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BATTINSON: The Batman For a New Generation

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Holy smokes, Batman Matt Reeves’ The Batman has finally delivered and there are no words that can accurately describe the experience that is this film, so here are a lot of words to try and surmise what might not just be the greatest comic book movie since The Dark Knigh t but what is perhaps *PERHAPS* the absolute quintessential live action Batman flick to end all other Batman flicks. As always, please forgive my insane filibuster of a rant... *SPOILER FREE, SNITCHES – ENJOY YO’SELF* With all due respect, it is imperative to understand exactly why this Batman is so fitting for the age we are living in and in doing so, we must evaluate the recent history of the big screen presence of The Dark Knight in order to fully appreciate the three-hour My Chemical Romance video that is Matt Reeves’ The Batman . First things first: LET THE PAST DIE To appreciate The Batman at all, let us reflect on a quote from the most controversial Star Wars film that will be the bane of the existence of the
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Annual: Top Films of 2021

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Well folks, it happened. Cinema has returned to form despite the world still living amidst a global pandemic for two rounds. It took a minute to come back, but streaming saved the day and Spider-Man saved the movie theaters. 2021 started off to a bold albeit a very experimental start. Zack Snyder got to release his four-hour director's cut of Justice League , and Adam Driver starred in a musical in which featured a singing puppet. The year chugged along at an iffy rate -- Ghostbusters 3 kinda finally happened, and it banked too much on nostalgia for its own good, while a  Matrix 4 actually happened, and that relied on reboot commentary so fierce and far too late that nearly nobody watched it.  The director of Anchorman annoyed a bunch of people off with a pseudo comedy starring Leo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence about global warming disguised as an apocalyptic disaster movie, and Wes Anderson came back with a lukewarm anthology film that ended up still being a delight.  The Sui
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Halloween Kills The Franchise

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Words cannot describe the horror. An unimaginably frustrating experience,  Halloween   Kills  dares to steal the crown for worst  Halloween  movie ever made — hokier than the retconned sequels and uglier than the Rob Zombie remakes. Between the asinine script and the unnecessarily brutal violence, the film is dumbed down to the ranks of a limp-dick Friday the 13th sequel at best. Among the film’s crimes, the most horrifying is how  Kills  manages to not only reprimand the successful 2018 sequel but also exploit the 1978 classic, begging the question as to why we didn’t just leave Michael Myers alone in Haddonfield more than four decades ago. David Gordon Green returns to direct — although difficult to tell that this is the same guy who delivered  Halloween  (2018) — and after a strong opening sequence recreating the events of Michael’s capture in 1978, not just in the way the sequence was shot but down to that Loomis lookalike,  Halloween   Kills  proves by the end of its grueling 1h
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#TheSnyderCut: The Most Ambitious Comic Book Movie Ever Made

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   AKA: The Art of Polishing A Turd A lesson in the failures of DC comic book movies, the visionary filmmaker who couldn't have his way, the studio that heavily interfered, the bit about the guy who directed The Avengers, the cries of loud fanboys who could not be silenced, the power of the hashtag, the streaming service that saved the day, the glimpse of a brighter tomorrow, and ( for the love of God) editing  Look, we're not saying  Zack Snyder's Justice League  is the greatest comic book movie ever made (although it might be the most overdramatic), but there's literally never been anything like this before *Disclaimer: The following ramble is a LOT of words, and we're not sorry. As always, please forgive the foul language and excuse the belligerent behavior. Reader discretion advised* *Spoilers for all things Justice League and DCEU to follow (obvi)* * * * * * PROLOGUE From the film's opening screams (literally), you will immediately know if this very theatr
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