Posted by
Anthony Mango
- Sunday, February 24, 2019
The 91st Academy Awards were presented on February 24, 2019 and honored the best in film for 2019. Here are the results of all of the winners in their respective categories.
** KEEP REFRESHING THIS PAGE FOR UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE CEREMONY **
BEST PICTURE: Green Book
BEST ACTOR: Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody
BEST ACTRESS: Olivia Colman for The Favourite
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Mahershala Ali for Green Book
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Green Book
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: BlacKkKlansman
BEST FILM EDITING: Bohemian Rhapsody
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: First Man
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roma
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Black Panther
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Black Panther
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: Vice
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Ludwig Göransson for Black Panther
BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "Shallow" from A Star is Born
BEST SOUND EDITING: Bohemian Rhapsody
BEST SOUND MIXING: Bohemian Rhapsody
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: Bao
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Free Solo
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: Period. End of Sentence
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Roma
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: Skin
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE RESULTS?
DID YOUR FAVORITES WIN OR LOSE?
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Anthony Mango
- Saturday, February 23, 2019
Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.
Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:
Netflix Cancels Jessica Jones and Punisher Series
Is literally anybody surprised about this whatsoever? As soon as Daredevil was cut, this was obvious.
Trolls Target Captain Marvel on Rotten Tomatoes
Waaaaah I have a problem with something someone said and I'm going to try to sabotage everything surrounding it because that'll make me feel better. Stupid. Look, I'm a white male and I'm someone who finds a lot of things nowadays to be annoying when it comes to pointing at me as being a problem when I've done nothing wrong, so I get when people are peeved about hearing more about that. However, what the fuck does that have to do with this movie? Brie Larson throwing out the idea that most of the press junkets feature white males is not an attack on white males, nor does it mean the movie she's in sucks.
Granted, if in the film, a major plot point is "all white males suck" or something, then sure, by all means, trash the movie. If the movie itself is terrible, it will get the Rotten Tomatoes score it deserves. But until that is the case, don't crap on a movie for a reason other than the movie's credentials and the process in making that movie—none of which seems to be the case when it comes to this.
France Makes Lightsaber Dueling a Sport
Hey, at least this isn't as bad as the people claiming Jedi as their religion, right? Lightsabers are cool and I'd rather watch this type of a duel than fencing.
Better Than Flashpoint
People are making buzz over Zack Snyder saying his plans for the DC films were "better" than Flashpoint. Why? Of course he would say that! Do you think he would say "Nah, Flashpoint's so much cooler than what I had in mind. My ideas would have sucked." or something like that? Come on now, people.
This very well could have been true, but it's just his perspective of the story he wanted to tell. he wanted to tell it because he liked it, so of course he's fond of his idea. It could have been awesome, or it could have been terrible. Someone out there thought Fant4stic was a good plan. Remember that.
Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart Guinness World Record
Jackman and Stewart have been awarded records for the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest portrayal of a live action superhero for, obviously, their roles as Wolverine and Professor X.
That's awesome! They both killed the parts over and over and over again and I doubt we're going to find anyone better.
So I watched Gotham...
...just to see the Ace Chemicals thing. I haven't seen the show in a few seasons, as it's just awful. Clearly, things haven't changed. However, I do think the idea of Joker trying to kill a father/mother figure to replace Joe Chill is a neat concept.
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Anthony Mango
- Saturday, February 16, 2019
Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.
Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:
Aladdin Teaser
Mehh....Aladdin looks like Aladdin. Jasmine looks like Jasmine. They've got the monkey and the tiger. The magic carpet is there. WTF is up with Jafar sounding like his balls haven't dropped yet? Genie is just "blue Will Smith" so that's a bit weird and will take some time to adjust to. Really, I'm seeing this movie no matter what, but this didn't wow me as much as I was hoping it would.
Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Animated Movie in the Works
This is crazy, but since I'm a fan of both, I'm totally up for checking it out. Darren Criss is Raphael? He strikes me more as a Donatello. Very curious. Very confused. Very intrigued. Cool.
Frozen 2 Trailer
Music. Scenery. Gusto. I totally checked out of this. Give me an indication of the story itself and not just some "isn't Frozen great?" type thing. I thought Frozen was just okay.
The Reach Spinoff Movie
I forgot to mention this last week, but a report is going around that there will be a spinoff film from Aquaman that will be a horror movie revolving around The Reach. Horrible idea. They're just monsters that look like humanoid piranhas. It wouldn't serve any function, really, because the cast of characters to follow would be pointless. DC needs to stop having people make pitches that lead nowhere.
Academy Awards Cutting Categories from Live Broadcast
Apparently, Film Editing, Cinematography, Live Action Short and Makeup and Hairstyling won't be airing on the TV broadcast for the Oscars, because they want to cut down on the time. Here's a thought: how about you cut down on all the frivolous bullshit instead? How about doing my suggestion about making it a weekend affair?
DC Super Hero Girls Trailer
...not for me.
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Posted by
Anthony Mango
- Sunday, February 10, 2019
Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.
Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:
Justice League vs. The Fatal Five Trailer
Loving the animation, I absolutely love the voice actors of course (Kevin Conroy and Tim Daly / George Newbern are my ideal Batman and Superman in my mind) and although this trailer doesn't give me much to go on, I'm still excited. Is this technically in continuity with the end of Justice League Unlimited??
Star Wars: Episode IX - Balance of the Force
Supposedly, that's the title. If so, I like it. I used that in a fan fiction thing I had written before. Hopefully, it's also a nod to how they need to find the right balance to fix this franchise that they've greatly hindered...
Also, this rumor that there is a threat from outside the universe is what 7-8-9 should have been, not this random shit about setting up that the heroes from the original trilogy are failures and it's up to Rey and only Rey to save the galaxy. This should have been that over the course of the 30 years from Return of the Jedi, Luke has spent that time learning more and trying to build up a new class of Jedi, while the Republic is still forming, and they've been dealing with the political spectrum and cleaning up the galaxy, which left them vulnerable to attack from the outside now that there isn't a massive empire to combat them.
Terminator: Dark Fate
That's the working title, and I sincerely hope they change it. That's just not great. Depending on what the story is (which I would really hope is "John Connor struggles with the start of the war" to a certain extent, cause it seems like they're ignoring John so far and that's making me nervous) I'd like a title to be more poignant and not so much the "edgy cool marketing" type. Maybe give me something like Terminator: No Fate even.
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Anthony Mango
- Saturday, February 2, 2019
Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.
Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:
Black Panther Returning to Theaters for Black History Month
From February 1-7, Black Panther is going to come back to 250 AMC theaters for seemingly two reasons: Black History Month and to give it an extra boost for the Academy Awards.
VERY smart move. Also, tickets are going to be free? That's a great way to get people to really give your movie lots of positive buzz. Kudos, team. Great movie, too, as I've said time and time again.
Black Panther Wins at Screen Actors Guild Awards
The film took the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award and Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture. Nice!
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 6 Teaser
So....huh? I'm assuming this is an alternate dimension type deal or something, as they can't do time travel again without it just being stupid.
To be honest, I wish they would go back to the previous formula of just having more scaled down things to deal with. Season 1 and parts of season 2 were my favorites overall.
Birds of Prey Teaser
This did absolutely nothing to quell my fears about this movie. In fact, it really proved that I have every reason to be fearful, because it's stupid. It's a meaningless set of images that show a Black Mask without a black mask, a drugged out looking Black Canary, a Cassie Cain that doesn't strike me at all as that character in the slightest bit, and it's trying to be cutesy.
Zombieland: Double Tap
Not sure I dig the title, but it's not something bothersome. Rosario Dawson will be in it, though, which is a plus.
Ben Affleck Exits The Batman
Seems we have another story about Affleck no longer being Batman. At this point, fuck it. DC's movies are so haphazard and crazy that I'm not investing anything in them, in particular. If they aren't going to crossover with each other anymore, then go ahead and cast a new Batman. Just make good movies and maybe you can revisit the Justice League in the future when you have an actual game plan, instead of throwing things out there and hoping some of it sticks.
DC Super Pets
Yeah....this isn't one of those good ideas. A whole movie revolving around Krypto and all? Stupid. That's an animated kids flick project, not an actual movie.
Batman Beyond Film....J/K
Rumors went around that there would be a Batman Beyond film in the works. Now, those are said to be not true.
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Posted by
Anthony Mango
- Friday, February 1, 2019
Welcome to another edition of 6 Flicks Picks, wherein I list all of the upcoming films that are scheduled to be released in the United States for the month which is about to begin and break down which ones I'll be watching in theaters, which ones I'll wait to rent at home, and which ones I'll be skipping out on entirely. After going through the list, I'll choose which six films stand out to me as the ones I want to see the most, even if there are more or less than six that interest me.
Note: The list below is based primarily off the expanded nationwide USA release dates on IMDB as well as some other random outlets if possible, so some information may be different. If I am missing some of the limited releases or the dates conflict in some fashion, please let me know in the comments below and any adjustments and corrections will be made!
Without further ado, another new month means another new set of films, so what's coming soon to theaters in February 2019?
RELEASE DATE: February 1, 2019
Jacob's Ladder
Synopsis: After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. A remake of the 1990 thriller starring Tim Robbins.
Will I watch? = No
Miss Bala
Synopsis: Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength. Based on the Spanish-language film.
Will I watch? = No
Arctic
Synopsis: A man stranded in the Arctic after an airplane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown in hopes of making it out alive.
Will I watch? = No
RELEASE DATE: February 8, 2019
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Synopsis: It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
Will I watch? = Yes
What Men Want
Synopsis: A woman is boxed out by the male sports agents in her profession, but gains an unexpected edge over them when she develops the ability to hear men's thoughts.
Will I watch? = No
Cold Pursuit
Synopsis: A snowplow driver seeks revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son. Based on the 2014 Norwegian film 'In Order of Disappearance'.
Will I watch? = No
The Prodigy
Synopsis: A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.
Will I watch? = No
Everybody Knows
Synopsis: Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister's wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Will I watch? = No
Under the Eiffel Tower
Synopsis: Stuart is a having a mid-life crisis. Desperate for something more in life, he tags along on his best friend's family vacation to Paris - then proposes to his friend's 24-year-old daughter, Rosalind, while standing under the Eiffel Tower.
Will I watch? = No
RELEASE DATE: February 15, 2019
Happy Death Day 2U
Synopsis: Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.
Will I watch? = No
Alita: Battle Angel
Synopsis: An action-packed story of one young woman's journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world.
Will I watch? = Yes
Fighting with My Family
Synopsis: A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment.
Will I watch? = Yes (ugh)
Isn't It Romantic
Synopsis: A young woman disenchanted with love mysteriously finds herself trapped inside a romantic comedy.
Will I watch? = No
This One's for the Ladies
Synopsis: This documentary explores the sexual and social identity of contemporary black America through intimate, eye opening and often hilarious accounts from women and men who find love and community in the underground world of exotic dancing.
Will I watch? = No
Birds of Passage
Synopsis: During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
Will I watch? = No
RELEASE DATE: February 22, 2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Synopsis: When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn't the only Night Fury, he must seek "The Hidden World", a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first.
Will I watch? = Yes
The Rhythm Section
Synopsis: A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.
Will I watch? = No
The Turning
Synopsis: A young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw".
Will I watch? = No
Run the Race
Synopsis: Against the backdrop of high school football and track, two brothers in a small Southern town face escalating problems with two different world views, straining - but ultimately strengthening - the bonds of brotherhood.
Will I watch? = No
6 FLICKS PICKS
Which films make the cut?
6. The Prodigy — Nope, but given the options...
5. Cold Pursuit — Again, nope, but at least there might be a joke or two in the movie that I laugh at.
4. Fighting with My Family — Uuuuugggh I have to see this crap in order to have the proper context to cover it for Smark Out Moment. Damn it. I didn't even really love Paige as a performer, let alone think this movie looks decent.
3. Alita: Battle Angel — I'm not familiar with the source material and I don't think I'd like this all that much beyond just "meh" but it's more up my alley than most films this month.
2. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World — The previous two movies were good. Might as well round out the trilogy.
1. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part — Batman was better than the first movie, but yeah, this is the only one I know for sure I'll see in theaters.
WHICH MOVIES ARE YOU INTERESTED IN CHECKING OUT?
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Posted by
Anthony Mango
- Saturday, January 26, 2019
Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.
Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:
New Ghostbusters Movie
Oh look, they finally want to do the thing that they should have done YEARS ago, when they could have had all four Ghostbusters (if not five, with Moranis) in the movie, but decided to dawdle, wait until Ramis died, then do that stupid all women version. Now, they can't get it to be as good as it could have been.
What I'm hoping is they do what needs to be done. They need to say that Egon is gone and they lost their top scientist and they need a new one, which can be one of the four or five new Ghostbusters, and that "smart one" needs to be either a woman and/or a minority to help it not be another scenario where it was just a bunch of white guys and Winston was on the sidelines.
Then, they need to make Oscar the protagonist and have them confirm that he's the son of Peter. Sigourney Weaver needs to appear alongside Bill Murray. He should have a love interest in the film who either is the scientist that I mentioned above, or some new character (I'd love for it to be Peck's daughter played by Emma Stone and I'd love for her to have an interest in the occult based on her father's dealing with the Ghostbusters in the past). I'd love for the team to be Oscar (make him the asshole like Peter), Winston's son (make him the heart like Winston, copy/paste but it works, or make him the tough one, like a former military guy who kicks their asses into gear and makes a team out of them who can actually do the job), the smart one (male/female, doesn't matter, but the new Egon; dorky, ideally female) and ideally the Peck witchcraft daughter who is rebellious and fun in her own way and all.
We'll see.
Unsolved Mysteries is Returning
I trust the people from Stranger Things, and the concept is simple enough that it's hard to mess up. Neat.
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
I'm not a gamer, but it really seems like games nowadays fall into two categories: they're either cheap and easy multiplayer fighting or shooting games with little to no story (and even then, it's a shell just to explain why people are fighting) or they're some mobile puzzle thing.
If I had any modern consoles or a PC that I dedicated to gaming, I'd love to play a Power Rangers game that was a real game with a story and all. I have no interest, personally, in something that's just "pick your character and fight another character and then fight another and then another" and if I do, I'd play Street Fighter or something else like that, you know?
The New Mutants Getting Delayed Again?
Rumors suggesting they'll push it back to November, if not just release it on Hulu, instead.
YES, put it on Hulu. Don't put this in theaters. It's not going to do well. It's only going to hurt the franchise's potential by putting a bad taste in people's mouths.
If people are interested in seeing this, they'll venture to Hulu to see it. If not, they'll not bother with it. But if you put it out in theaters, more people will see it by nature and if it sucks that bad, you'll just be setting them up to not trust more X-Men films in the future.
Young Justice: Outsider Mid-Season Break
The first half of this season of Young Justice has finished airing.
Let me reiterate something I've said many times in the past, that I love how adult this show is and how they treat the Justice League like a military unit, because eventually, that's how the team would operate. Expansion of members, utilizing people for their strengths, etc. I love that so much.
These last bunch of episodes were totally crazy, like the Doom Patrol Go thing and all the use of random characters like Metamorpho and Harper Row. I loved it. Court of Owls, even? Awesome.
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Posted by
Anthony Mango
- Wednesday, January 23, 2019
The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards have been announced, so it's time for us to talk about some of the surprises, snubs and our predictions of which movies will take home an Oscar in 2019.
A FEW NOTES BEFORE WE START:
Every year, I feel the need to point out when the list of movies feels largely unappealing to me and this time around, the same thing has happened. Something like The Favourite just does not come off as interesting to me and I don't think I could justify sitting down and watching that unless it does win a ton of awards.
As such, my opinion is going to be heavily skewed by face value interpretations, my attempts to predict how other people will view things through politics and typical b.s. like that, and what other analysts are saying, for the vast majority of the categories below.
Yaaaay for not having more interesting topics to cover as nowadays, every movie that's worth something at the Oscars has to be a historical drama or about some kind of marginalized group seeking their place in the world. Yawn.
I'm sure most of these movies won't ever be brought up in a conversation beyond Academy Awards season unless you're a film snob and you think you're holier than thou because you don't like "mainstream" things and you want to prove to your friends how educated and cultured you are because you can get on a soapbox and rant about If Beale Street Could Talk or Isle of Dogs instead of being a more likable person at a party.
CHECKLIST OF MOVIES BELOW:
* = I've seen the film
(#) = number of total nominations
The Favourite (10)
Roma (10)
A Star is Born (8)
Vice (8)
* Black Panther (7)
BlacKkKlansman (6)
* Bohemian Rhapsody (5)
Green Book (5)
First Man (4)
Mary Poppins Returns (4)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (3)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (3)
Cold War (3)
If Beale Street Could Talk (3)
Isle of Dogs (2)
Mary Queen of Scots (2)
Never Look Away (2)
RBG (2)
* A Quiet Place (1)
At Eternity's Gate (1)
* Avengers: Infinity War (1)
Border (1)
Christopher Robin (1)
First Reformed (1)
* Incredibles 2 (1)
Mirai (1)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (1)
* Ready Player One (1)
* Solo: A Star Wars Story (1)
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (1)
The Wife (1)
+ giving myself a bonus point for having seen Bao (1)
THOUGHTS AND PREDICTIONS:
Now, onto my predictions, which I'll be updating as time goes on and I potentially watch any of these movies.
BEST PICTURE
THOUGHTS: Logic would dictate if The Favorite has the most nominations and is covered all over the place, it's probably going to win, right? However, Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book took home the Golden Globes. While it's not a guarantee or anything, I feel there's a strong chance Roma gets Best Foreign Language Film and NOT this because people won't want to vote for it twice and it'll have more competition and some people won't want to vote for a Netflix movie. I don't think Rhapsody has it. I think enough people are probably sick of the Lady Gaga stuff and A Star is Born fluff and no Best Director nomination hurts that. All in all, as much as I think it would be super rad if Black Panther were to win, I'm leaning toward Green Book to take it home.
PREDICTION: Green Book
BEST ACTOR
THOUGHTS: Something just feels right to me about Rami Malek winning. Maybe it's because he's playing a character who isn't a stereotypical "straight and white" guy and that can give him an edge. Maybe it's just because he won the Golden Globe. If not him, Viggo Mortensen feels like #2 to me.
PREDICTION: Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody
BEST ACTRESS
THOUGHTS: Do they give it to Lady Gaga for the sake of giving it to Lady Gaga, or does she need another 99 people out of 100 in a room to give her the win? Glenn Close beat her out. Maybe she does again? The same for Olivia Colman? Or is Colman more of someone who lots of people put on their list, but would be their #2 or #3?
PREDICTION: Glenn Close for The Wife
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
THOUGHTS: I have no idea.
PREDICTION: Mahershala Ali for Green Book
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
THOUGHTS: Absolutely no idea. Amy Adams seems like a throwaway nomination for the sake of liking her? Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz cancel each other out? Then, it's either Regina King or Marina de Tavira and fuck it, let's just guess.
PREDICTION: Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST DIRECTOR
THOUGHTS: Total shot in the dark, they can give this to Roma to avoid giving it Best Picture, as this and Foreign Language Film is like a twofer in replacement for the big category.
PREDICTION: Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THOUGHTS: I literally have no idea right now.
PREDICTION: The Favourite
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THOUGHTS: I literally have no idea right now.
PREDICTION: BlacKkKlansman
BEST FILM EDITING
THOUGHTS: Until I see more, I'm not going to have a clue what the editing style is like, but I'll just take a shot in the dark at the moment.
PREDICTION: Vice
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
THOUGHTS: Very surprised Aquaman isn't on this list, as I thought it should have been a potential winner. Bumblebee...meh, we've seen it before five times. A bunch of others, whatever. To me, this is a race between Infinity War, Ready Player One and Mary Poppins Returns. It depends on if they want to go with spectacle, sheer amount, or nostalgia.
PREDICTION: Avengers: Infinity War
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
THOUGHTS: No idea.
PREDICTION: Roma
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
THOUGHTS: Oooo this is tough. They love their period pieces and The Favourite can certainly win that. But does that mean they go with that, or do they opt to go for the whole African culture angle with Black Panther instead?
PREDICTION: Black Panther
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
THOUGHTS: Again, period piece stuff with fancy dresses seems to be the bread and butter of this category, but Black Panther had tons of tribal material and could definitely snatch this away. I'm going to hedge my bets.
PREDICTION: Black Panther
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
THOUGHTS: Look at Christian Bale.
PREDICTION: Vice
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
THOUGHTS: Having not seen the other movies yet, I have to lean toward Black Panther because I liked some of the songs used in that.
PREDICTION: Ludwig Göransson for Black Panther
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
THOUGHTS: If not just to get Lady Gaga to perform...
PREDICTION: "Shallow" from A Star is Born
BEST SOUND EDITING
THOUGHTS: Four out of five films are nominated for both Editing and Mixing. This makes me think A Quiet Place could win this for standing out as special, but if not, and it goes to the other four, that makes sense due to being nominated so much.
PREDICTION: A Quiet Place
BEST SOUND MIXING
THOUGHTS: Basically, the same applicable thing as what I said for Editing, but swap A Quiet Place for A Star is Born. However, I'm going to hedge my bets again and not go with that switch, by picking one of the four other movies.
PREDICTION: First Man
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
THOUGHTS: Lots of people loved Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in ways that I don't even think are all that super duper amazing, but I did enjoy it, too. Let's go with that momentum. It's not going to be Incredibles 2 and I don't think it'll be Ralph Breaks the Internet, so I think the other two (Isle of Dogs and Mirai) are from people who think on a different spectrum for animation and we'll see Spider-Man take the cake in a more popular vote.
PREDICTION: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
THE REST OF THE CATEGORIES
Including:
Best Animated Short Film
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Live Action Short Film
THOUGHTS: No nomination for Won't You Be My Neighbor? in documentary feature? Bao better win animated short. I'm assuming Roma wins Best Foreign Language Film for sure. Largely, though, I know nothing about these categories and I never do, so if I do any predictions, they're just shots in the dark and you don't want to hear my pointless ramblings about things I'm not in the slightest bit knowledgable about. I have no idea which movies should have been nominated but weren't, which films should not have been nominated but were, or anything else like that. Essentially, I could put all of them up on a dart board and whatever I hit, those are my picks, and I'd probably do just as well as if I tried to guess blindly on my own merits. If you know anything about any of those films, feel free to enlighten me in the comments section so I can try to check them out if I can get access to any of them before the ceremony takes place.
OVERALL THOUGHTS
This year is very unpredictable, which is a good thing, as it means it isn't likely that one movie will sweep and just destroy everything. That could happen, of course, but I don't think it will. The downside to that, though, is that this can go down as a year that people don't remember being a strong one for movies, as I don't think we'll be hearing too many people bringing up Roma and The Favourite and A Star is Born and Green Book and whatnot in many regular conversations about film.
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- Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Awards season is in full swing, but while the Golden Globes and Academy Awards celebrate the best of the year, the Golden Raspberry Awards poke fun at the worst movies to have come out over the past 12 months. The 39th annual ceremony will take place February 23, 2019.
Here is the list of the nominees for the 2019 Razzies Awards.
WORST PICTURE
Gotti
The Happytime Murders
Holmes & Watson
Robin Hood
Winchester
WORST ACTOR
Johnny Depp (voice) for Sherlock Gnomes
Will Ferrell for Holmes & Watson
John Travolta for Gotti
Donald J. Trump (as himself) for Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9
Bruce Willis for Death Wish
WORST ACTRESS
Jennifer Garner for Peppermint
Amber Heard for London Fields
Melissa McCarthy for The Happytime Murders and Life of the Party
Helen Mirren for Winchester
Amanda Seyfried for The Clapper
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jamie Foxx for Robin Hood
Ludacris (voice) for Show Dogs
Joel McHale for Happytime Murders
John C. Reilly for Holmes & Watson
Justice Smith for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kellyanne Conway (as herself) for Fahrenheit 11/9
Marcia Gay Harden for Fifty Shades Freed
Kelly Preston for Gotti
Jaz Sinclair for Slender Man
Melania Trump (as herself) for Fahrenheit 11/9
WORST DIRECTOR
Etan Cohen for Holmes & Watson
Kevin Connolly for Gotti
James Foley for Fifty Shades Freed
Brian Henson for Happytime Murders
The Spierig Brothers (Michael and Peter) for Winchester
WORST SCREENPLAY
Death of a Nation
Fifty Shades Freed
Gotti
Happytime Murders
Winchester
WORST REMAKE, RIPOFF OR SEQUEL
Death of a Nation (remake of Hillary’s America)
Death Wish
Holmes & Watson
The Meg (ripoff of Jaws)
Robin Hood
WORST SCREEN COMBO
Any two actors or puppets (especially in those creepy sex scenes) - Happytime Murders
Johnny Depp and his fast-fading film career - Sherlock Gnomes
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly (trashing two of literature’s most beloved characters) - Holmes & Watson
Kelly Preston and John Travolta (getting Battlefield Earth-type reviews!) - Gotti
Donald J. Trump and his self-perpetuating pettiness - Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9
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- Sunday, January 20, 2019
Welcome to my breakdown of season 2 of Marvel's The Punisher on Netflix! Per usual, this post will be documenting my running commentary of thoughts as I watch every episode. I'll be adding notes almost as a stream of consciousness and when everything has concluded, I'll be wrapping everything up with a full season recap and review to see just how good or bad the overall package was and the hits and misses in a Reviewpoint podcast video.
I invite you to follow along and to leave your thoughts in the comments below just the same!
Marvel's The Punisher (Season 2 - 2019)
SHOWRUNNER: Steven Lightfoot
STARRING: Jon Bernthal (Frank Castle / Punisher), Ben Barnes (Billy Russo / Jigsaw), Amber Rose Revah (Dinah Madani), Jason R. Moore (Curtis Hoyle), Giorgia Whigham (Amy Bendix), Josh Stewart (John Pilgrim), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Corbin Bernsen (Anderson Schultz) and Annette O'Toole (Eliza Schultz)
*WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS BELOW!*
Episode 1 - "Roadhouse Blues"
- Full disclosure, I normally start these as soon as they premiere, but I didn't for this. I waited 2 days. Why? Well, it's not because I'm not interested or because I didn't like the first season. It's because all of these shows are getting cancelled and I know this isn't going to have anything to do with anything, it'll be its own contained story that will probably drag on too long like most of these seasons, and it's hard to watch these. So nope, no binging start to finish. No rush to watch. I hope this ends up being as good as Daredevil's third season and I breeze through it and love it. I don't have a ton of faith in that being the case for all 13 episodes.
- Ew, you're not helping my case by starting off with country music.
- Instantly don't like this woman for being abrasive right out of the gate. I don't want to go through some 7 episode journey of her warming up. Give me characters I like and I'm interested in, not people I have to tolerate and learn how to deal with. Bleh. I hope I'm wrong. It's only a minute in, so I'm not giving them credit.
- Johnny needs a bullet. Pig.
- Ringo's awesome. He'd better not die.
- Hey, at least Frank, I mean Pete, is trying to move on. Good for him. Beth is so dead because of that.
- Well damn, now I want pancakes, too. Good guy Pete/Frank.
- At least Rex isn't a stereotypical total pain in the ass kid like normal.
- Can we just keep Beth around instead of this other girl? I like Beth.
- Stop it with the country...eeuuuggghhh....
- We're dragging this shit out so much. I didn't need four or five stupid country songs. C'moooon get to the next thing. Tighter editing, everyone. These Marvel Netflix shows suffer SO much from pacing issues. Jeez.
- Did Frank just give that woman a uranage? Cool. Now do some Sweet Chin Music.
- Ringo with the chokeslam!
- Oh man, don't be stabbing Ringo like that.
- Of course both Ringo and Beth need to die and the annoying girl is going to live.
- Imagine what it would be like if we had a Scourge of the Underworld Bar with No Name thing.
- You killed Ringo, so at least let Beth live and have Frank choose to leave for her safety.
Episode 2 - "Fight or Flight"
- Yeah I really don't like this girl. Stop being such a constant stick in the mud.
- Just kill Rachel and save yourself the trouble hahaha
- Opening credits, which actually is going to be when I call it quits for right now, since I made the mistake of starting this at 6am.
- I still feel like Madani should be partnered up with Martin Soap. For that matter, The Russian should make an appearance.
- Good job, Beth, going with the name Pete instead of Frank. Smart move.
- Well, never mind.
- I'm always curious why people don't just say something similar instead of giving up the right information. She went with Pete, which was good, but she said Castiglione. She could have said Pete Costanza, you know?
- I'd at least eat the dinner if I were Dinah. Dinner Madani.
- Practically everything that comes out of Rachel's mouth makes me dislike her and pointing a gun at Frank now is even worse cause there's no reason for her to think that he's anything but a positive after all this. He's surly, yeah, but he saved her life and hasn't done anything to harm her since.
- Why doesn't Frank just pop a bullet in the woman he just knocked out? He already killed everyone else and he's now fought her twice, and he knows she'll wake up and come after them, so why not just...wait, okay, better strategy for sure. Wait, that's the downside is when she wakes up and shoots you.
- I hope this cop doesn't buy Rachel's bullshit.
- Don't be a bitch, Madani.
Episode 3 - "Trouble the Water"
- These insect noises or whatever actually made me think something was going wrong with my sound system. Not a fan.
- I like Deputy Ogden. Don't kill that guy. Give him his $5 back.
- Brett!
- Nice try, asking for Frank's sandwich.
- At least Ogden is likely to survive if he leaves. Sucks for the sheriff and the rest. Oh damn, they're gonna shoot him aren't they? Fuck. I liked Ogden.
- "Sweet boneless Jesus" hahaha
- That can of coke is still not hit?
- Hardin and Ogden are class.
- Yaaaay Hardin and Ogden are going to survive! And he got his five bucks back. Even better.
- Good episode.
Episode 4 - "Scar Tissue"
- Anyone else thinking of Red Hot Chili Peppers with this title?
- "What do you want, freak?" / "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle."
- You can't be asking questions, Rachel, if you aren't giving any information, either. So...shut up.
- We're now 4 episodes in and there's no Micro yet. I hope he at least pops up somewhere along the line. Also, battle van.
- I'm still not feeling all that incredibly bad for Rachel.
- Oh hey, Curt.
- Between Bullseye and Billy, I think we can draw some parallels. Don't let kids play baseball, and don't name them something close to baseball (basebill, baseballseye, etc)
- Yeah, Arthur needs to die.
- WHIH news. Nice.
Episode 5 - "One-Eyed Jacks"
- Turk!!!!! Give him the Mind Stone.
- Tell me, Dinah, do you still sleep with a gun under your pillow?
- Everyone has such nice places to live.
- I don't know if Lombardi's is a real place, but I want it.
- OMG enough with the fucking bugs.
- I totally don't trust Dumont. I haven't from the start.
Episode 6 - "Nakazat"
- Well, now you've got at least one gun.
- Kill this guy, Frank.
- Haha nice job burning the place. At least that's something.
- Who is this dude at the restaurant? That actor looks SO familiar and I can't place him...
- You mean to tell me she had the perfect clothes that were reversing and all? Give me a break.
- "Call me old fashioned but I don't work with Russians" hahahaha
- "Thanks guys. I mean it, thanks." Yeah, that really helped you out, didn't it? Now, you're going to Texas with nothing, including your support group.
- So much for not getting shot in the head.
- I just noticed that Dumont was on Lethal Weapon and the guy who played her dad was a cop on that show and is a cop on this show. Interesting.
- Oh just fuck Billy already, why don't you? You clearly want to.
- Curtis needs to play Father to these two.
Episode 7 - "One Bad Day"
- You know, for getting shot in the head, Madani doesn't even have anything wrong with her hair. No scarring preventing that area from growing or whatever. Just saying.
- Krista's a biter.
- Billy hits it and quits it.
- Remember how I keep complaining about the pacing issues of these shows? We've just abandoned Amy and that whole subplot while they get distracted with this Billy story and that just proves how they shouldn't have been dragging that out. It should have been six episodes of the Amy story and then six of the Billy thing that was only tangentially set up in the meantime.
- Don't let all these people die just because you're proud, Lilian.
- Do not feed the pigeons.
Episode 8 - "My Brother's Keeper"
- You've got to admit that Brett at least is on the right side, as much as he's adversarial for this particular set of goals.
- Wasting time. This episode is largely just pointless bullshit discussions that aren't accomplishing anything. People are having arguments just for the sake of eating up an episode's worth of time.
- Why doesn't Curtis just tell Delia something like "Sorry, a bunch of the guys I help out with are in some really bad stuff right now and I'm trying to help them out. I'll let you know when I'm back." or something? It isn't that hard.
- Giving a lot of consideration to just skipping this whole episode.
- Instead, I've just been only 1/3 paying attention. Not even half.
- I do want some spaghetti, though.
Episode 9 - "Flustercluck"
- "Have you forgotten about Pilgrim? Yeah, we did, too. We just didn't have enough material for a full season and hoped we had enough other stuff with Billy to keep you distracted while we stalled."
- Can we go somewhere? Accomplish something? We just had a waste of an episode and now I'm 17 minutes into this one and NOTHING has happened. I'm beyond bored.
- Zzzzzzzzzzz
- I do like the touch of having Frank kill the guy so Amy didn't officially have a murder on her conscience.
- Oh shit, what's his face, from Person of Interest. I loved that guy. He would have been a perfect Detective Bullock in a Batman film. Still could be.
- What a waste of an episode, again. The next one better not be, but I'm taking a break regardless. I don't feel the need to keep binging right now.
Episode 10 - "The Dark Hearts of Men"
- Still dawdling and wasting time...
- Curtis is such a good guy.
- I don't remember there being this many people in Russo's crew.
- Did Frank actually shoot those girls? I must have missed that.
Episode 11 - "The Abyss"
- Can Amy do something other than sit back?
- Karen!
- That reminds me, no Microchip still, and no Martin Soap.
- At least they didn't wait until episode 13 to expose that Frank didn't kill those girls.
- I was really thinking Pilgrim was going to kill Schultz there.
- A foot fetish? Yeah, no wonder people think you're weird, dude.
- So wait, all we accomplished in this episode was Frank STILL being in custody? Come on man, stop wasting my fucking time. This is the fourth episode in a row that didn't need to be a thing. They could have combined all the worthwhile elements of these four episodes into one and a half.
Episode 12 - "Collision Course"
- Finding it very difficult to care about this second half of this season with all this waste. I'm bored and I just want it to end. If there was an option to watch this at 1.5x speed, I would.
- Hey, that florist just had the best interaction anyone has had over two seasons with this whole crew. He's going home that night feeling happy instead of, you know, with a bullet to the brain and a knife in the chin or something.
- Now, Dinah's going to be the next Jigsaw as her face has a cut on it. Ha.
- Weird choice of music.
Episode 13 - "The Whirlwind"
- Yeah, Madani isn't dead. I'm not buying that. They wouldn't kill her like that.
- Eventually, you two are going to put so many holes in this wall that you'll be able to just walk through it and---okay, yup.
- Fuck that whole bullet extraction thing. I hate when I get a hangnail.
- That simple, eh? RIP Jigsaw.
- Well, he's totally killing himself.
- Yup.
- Frank definitely needs to go back to see Beth.
- What a lackluster ending.
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- Saturday, January 19, 2019
On the latest edition of the Fanboys Anonymous REVIEWPOINT podcast, host Tony Mango breaks down the hits and misses of Glass by discussing what worked, what didn't, and whether you should see it or skip it.
GLASS (2019):
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
M. Night Shyamalan
STARRING:
Bruce Willis (David Dunn), Samuel L. Jackson (Elijah Price / Mr. Glass), James McAvoy (Kevin Wendell Crumb), Sarah Paulson (Dr. Ellie Staple), Anya Taylor-Joy (Casey Cooke), Luke Kirby (Pierce), Spencer Treat Clark (Joseph Dunn) and Charlayne Woodard (Elijah's Mother)
M. Night Shyamalan brings together the narratives of two of his standout originals—2000's Unbreakable, from Touchstone, and 2016's Split, from Universal—in one explosive, all-new comic-book thriller: Glass. From Unbreakable, Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn as does Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, known also by his pseudonym Mr. Glass. Joining from Split are James McAvoy, reprising his role as Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities who reside within, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, the only captive to survive an encounter with The Beast. Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
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- Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.
Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:
The Green Lantern Intergalactic Police Patrol
Um...I don't think GLIPP is a better thing than GLC with the Green Lantern Corps. If you were renaming anything with that franchise, I'd think it would be better to rename the individual soldiers within the GLC so we're not calling the characters "Green Lantern" and having to distinguish by their real names, as to me, "Green Lantern: Hal Jordan" is still missing an element than what we do with the military. "Sergeant Hal Jordan", for instance, could be referred to as just Sergeant, but in a world of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc, it's still confusing that when you tell people "Green Lantern" you have to then do a whole discussion on "which one" you're talking about. Anyway...GLIPP sounds dumb :)
Black Widow to be Rated R?
Rumor has it, they're at least considering this, but c'mon. This isn't going to be rated R. It's just a slow news day/week.
M:I 7 and M:I 8 in Summer 2021 and Summer 2022
Tom Cruise tweeted this out. Christopher McQuarrie is returning and they'll be filmed back-to-back. I'm so down. These movies just keep getting better and this team knows what they're doing.
Possible Villains for Disney+ Shows
Kid Loki and Kid Thor against Ulik the troll and Karnilla. I'm unfamiliar with Karnilla, but I always thought it was strange Ulik wasn't in a movie yet.
Agatha Harkness (who I'm unfamiliar with) as the lead villain for a Vision/Scarlet Witch story about trying to give Vision a soul. I'm intrigued.
Clint Barton training Kate Bishop to be the new Hawkeye with Trickshot as the villain. That makes perfect sense.
Bucky and Falcon enlisted by S.H.I.E.L.D. to take down US Agent. SUPER into that idea, but I still really hope both Cap and Stark don't die in Endgame :(
Lady Sif against The Enchantress makes a lot of sense, and Beta Ray Bill being involved sounds cool too.
War Machine dealing with theft of Stark tech. Maybe that can be Spymaster?
Spider-Man: Far From Home Teaser Trailer
Happy and May flirting? Whaaaat?
Ugh I really hate how they're sticking with this MJ thing.
Nick f'n Fury. The man.
Mysterio looks cool.
Side note: Why does every trailer nowadays have a 1-5 second pre-trailer teaser thing advertising that it's a trailer? Ridiculous.
Batman: TAS Character Kyodai Ken Joins the DC Comics Universe
I'm all for when they use characters from preexisting material instead of making up a brand new character that fulfills the same exact purpose. Kyodai Ken wasn't someone I found particularly memorable, but hey, he's out there, so you might as well use him, right? Very cool.
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- Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Reign of the Supermen is the latest in the line of animated DC direct-to-video films. Is it worth the watch or it is something that should be skipped?
Reign of the Supermen
Directed by Sam Liu
Written by James Krieg and Tim Sheridan
STARRING:
Jerry O'Connell (Clark Kent / Superman / Cyborg Superman), Cameron Monaghan (Superboy), Rosario Dawson (Wonder Woman), Nathan Fillion (Hal Jordan / Green Lantern), Rebecca Romijn (Lois Lane), Rainn Wilson (Lex Luthor), Jason O'Mara (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Patrick Fabian (Hank Henshaw), Cress Williams (John Henry Irons / Steel), Jennifer Hale (Martha Kent), Shemar Moore (Cyborg), Brenda Strong (Lillian Luthor), Charles Halford (The Eradicator / Bibbo Bibbowski), and Tony Todd (Darkseid)
WARNING - SPOILERS BELOW
Here are some specific thoughts that ran through my mind during the course of the film as a stream of consciousness:
- Off to a good start with this intro.
- Obligatory reference to how I like this animation style.
- Wait, Sullivan? Is that Chloe?
- "I know what to ask these guys." Cut to: "Are you the real Superman, like, for real?"
- Nice ice cream reference.
- Lois at the cocktail party is a knockout.
- I still don't like Rainn Wilson as Lex Luthor.
- "I have the shot" hahahaha
- I don't remember Darkseid being any part of the Death of Superman story
- Dafuq Eric. Leaving Becky out to dry like that.
- WORLDS COLLIDING! A SEINFELD REFERENCE! LMAO
The movie's a good watch, but it's not as good as I was hoping it would be, nor as good as its predecessor. I'd recommend it for anyone interested in this series, yet not as enthusiastically as I would some of the others. The action set piece at the end felt like it just went on and on, and I would have rather had some more character moments instead. The Darkseid stuff felt shoehorned and bland.
See It or Skip It = See It!
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- Friday, January 11, 2019
Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.
Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:
Young Justice: Outsiders
The first 3 episodes were released. This is a show that I have tons of problems with, but I love so much. My problems are largely that I feel like things are always a bit chaotic in that they skip around the timeline too haphazardly and want to fast-forward storylines without the proper setup. I almost feel like this should be season 5 or 6, just like I feel season 2 skipped a full season or two that I wanted to see them cover. But hey, I find the characters interesting and I like the animation style and how adult it is AND how they dig deep into the pantheon of characters.
So, keeping that in mind. We've got Ice, Steel, Black Lightning, Katana, Batwoman (not a fan, CW pandering a bit and this character is pointless outside of the LGBT pandering), Hardware (who I know nothing about, admittedly), Arrowette, Halo (largely an unknown to me), Thirteen (who I know nothing about, either), Spoiler (awesome), Troia....I love it.
The design of Dick Grayson is weird in the sense that when his mouth is covered up, with that hairstyle, he looks exactly like Superboy. Why didn't they notice that? Also, I'm simply not a fan of the face mask compared to what Nightwing should look like. But I always love when Grayson is treated well because he's such an underrated character and seeing him kick ass is great. Also, is that Oracle on the com?
Why is Roy Harper now going by "Will" and why haven't we addressed Wally yet?
Justice League vs. The Fatal Five Casting Announcements
Kevin Conroy as Batman is always A+, as well as Susan Eisenberg as Wonder Woman and George Newbern as Superman.
Most of the other ones are kind of unknown to me at face value, like Peter Jessop (Thorak), Matthew Yang King (The Persuader), Sumalee Montano (Emerald Empress), Philip Anthony Rodriguez (Mano), Daniela Bobadilla (Miss Martian). Curious about Kevin Michael Richardson as Mr. Terrific, as I don't picture him having that deep of a voice. Noel Fisher as Brainiac 5, Tara Strong as Saturn Girl, Elyes Gable as Starboy, neat. Interested in hearing Diana Guerrero as Jessica Cruz and having that character appear in general, as for some reason, I've always thought if I could retcon things, I'd like Green Lantern to be a woman and Cruz fits the bill, obviously, even though I don't personally know much about the character's ins and outs.
In any fashion, I'm naturally seeing this and will be reviewing it, so stay tuned.
Batman: The Long Halloween Coming Soon
A two-part film based on this story? Awesome! Especially when it comes to Troy Baker most likely returning as Joker, as he's the next best underneath Mark Hamill in my mind.
Star Trek 4 has been Shelved?
Deadline is saying the fourth film has been put on hold, which would make sense, as there are a handful of problems with trying to get it off the ground. What do they do with Chekov? How do they figure out all the scheduling of all those big stars, including apparently Chris Hemsworth if they want to do some story of bringing him back into the fold? What about the focus on the TV shows? It just seems like they might need to call it quits.
Superman: Red Son Animated Film Coming Soon
Supposedly (and not surprisingly) this is one of the movies DC Animation plans on making. I'm down. I never read the story, but I know it's a wildly popular one that people tout as being great, so you don't need to sell me past that pitch.
Lady Sif Series Coming to Disney+
Good! She should get her own limited series. The whole bunch of them should have. There should be a Lady Sif and The Warriors 3 series and the other three shouldn't have died, especially so poorly. At least they didn't just kill off Sif in some off-screen fashion.
Avengers: Endgame Screening Early for Terminally Ill Fan
Someone with a whole slew of health problems, who may not make it until April (or even be in the right health to see the film) is going to get to see Avengers: Endgame early. This is the type of good stuff I love to see. Obviously, it would be better if the guy wasn't sick to begin with, but in the worst of situations like that, it's great to see people willing to put a smile on his face while they still can.
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