Gambit. Currently funding on Kickstarter (with the campaign ending on October 20th, followed by a late...
The Empire That Ate Cinema, part one: Who Owns the Global Box Office?
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has done something extraordinary. In a little over two months, it has earned more than $2.5 billion worldwide, overtaken Titanic and Ne Zha 2, and climbed to third place on the all-time box-office chart. Only Avengers: Endgame and Avatar remain above...
Short of Style, Starved of Substance in The Uprising – A Review
This review contains minor spoilers. Watching The Uprising, I kept having to ask whether the things making me angry had actually happened. Paul Greengrass’s film spends a long time struggling to make its rebellion compelling, then reaches for events the historical record does not support. Andrew Garfield...