Why blend in when you can stand out?
Sophomore efforts are notoriously polarizing, especially when the original work was commercially or critically lauded. Make something too similar and it's called derivative. Make it too different and you run the risk of alienating the audience that loved the first work. The first Deadpool was like magic in a bottle, being one of the only [...]
Score: 4/5 One of the many burning questions viewers were left with at the end of Avengers: Infinity War was where were Ant-Man and Hawkeye? This movie, which chronologically takes place concurrently with or prior to the aforementioned, shows us why Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) may have been too preoccupied with his own life to be [...]
Score: 4.5/5 The horror genre has had an interesting life. If you ask someone to name off horror movies, you likely will get many of the classic series that began in the 70s and 80s: Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween. However, it's debatable if any of the typical genre movies could [...]
Many people eschew the opinions of professional critics. The popular feeling is that this group fancies themselves as "better" than the masses. They presume to be able to tell whether a work of art is worth consuming or ignoring altogether. Sometimes they have so much power over the general public that if a piece is [...]
