trailer review) - The Protégé

(Exclusive Official Trailer)

Due to the panini, the pandemonium, the pancake mix, the pancetta or whatever we want to label last years infamous word of 2020, the Pandemic, movies went on hold for an entire year.  Of course there were a few that tried to come out and didn't do too well, Bloodshot, Tenet etc, (although having not seen Bloodshot, Tenet WAS the better film), we are currently being inundated with trailers and movies and if I'm being honest, I do feel some films are really going to feel the wrath of a scared and concerned people.  People do not want to go into cinemas due to risking catching a case of Corona Virus 2019.  Movies such as Black Widow has not grossed the money it would have normally on opening weekend and rightfully so, because no one really wants to go to the cinema...oh, and Disney released it also on Disney+ at the same time.  People are being more selective about what they are coming out of their homes to watch.  With that said, right now, cinema's are pretty empty and NOW is the perfect time to go.  Also, with that said, we need a reminder of which films are coming out so we can make that choice.  The Protégé is that movie...maybe.

This trailer could have been better.  A 33 second clip with Samuel L. Jackson and Maggie Q is great but where was the action? Where was the Drama?  They could have at least included 10 more seconds of flash imagery of the movie.  I felt this was lackluster and the fact they spent money on this leads me to believe the movie won't actually be that bad since the studio put some money behind it for this trailer...it's just that, this trailer doesn't do much to get people out of their homes to want to watch it, you know?  Maybe the studio will drop something a bit more substantial and meaty before the movie is out.

Directed by Martin Campbell and starring Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton

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(trailer review) - King Richard

I don't know much about Tennis.  I know how to play it, I think.  You know, hit the ball over the net and the scoring is a little weird, but other than that, I think I am quite competent in swinging a racket and running left to right.  I actually don't mind playing the sport in video games too, but strangely enough, I don't watch it.  I don't watch Venus or Serena Williams play either.  I might have seen a few games here and there if the Tennis is on but, I've never been too involved in sport like that.  I'm the same with Football and other sports, I just don't care for them that much.  But this trailer... this trailer looks sooo so good, I am fully intrigued and would like to see this movie as I'm sure this will go into detail on the amazing work Richard has done for his family especially his daughters.

I don't know much about Serena & Venus' life growing up.  I heard somewhere that the town the grew up in was riddled in gang violence etc, so this movie based on their father and what he did for them looks more than just great.  His drive and how he pushed his family to be the best they can be and to try and keep them off the streets and away from the crime to become the most famous sisters in Tennis we now know them as winning trophies after trophies is something I need to see.  Will Smith is unrecognisable in this as well.  Looks like its going to be an amazingly strong performance and possibly Oscar worthy.

Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and starring Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Jon Bernthal, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Tony Goldwyn & Dylan McDermott

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(trailer review) - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

(Official Trailer)

(Official Teaser)

And just like that, Marvel wants to keep the momentum going and drop yet another trailer for Shang-Chi that shows not only a few scenes we have seen before, but different parts of those same scenes/fights and could there possibly be a reason to not be involved or interested in this movie? I mean they must have thought we have forgotten about this movie or something, like the buzz has died down.

The more I see of Awkwafina, brings me warmth and some much needed comedic value this movie will need to help balance out the tone.  A ruthless father trying to give his son his empire but his son is required to fight for it?  The legend of the Ten Rings?  What is done with the 10 rings and how they are being used in combat also looks great too.  Unless I'm mistaken, like a whip?  Oh and Shang-Ghi's Superhero landing is unrivalled!

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Tony Leung, Fala Chen, Meng'er Zhang, Florian Munteanu, Ronny Chieng, Michelle Yeoh.

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(trailer review) - Ghostbusters: Afterlife

(Mini-Puft Character Reveal Trailer)

(Official Trailer)

When they first dropped a trailer some time in 2019!!! I honestly felt that this rendition AND reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise was seemingly closer to the original in spirit, like a spiritual successor, no pun intended.  Having seen this second trailer, I can definitely confirm and truly believe that this WILL be a much better movie than the all women one they brought out a few years ago.  Not because it was all women or anything like that, but that movie felt like it was a corpse with no heart, there was not much life to it at all and where it was funny in places, it just didn't seem to offer much.

This trailer is GREAT! The tie-ins to the original Ghostbusters movie does not feel forced.  It seems as though the original two are used as an anchor to steady this ship so the story does not go off the rails.  It has enough modern to it whilst bringing back some old school elements, wasn't that that dog-beast-thingy from the first one running out of Walmart!?  I'm 100% down for this and might even watch the first two before I watch this one again.

Directed by Jason Reitman and starring Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd

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(trailer review) - Army of Thieves

It's funny that I read the title of this movie and instantly thought 'Den of Thieves' and questioned myself with, "Didn't they do a film with this name recently?".  My brain knew it was something familiar to me but I couldn't quite place it.  It was only when I pressed play on the trailer and saw the guy from Army of the Dead, that I realised what I was looking at, the prequel to Army of the Dead by Zack Snyder and instantly, I was intrigued.

You see I read about this when I was reviewing Army of the Dead and thought it was a little strange, but of course, interesting.  The world which makes up Army of the Dead is something, for those who liked Army of the Dead, fascinating especially where there might be some time travel involved and the Zombies, might not even be, well...Zombies.  If Snyder can do a series of movies within this world but centred around different things and different story elements, it could be quite compelling, especially if you dig little by little into the Zombie Apocalypse.  This film looks incredibly different to Army of the Dead.  Stylish as per usual, so I have no complaints.

Directed by Matthias Schweighöfer and starring Matthias Schweighöfer, Nathalie Emmanuel, Guz Khan, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Jonathan Cohen, Noemie Nakai &Peter Simonischek

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(series review) [STREAMING] - Masters of the Universe: Revelation

I'll start off by saying, He-Man was 'that guy' when I was growing up.  I remember some of the characters as I had the toys.  He-Man was the toy before the toys for me.  Some guy who turns into this barbarian type guy with a sword who rides a panther of some sort called Battlecat.  Big sword, muscled, defeating evil, yeah buddy!  Masters of the Universe: Revelation was described to be a continuation from this show of the 80's, pick up where that show left off and going forward.  Kevin Smith, a director, stand-up comedian, writer among many other talents, is the showrunner, writer and executive producer.

He-Man is about a man named Adam who uses a magical sword that turns him into a powerful god-like warrior after he utters the words "By the power of Grayskull, I have the power".  He uses this power to thwart the evil demon named Skeletor who seeks the power of Grayskull and the Power Sword.  Skeletor often joins forces with a witch named Evil-Lyn and there are other characters such as Beast Man, Tri-Klops, Merman and Trapjaw just to name a few, in which He-Man must also battle with his friends Teela, Man-At-Arms, Orko, Moss Man, Cringer and others.

The show picks up at the events of a celebration for Teela and her new mantle but is called into action with her friend He-Man as Skeletor is attacking Castle Grayskull.  Along with Man-At-Arms, Cringer and an army, He-Man rushes in to stop Skeletor, but during the fight, things take an unfortunate turn when a mystical orb is broken and all of Eternia and it's magic starts to fade away.  With both He-Man and Skeletor gone, Teela must solve the mystery of the power sword and help to save the universe.

For what it was, I really enjoyed the show.  I had a few gripes but if I'm going to be honest, seeing a modern take of this show, something from my childhood, was enough to have me smiling and enjoying.  Whilst there might be some discrepancies with the amount of screen time certain characters receive on the show and the apparent death of others, I felt the show handed the storytelling well.  I will add, as a major discrepancy, the amount of episodes, five, was simply too short.  Also Lena Headey's voice acting felt unmatched with the character design and it often felt like she was simply reading a script, unlike other voice actors.

Following Teela on her journey to find the Power Sword was different and it felt a little bit like a story of forgive and forget.  I didn't care for any of the directions her character may or may not have been going, as long as it served the story, in which it did.  Without getting into too much spoilers, one of the characters I always liked as a child was side-lined and I believe I would have preferred if they were front and centre considering the gravity of the situation.  Seeing all the villains from back in the day and the fighting filled me with joy, but I felt the show should have been 10 episodes and whilst it ended abruptly, maybe the 5 episodes should have been stretched out into 10 episodes with that cliffhanger at the end.  I feel if we had more of particular characters at the beginning of the show until maybe mid-way through, the show, maybe some backstory and time to love the characters a bit more, other than simply from nostalgia, it would have gripped me a bit more as I felt like a lot of the characters were not fleshed out as much as they could have been, especially for new viewers.

For those who enjoyed it, the cliffhanger will definitely have you coming back for more because we are now chartering into unknown territory, but it will be extremely interesting what will happen next.  I would like to see more of our favourite characters and spend more time with them.  I haven't seen an old school He-Man cartoon show since, well, I was a child.  I may not have even completed the entire run, but for new viewers, we need more time with some of these characters, with the lore, with the world that is He-Man and/or Eternia.  Season two needs to be stronger, but a decent season one, in my eyes, light work.

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(trailer review) - Dune

(Official Trailer)

(Official Trailer Teaser)

Oh right!? We are back here and I don't think the word 'epic' very much justifies nor brings as much gravitas to what this trailer really is.  It needs to be noted that, THIS is a cinema film.  I don't say that to make it seem like other films in the cinema are not, but visually, musically...when the trailer was finished, I said, "I need to see this in the best physical way that will grant the highest and greatest eye stimulation and spectacle because this film looks absolutely beautiful". Hans Zimmer on the score too!!!

We get a bit more here.  Although we got the gist in the previous trailer, this trailer shows us much more. More talking, more action, more scope.  Two families, clans or waring factions battling it out against each other and I'm getting a rich and poor power dynamic, although I could be wrong, but aesthetically.  How long is this movie to capture all of this glory in this trailer? I tell you, although people will think this is modelled after Star Wars in some way or form, this trailer shows us the scope some of these space movies can be...and I'm all here for it.  Oh, I'm not sure how I've never noticed it before, but Zendeya's voice is wow.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa & Javier Bardem.

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(trailer review) - Snake Eyes

(Final Trailer)

(Trailer 2)

(Official Trailer)

This trailer wasn't great, I'm not going to lie.  It played a lot of what we have seen before in previous trailers and whilst that is a good thing not to spoil a movie giving away everything, I also felt like they have in fact, given away everything in this trailer.  For some reason I felt as though this trailer was very hollow.

The cool bike scene seems to have been extended a little and there is a burning building which could be the very end fight scene, but they really didn't need to give away the Storm Shadow reveal, as one, I didn't know he would have been Storm Shadow and would have probably like to have seen that in the movie, and two, to also work that out in the movie. I saw the white suit and instantly thought Storm Shadow and then he says, "Call me Storm Shadow". That's likely the very last short in the movie.  I feel like they are clutching at straws after this trailer but let’s hope the movie is really good and they haven't given everything away in the trailers.

Directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Henry Golding, Andrew Koji, Úrsula Corberó, Samara Weaving, Haruka Abe, Takehiro Hira & Iko Uwais

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(trailer review) - Titans: Season 3

I'm not sure how I feel about this trailer, I'm not.  For the most part, although I enjoyed season 2, it is either the lack of interconnectivity or the gaps between shows, but I feel like this series is forgettable.  Strangely enough though, the second season brought us Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke, his daughter and Superboy.  So, for the most part, not THAT forgettable, but I just thought this trailer would have shown us more.  Are the trailers bad? Are the stories not that engaging unlike Umbrella Academy? or is there just not enough people watching this show so the recapping and talk of elements of the show is simply just getting lost because the show has no buzz? 

I feel somewhat the same with Stargirl too.  You will see I saw the first season of that too, but for some reason, DC movies and shows just don't seem to hit me on a re-watchability level.  It's not even a Marvel vs. DC situation either.  Maybe if there was some interconnectivity, maybe I would be more invested.  I started watching Doom Patrol because of Titans and Doom Patrol is good too.  I'm just hoping I watch this new season and I like it, especially as it could potentially be the last season.  Let's hope other people watch it too as it's not bad of a show.

Directed by Akiva Goldsman and starring Brenton Thwaites, Anna Diop, Teagan Croft, Ryan Potter, Curran Walters, Conor Leslie, Minka Kelly, Alan Ritchson, and Joshua Orpin,

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(film review) - Black Widow

We are currently in a funny place with the MCU at the moment.  I say this because there has been a year with NO MCU movies, the second to last MCU movie, there were some seemingly prominent deaths and the last MCU movie showed us a bit of how life is or will be after the events of Endgame.
On another note, after the year gap AND the MCU now going into TV, MTU (maybe, working title), Disney has now released 3 TV shows connected to the MCU showing the continuation of the stories from our favourite and beloved characters after the events of Endgame.  So where does Black Widow sit within the timeline and having it arrive now, is it a healthy addition to the timeline? Should it have come out now after the events of Endgame? Is it a little too late? Do we even care anymore? Is it any good? Where does it leave the MCU now that it is out?  Soo many questions, soo many...but I guess I can try to answer them starting with, well, the film is good-ish.  I'll explain.

Black Widow picks up after the events of Captain America: Civil War, The Avengers are fractured after a fight and falling out and Natasha is on the run as a fugitive for violating the Sokovia Accords.  She seeks refuge at a safe house where she is met with some supplies, but shortly afterwards, she is attacked by Taskmaster which leaves her catapulted into a situation that involves her mother, father, sister and The Red Room, a training facility for Black Widows she long thought she took down and destroyed.  Natasha must now confront her past, her family and put an end to the Red Room, once and for all.

I believe this film is too late.  This film should have either came out before Endgame between Civil War and Infinity war where it takes place or come out in Phase 2.  There is a lot of politics and behind the scenes reasons as to why this did not happen, but I really do feel that the movie would have hit harder. The movie would have been more compelling and I feel it would have hit the audience harder.  I think more thought would have went into the movie.  It's not that Marvel haven't done a bit of back tracking before like Captain Marvel and at the time Captain America: The First Avenger, but I just felt the movie could have done a bit more with the story and some of the characters.  By all means, this is not a terrible film nor a bad film but I just felt a little underwhelmed although they did use it to set up the future or a few future characters in the MCU going forward.

It's Scarlett Johansson! She has been playing this role for over 10 years, she knows what she is doing and she is excellent as she IS Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow at this point.  Everything about the character is second nature to her as she knows the character soo well that the characters around her need to be strong or stronger and thankfully, Natasha's family is strong.  The mother and the father are played very well by Rachel Weiss and David Harbour respectively, where the sister, played by Florence Pugh knocks it out of the park.  Two sisters who loved each other but grew apart and are somewhat estranged.  The acting is superb and there are no real complaints here, but the villain(s) are just not strong and one of the villains, in my eyes was terrible, similar to something the MCU has done before with one of their villains.  I won't say which film, due to spoilers, but I didn't like that direction at all.  We have come to the point where, people can fly, there are aliens, androids, wizards and super soldiers, so why couldn't this character be more comic book accurate? The story-arc, although I understood, just felt like a waste.

When I said earlier I that I feel they could have done more with the story had they given it proper thought, maybe they had, but since Avengers (Avengers 1 aka Avengers Assemble) when Budapest was mentioned, it would have been nice to have a substantial scene that tied more strongly to the comments made since Budapest kept being brought up.  Although I understand now having scene this movie, maybe a flashback scene would have worked better...show, don't tell.  Unless there are to be more Black Widow movies (and I do believe this CAN happen in between the Black Widow 1 and Endgame) this movie will as a stepping stone to how excellent a character Black Widow is, but if we have no more Natasha, then this movie will simple serve as a footnote to her character, although this film was good, it just wasn't great.  A nice watch but a little underwelming.  Remember when Natasha tells Steve about her "Bikini line" in The Winter Soldier? More epic adventures and encounters with many foes, but none of these are referenced and having such a great character as Natasha, it would have been nice to actually see that, this movie not withstanding.  Just nothing like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, something I had hoped for.

The action in this movie is great every step of the way.  There were some great comedy element too and some real heartfelt moments with the family.  The pacing was excellent although it did seem a little formulaic with quiet moment, fight, quiet moment, fight, quiet moment, fight...I felt like I knew when they were coming.  The Widows were great but all in all, I just wanted more.  The Prison scene, I wanted more. The Black Widows fight, I wanted more. I just wanted more dammit! Maybe I had too high of an expectation.

Unfortunately, due to Covid and people having anxiety to go out, Marvel need to be hitting us hard with their storytelling and their action for people to actually want to go to the cinema otherwise people will just wait for it to appear on Disney Plus.  Whilst that might not be a bad thing for some people, lifestyle and responsibilities etc, but if a film just looks ok, people won't feel inclined to make the effort to go to the cinema and as this film was meant to drop last year, maybe this film would have received the traction it could have got normally had it come out when it did due to the epicness that was Endgame, when now, it's simply watered down and lacking.  My final thought, bring back Scarlett and make a sequel that is somewhat a prequel and sequel to Black Widow, Creed it if you have to, but I feel more Natasha is needed and maybe if done correctly, we can have a stronger bond between these two specific characters due to their actions and the past, where the past catches up to the future in a more significant way.  Hawkeye will be cool, but give us something more.

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(film review) - Fast and Furious 9

The Fast and the Furious franchise started in June 2001.  Considering this movie was meant to come out last year but the studio pushed it back a full year due to Covid-19, released May/June 2021, the 9th instalment marks 20 years of Dominic Toretto, the near, if not, superhuman character infamously known for his street racing and driving Fast & Furious stealing DVD's from the back of trucks in heists, to now taking on an Army of men, assassins, spies, you name it and coming out virtually unscathed with the gravelly mention of "Family" at some point during his speeches.  While the franchise was taking a dip until franchise viagra, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson stepped in, the franchise has leaned more and more into the craziness and absurd with nothing but big explosions, death-defying stunts and, well...Fast cars driving furiously.  Is this 9th instalment any good though? Ummm...I guess?

Dominic Toretto is living a quiet life with his...family, until he is interrupted by...family and is made aware of a distress call from Mr. Nobody, someone they used to work for.  Having investigated, Dom and...family are ambushed by a private Army led by none other than his own brother...family, leaving Dom and crew (I won't say family again) trying to stop Dom's brother from collecting all the pieces to a computer-controlled weapons device called Ares to stop, world domination?

Yeah, it's pretty much the same thing per instalment but wackier and wackier stunts.  The franchise itself is the Tom Cruise playing Ethan Hunt in every Mission Impossible film trying to outdo the last stunt and in this case, well...stunt or level of absurdity.  The plot is likely something they have done before except it is centred around Dom's Brother.  If you haven't seen the trailer, apologies for the tiny spoiler, but Deckard Shaw killed a member of Dom's crew (I tried hard not to say family there) and in this one, the person is alive and well.  There is a huge magnet involved for some reason and well, all the characters have plot armour soo thick, you are really watching for the action and the fun it brings knowing nobody will die, so there isn't any stakes.  

Tyrese was always the butt of the joke in past movies to me, but I liked his character in this one as he made some real valid points about the crew and the missions they have been on.  Whilst seeing all the cast back, plus more from previous films and new ones, I just felt that not all good guys are good and not all bad guys are bad (something mentioned in the Loki series) and it just made me feel that Dom's crew will only get bigger and bigger and survive all the missions they go on.  I'm not looking forward to seeing someone eat it and die, but we need to bring back the stakes.  Maybe even, ground it a bit more and bring back more intense racing.  I understand this is essentially a children's film (if you really think about it) and I know Dom is the star, but he doesn't need to move like he is superhuman when he is far from super human...not even a broken arm, finger or a dislocated shoulder.  I know we saw Hobbs do that but so what? at least he was injured.

I've heard some rumours of more spin-offs, maybe a sequel to Hobbs & Shaw and possibly an all female movie, but at this rate, these films are becoming redundant.  There is only soo far they can go and by this movie, surely they have peaked.  As cool as the music is, the acting, the locations, the actors, the stunts, the fast cars, bulging muscles and explosions are, with no stakes and the increased absurdity, I feel the franchise will soon dip and spinoffs will not even help it.  It's funny and I did enjoy it for the movie it is, but maybe they should cap it here or at 10, not that rumoured 2-3 more movies.  You are as long as Star Wars now...stop it!

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(trailer review) - Marvel Studios' What If...

When Marvel mentioned this a while back, it was an interesting concept because a lot of us MCU fans may have thought this very thing, "What if Steve Rogers didn't become Captain America or what if Tony Stark didn't become Ironman? Well, with this trailer you can now Have some of those questions answered or at least give you some examples of what if... 

This looks great! Some excellent animation, visuals and concepts. I really like the idea of this and although I'm not sure how long each episode would be, seeing Killmonger helping Tony Stark was interesting. I couldn't make out who was Hulk but all these ideas are something to sink our teeth into.  I heard a little while ago, it's a 'What if' for every movie...all 20-something of them.

Starring Jeffrey Wright

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(film review) [STREAMING] - The Tomorrow War

First of all, I'm still awaiting on 'Cowboy, Ninja, Viking', a movie which was meant to star Chris Pratt i heard many many moons ago...maybe something like 5 years ago or more.  Secondly, I'm still awaiting 'Y: The Next Man' or is it, 'Y: The Last Man'? I can't remember the exact title but I think the latter and was also meant to star Chris, I think, so hearing about this and also seeing a trailer threw me because I never heard of it until now.  There could be reasons for that and if I'm honest, this film has great ideas, a great premise and a decent enough execution, but the film as a whole, was...well, a good romp! I'll explain.

Dan Forester (Chris Pratt) is an ex-soldier and science teacher with a wife and daughter.  On the night of a football/Soccer game, Dan receives news he didn't get a job he applied for and whilst watching the football game, the game is interrupted by time-travellers from the future who state the human race will be extinct in 30 years and that they have returned from the future to draft more able bodies to help fight the war in the future. Dan is enlisted, which means he will need to travel into the future to save the world and everyone on it from extinction.

The premise is cool.  The visuals are great. the enemy is excellent and the story is good.  Where this film breaks down for me, is some of the dialogue choices and the third act.  I felt the third act felt rushed and unimaginative. I understood it all but after and excellent 2 acts, the third felt like waste! Even some moments at the very end and something Dan does and I thought "Really???"  Dan is not a superhero, he is a mere man who can die from a headshot to the face.  But this feat he pulls off was beyond super heroic.

The acting was great although I felt Sam should have had a little bit more to do as I liked his character and his small character arc.  His teleportation at the end was random to me and unnecessary...oh and unbelievable.  J.K . Simmons was excellent as always and so was Chris Pratt.  There was a moment at the beginning where these two are talking and something is said and the delivery and the action was poor.  It seems like terrible acting between the both of them so it felt weird to me.  I also thought Edwin Hodge was great too and I like his story, it felt different, especially when you combine his and Sam's characters who were complete opposites.  But besides these things, I loved the visuals, some of the camera choices and there were some real brutal deaths where I would audibly make a sound.  But all in all, I think I might have felt a little let down in the cinema so the Amazon Prime watch was great. I just felt they could have done a touch more and it would have been great. Maybe even drop the third act altogether, I don't know, something just felt a little off by the end, like the movie was a touch too long, yet I've seen longer movies.  Maybe, we could have done without some of the elements in act two to maybe clean up the movies and streamline it.  I'd definitely watch again though.

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(trailer review) - Masters of the Universe: Revelation

(Offical Teaser)

We back here again and this is looking GREAT!!!  Tell me that this trailer does not "bang", please! Let's have a discussion!

As I stated in my last review, "The 1980's was an explosive year for cartoons AND film and it has been extremely difficult to recreate content from that era." - With that said, everyone of around, maybe 30-35 to 40-50 will remember He-Man.  Back in those days, cartoons were great. some campier than others but for the most part, these action cartoons were great! Visionaries, Centurions, M.A.S.K, only to mention a few.  I can take it to Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and Thundercats...and everyone remembers Transformers and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.  Whilst over the years, some IP has been better than others with staying the mainstream, I'd like to think, there is a craving for some of these shows!  I mean, from the list I mentioned, Jayce and the Wheeled Warrior in THIS ANIMATION STYLE WOULD DESTROY THE INTERNET!!! One guy looking for his dad missing in space and a villain named Sawboss is out to kill them, a game of cat and mouse. *shed a tear* The point I am making is that, the 80's has some great cartoons and a revamp like Masters of the Universe is definitely needed.

This trailer gives us MORE.  More characters, more fighting, more sorcery and a upcoming war brewing where they need to get together, put aside their differences to fight Skeletor.  The animation looks fantastic and if you have watched Castlevania on Netflix or Blood of Zeus, aslo on Netflix, the anime style is rewarding for the content in my opinion and Netflix are really doing somethign here and looking to capture a market that Disney, HBO Max and other streaming sites, just aren't at the moment.

Created by Kevin Smith and starring Chris Wood, Mark Hamill, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liam Cunningham, Lena Headey

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(trailer review) - Star Wars: Visions

Whoa whoa whoa!

So I saw this link and I clicked on it which lef me to this trailer/clip showing us what they want to do with Star Wars: Visions.  While ultimately, when this was first announced, everyone looked at the wording, heard/read the description, NOBODY CARED.  I didn't, that's for sure.  But that's because talking about Star Wars Visions isn't really that cool until some concepts are out there and then you can let your mind run wild! This, blimey! 

In case you are unaware, Star Wars the franchise, is inspired by old school Japanese samurai movies/stories.  The aesthetics are loosely samurai visuals with "futuristic" elements and takes on it.  The aesthetics are also loosely western visuals, so a Futuristic, lived in universe combined with Western movies/TV shows and Japanese movies/TV shows. So to see them take the franchise loosely based on Samurai' and Westerns to bring it back to Samurai and Anime BLOWS MY MIND! Did you see the pictures? They look amazing.  And as Anime is blowing up, this is definitely a WIN!!!  This will be an anthology featuring short films.

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(trailer review) - Beckett

Ummm, what is this please? Netflix of recent have been dropping a few gems here and there.  Whilst some shows and movies do need work and they are striving for their own IP and having lost a few IP back to Disney, it is refreshing to see Netflix as an independent studio like MGM, Fox and Sony etc.  But what is this? John David Washington back in a Netflix movie since Malcolm & Marie and this movie looks different but also very intriguing.

I'm not sure what it is, but it comes across as very intense and somewhat racial?  I'm definitely getting some racial tones in here, possibly because it's a bunch of white people chasing and shooting at a black man, especially as he had a white girlfriend and it seems as though she is killed.  I'm thinking the movie, 'The Fugitive' with Harrelson Ford.  Maybe they think he did it?  He's a foreigner on their soil as well, it's all a bit crazy and intriguing and intense.  I think I'm down for it! I do like Alicia.

Directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and starring John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps and Alicia Vikander

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