This one mostly because my wife pointed it out to me. DISENCHANTED does seem to be a handy primer on the dangers of wishes…
…particularly when you’ve just wished for a fairy-tale life, and you’re a stepmother. That could be very amusing to watch. Was the first movie any good, or even any good, when you grade it on a curve?
I didn’t think Disney could wait this long for the heat to die down before doing a third season of THE MANDALORIAN and still get it produced. Shows you what I know, huh?
I dunno. It’s not quite doing it for me. I think it may very well be the lack of Nick Cage. There’s no way NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY is gonna be gonzo enough without Nick Cage.
WEREWOLF BY NIGHT looks like it’s combining the classic black-and-white horror movie aesthetic with the now-classic* 1980s gory horror movie aesthetic, and I am there for it. I have no idea how Marvel’s getting away with putting it on Disney+, but that’s what parental controls are for. …Although that’s a theoretical concept in this household. Both of my kids are devotees of creepypasta, and so far it seems not to have done either any harm. October 7th!
*I truly regret having to remind you that AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON is forty-one years old. So is WOLFEN. THE THING is forty, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is thirty-eight, THE LOST BOYS thirty-five**… that time period is as far away from us now as the 1940s and 1950s classic horror flicks were to me as a teenager. On the bright side: God damn, but the toys are awesome now. Not to mention the baseline medical care.
#commissionearned
**”CRYYYYYYY LITTLE SISTER… Sorry about that.
Subtlety is not going to be ANDOR‘s strong point.
I liked it. MS. MARVEL is fun, in the same that THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL is fun: the people making it fundamentally like comic books, and not for what can be done with them for [INSERT PET CAUSE HERE]. The main character is endearing and the action is good, while being as nonviolent as you can when people are throwing giant balls of solidified energy around. I assume that all of this ends with Young Avengers, or something, and that’s cool.
All in all, I had a good time. Not my favorite Disney+ series (LOKI was my favorite), but definitely fun.
‘Thirsty’ is the term the young’uns use these days, right? We would have just said ‘horny.’ Because it’s that, too. So much so that Twitter slapped on a content warning.
Continue reading The surprisingly thirsty SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW trailer.I’m always a sucker for a time-travel story, mind you. And this one looks like it’s got at least a little thought behind it. Maybe PARALLELS won’t suck?
No, really. I was worried that Kate Bishop would be this already perfect superheroine in every possible way, Clint Barton would be this washed-up old guy who nobody remembers, and him ‘helping’ her would be the only way he could rekindle his heroism. That is… pretty much not what is happening, so far*. Instead, we’re getting a fairly demented, but so far entertaining, Christmas story. I am down for this.
Continue reading Just watched the first episode of HAWKEYE (It’s good!).SHE-HULK doesn’t actually look half bad.
And you can take that any way you like.
