By Nick Maylor (***) With the news that Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob Reboot has entered production, I decided that it’s time to look back on this raunchy classic. The new film (despite the title) is a sequel to this 1999 ensemble wherein Smith promises to one-up the celebrity cameo factor now that he…
By Nick Maylor While I haven’t seen enough films this year to give a definitive list of the 10 best 2018 movies, our senior critic John has compiled that list here. Instead, I will be focusing on some of my favourite movies from the year, specifically the blockbusters. Ones that made big impacts at the box office…
By John H. Foote Despite appearances in Batman v. Superman (2016) and Justice League (2017), Aquaman is an original movie, telling the story of how the super hero from beneath the sea came to be. A big, overblown, overlong epic film you can see where the two hundred million budget was spent, and we understand why they have…
By Nick Maylor Much like The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is an animated superhero feature that is packed with laughs and will no doubt be warmly received by the kids. It is also reminiscent of The Lego Batman Movie in that the entire thing serves as an irreverent love-letter to the titular character(s), their history, and…
By John H. Foote To be clear, I do not believe Black Panther is the year’s best film, for me it is not even in the top 10. In fact, to go a step further I do not consider the film the best superhero film ever made, that distinction still belonging to The Dark Knight…
By Nick Maylor Yesterday, Black Panther became the first superhero movie nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama). Disney and Marvel are pushing hard for a Best Picture Oscar nomination for the film and their chances have just improved significantly. Black Panther is one of the best films I have seen this…
By Nick Maylor The long-awaiting first look at the fourth Avengers film Avengers: Endgame was released this morning and gave us a sense of where the film picks up after the events of Avengers: Infinity War. The surviving Avengers have regrouped at their base in upstate New York. Tony Stark is adrift in space with “no hope of…
By Nick Maylor While Marvel Studios has been incredibly secretive about when they will drop the first teaser for the yet untitled fourth Avengers film, we just got served a piping-hot dish of superhero sauce with this action-packed look at Captain Marvel (2019) In the trailer, we see Carol Danvers’ flashbacks to her life on Earth along with a…
By John H. Foote In 1978 audiences and critics were knocked out by Superman (1978), the glorious Richard Donner film that told the epic story of the Man of Steel. Wisely, the makers of the film gave a quasi-religious feel to it, with Jor-El (Marlon Brando) confidently saying, “so I have then sent them, you,…
By Nick Maylor Due to the constant stream of new films released each year and the general progression of life, this list could be entirely different if I were to write it six months, 5 years or 2 days from now. Amongst the countless honourable mentions are films like Batman (1989), Batman Begins (2005), Iron Man (2008),…