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SUPER CROOKS SERIES REVIEW It seems crime doesn’t pay, even when you have superpowers. Johnny Bolt has made a habit of getting in and out of prison ever since an unfortunate “mishap” caused by his electricity powers meant that he could never be a hero. With his girlfriend, Kasey, Johnny lives stuck as a petty […]

DOOM PATROL SEASON 3 SERIES REVIEW Time to get weird again as we dive into the third season of HBO Max’s adaptation of DC Comics’ “Doom Patrol”. After having its second season cut short due to the pandemic, the new batch of episodes starts off with wrapping up what was left hanging last year before […]

ETERNALS MOVIE REVIEW Director/co-writer Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) unexpectedly joins the MCU to take on one of the most sprawling, esoteric, world-building tales in Marvel’s canon, the story of the group of immortals called Eternals, originally created by the legendary Jack Kirby. The ensemble of superpowered beings guides and watches over humanity, but only intervenes with […]

MY HERO ACADEMIA: WORLD HEROES’ MISSION MOVIE REVIEW One of the world’s most popular anime series has returned with another thrilling, well-animated, and definitely canonical movie.  The plot follows Izuku Midoriya (Justin Briner/Daiki Yamashita) and his fellow U.A. classmates as they join the world’s Pro-Heroes to stop a new threat. A mysterious terrorist group called […]

WHAT IF… SERIES REVIEW We grew up reading those wacky “What if…” comics from Marvel that speculated sometimes seriously about alternate worlds where events happened differently in the comics, like ‘What if Captain America had not vanished during WWII?’ and sometimes not so seriously like with ‘What if the Avengers defeated everybody?’. This new animated […]

THE SUICIDE SQUAD MOVIE REVIEW James Gunn slides on over to pick up the reigns at DC with this second “Suicide Squad” film and the anticipation level, for those of us who dig Gunn’s whole thing, loved his “Guardians of the Galaxy” films AND his pre-big budget crazier fare, was sky high. His version of […]

HOW I BECAME A SUPERHERO MOVIE REVIEW In a world where mutant abilities are commonplace, you’re just as likely to meet a person who uses fire powers to heat up a bowl of soup as meeting a superhero. Or supervillain, for that matter. Yet when superhero liaison, Detective Moreau (Pio Marmaï) and his partner, Schaltzmann […]

LOKI SERIES REVIEW The third of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ tie-in shows is here as Tom Hiddleston returns as Loki. Yes, he died in “Avengers: Infinity War”. But if you were paying attention in “Avengers: Endgame”, that earlier version of Loki who was captured and still a big-bad right at the end of the […]

JUPITER’S LEGACY SERIES REVIEW Shortly after his father’s suicide in 1929, triggered by Black Tuesday, former businessman Sheldon Sampson travels to an uncharted island, where he, his brother Walter, and four others receive superpowers. Sheldon dons a suit, cape, and the moniker Utopian, and with his newly obtained abilities and his super friends at his […]

THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER SERIES REVIEW The second of the Disney+ Marvel shows is here and although it wasn’t quite the watercooler discussion show the previous miniseries was, many argue it’s the superior of the two. The six-episode series follows, in the wake of Steve Rogers’ extreme age jump at the end of […]