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Review: Shazam! Fury of the Gods
By Christian DiMartino The original Shazam! from 2019 followed a young teenage orphan named Billy (Asher Angel) who was essentially given superpowers, but with a twist akin to Penny Marshall’s Big. When Billy shouts out “Shazam!”, he’s transformed into an adult, muscular version of himself (played by Zachary Levi, very winning), but he still has…
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Review: The Suicide Squad
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is much like Suicide Squad, except it isn’t absolutely awful. Actually, it’s pretty fun. Here is a film that is disgusting, violent, ridiculous, and over-the-top, and unabashedly so. Yet it’s also funny, ranging from funny to hilarious, audacious and when it wants to be, kind of sweet. Gunn, as you…
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Comic Book Films: The Love is Gone
By Christian DiMartino When I was five, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man was the bomb. I loved that movie more than life itself. It was just so much fun, and it had just the right amount of charm (and that upside down kiss is a doozy). Flash forward ten years. The Raimi trilogy ended, and was rebooted with The Amazing…
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