Here is your chance to get a little insight on which film or TV Show you may be keen on seeing or which film or TV Show you may want to miss altogether.
These are Reel Ree:views here, keeping it concrete and reel...and somewhat, unbiased...well as much as possible, that is!
Just to be clear if you have not seen my Top Boy Season 2 review, I have previously explained that if we include both seasons of Top Boy Summer House, we are now looking at season 5 of this magnificent TV show. We have come a long way to come to this point and since we are in the last season, I do not see this ending well for anybody.
Although this is a teaser trailer, with Sully saying he would rather be a monster than food, tells me that this season is going to be dark, gritty with heartbreak, loss, and vengeance among other things. It will be interesting to see if any of Jamie's family will be heavily involved and Sully will be the number one target with maybe Dushane coming to his defence, maybe? I do not know, but I am involved, patiently waiting on the first trailer.
It is at this point in life, no matter who you are, providing you have watched at least 8 movies with Denzel Washington, he is Uncle Denzel. Uncle Denz. Unc Denz. He has been doing his thing for a while and Denzel has always been great. From time to time, you might see a dud movie, but Denzel always delivers, he has always been excellent. Strangely enough, I remember seeing The Equalizer 2 trailer but I just did not get around to seeing the movie. However, this trailer looks great and I would like to know, while this is the final film, could we get more?
This trailer looks solid. I remember watching the first movie and thought, the thinking about the moves before he does them was great. It's cool. It's calculated. It tells you everything about Denzel's character, who is the kind of person who steps into the lion's den and does not even try to sweat as he knows exactly how he will take out the lion once he is inside, but will only step inside if absolutely necessary. Scope out the threat, figure out how you are going to take them out and bish, bash, bosh, everyone is either dead or maimed or both. However, whilst that last scene was great to watch, realistically, the guy with the shotgun would have shot him, no? Anyway, I can not wait. Let me go and find the prequel to this trailer's movie so I can gear myself up for this one.
Just when we thought we got another great Batman movie, this time with Robert Pattinson, a good story and great acting, there definitely was an actor that stood out among the many superb actors in that movie. Colin Farrell. You know, Colin Farrell? He has been in many movies. I initially know him from 'Phonebooth', but he was also in the remake to 'Total Recall' and many other films. He was in the Matt Reeves, 'The Batman' movie. He was The Penguin! He was soo unrecognisable, akin to a Johnny Depp, many (and maybe even you), did not even know it was him. Such good hair and make-up, along with great acting, in some cases, there is an argument to say he stole the movie when he appeared. And just like when John Wick 2 finished and people went out to watch it, the studios behind the movie said there will be more, 'The Continental', here, they also said the same, there will be more, more of Gotham. And here we are, The Penguin.
This trailer, (one I would not really review because it is not a finished or near finished film/show) it is just an "in-production" trailer and what we see here is amazing. The imagery of Gotham. Colin is back in prosthetics and acting the part. If you liked his part in The Batman movie, this is surely going to brighten up your day, because he was excellent and this trailer is just a continuation of this. Dark, gritty...Gotham. This show aims to flesh out The Penguin's rise in Gotham as well as the villains (I'd assume), kind of like what the TV show Gotham did, but better? There will be no boy Batman/Bruce Wayne running around. It would be very interesting to see how this will pan out. Will we just have a season of The Penguin then the sequel to the movie then a season of another character or the second season of The Penguin? Personally, I do not really care, as long as the ball is not dropped on such a great world. This is World-buiding at it's best and I am here for it.
So yesterday I saw an ad for this movie. It looked a little bit like a poster but it was a short audio clip letting us know that a trailer for The Marvels is out today. However, I completely forgot the trailer for this movie was out today, so when I saw a message somewhere saying the trailer dropped, of course, I went to go and watch it. And I will let you know before I get into it I LOVED THIS TEASER TRAILER!
While we are not exactly sure when this is, in the MCU, we are presented with a problem between Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel from the Captain Marvel movie, Monica Rambeau aka Lieutenant Trouble from the WandaVision TV show (as an adult and the Captain Marvel movie as a child) and also Kamala Khan from the Ms Marvel TV show, and right away I can tell you, I will love this movie and Iman Vellani is going to steal this entire movie fangirling over meeting her idol and working with her. I love the energy she brings in the clips and the child-like qualities we have not seen since Spider-Man. The Beastie Boy's Intergalactic was a phenomenal choice for the music. While the MCU needs a win at the moment as a lot of their recent movies have been decent and not excellent. With films leaning more to the comedic side with lacklustre jokes, this trailer worryingly provides this as well, but this movie actually might work. Let's just hope it does work as Ms Marvel was a good watch. It's just a teaser for now.
So I am going to let you all in on a secret I have been, not really keeping to myself, but I guess, keeping to myself, although I am willinging to tell anyone who might ask. I have not seen all the Indy movies. For those who have been following me for a while will know that I like to and try to watch movies from the beginning and see them all through. Indy is another franchise I have fallen short on. Temple of Doom and Crystal Skull are the only two I have seen and remember. The latter of those two is not great at all and while I have heard 'The Temple of Doom' is not the best one out of Raiders of the Lost Arc' and 'The Last Crusade', I have not seen those so 'Temple'' remains my favourite. This trailer though, seems to hopefully remove the stench that is Crystal Skull.
I like this trailer a lot. I am especially loving the feel and story of this one which seems to be a chase/heist for the Dial of Destiny to try to prevent someone going back in time to help Adolf carry out his atrocities. At one point in the trailer, it looked like I saw Antonio Banderas. In other parts of the trailer, we see younger versions of Indy so these are either flashbacks or at some point we may see an older one meeting or travelling to where the younger Indy is, maybe. Nevertheless, the action looks great, the story looks better and I am looking forward to it.
For those who need to learn or are unaware of who Ahsoka is, let me give you a quick breakdown of how we got here. Ahsoka Tano was introduced in 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Movie (a film no one watched or enjoyed). It was an animated movie where Ahsoka was the padawan of Anakin Skywalker (I believe in helping to teach him responsibilities, discipline and then some). The Clone Wars animated movie then spun off into its own animated cartoon series called 'Star Wars: Clone Wars' in 2003 but the clone wars stories were then replaced by the 2008 animated series 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' where we focus on a "canon" storyline between the events of 'Star Wars: Attack of the Clones' and 'Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith' (I got onto this series from Season 4, watched all of the season then went back to season 1 and started from the beginning until the end which ended at season 7). The Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated show fleshed out the many battles Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker had between the two main movies and also helped flesh out the character of Ahsoka from a young Padawan joining the Jedi up until she is seen in Star Wars: Rebels. The animated show went on for several seasons filling up a "backstory" which also helped explain how and why Anakin sided with Emperor Palpatine and how "quickly" he turned to the Darkside in 'Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith'. Ahsoka's story was also heavily fleshed out during these shows and she has now popped up in not only 'Star Wars: Rebels', but in live action in both 'The Mandalorian' and 'The Book of Boba Fett'. This show aims to be her story since leaving the Jedi Order, working with the Rebels and looking for Grand Admiral Thrawn. All caught up? Good.
This trailer does not sell it for me and I am trying to think as to why I am not sold on it. Everything looks great, Rosario looks great, Chopper, Hera and Sabine look decent, but the overall aesthetic is not vibing with me. I am finding it hard to place why. I have seen two seasons of 'The Mandalorian' (and I am currently watching the third) and the look aesthetic is consistent with the one season of 'The Book of Boba Fett', but the look of these shows are not at all the same as 'Andor' (another Star Wars show). And while it does not need to look like Andor (although Andor seems to have been the best Star Wars live-action TV show so far, for me anyway), 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' also fell into the same visual grouping as The Mandalorian. There is something about this trailer specifically that is just not jiving with me, especially as I really like the Ahsoka character as she had grown on me from seasons 1-3 in Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated show when she was an annoying little child to the lovely and capable young woman she is now. She has stood up to and fought many characters in Star Wars and while her path is her own, it would be great to see where this ends up, but this trailer by itself simply looks cool and great, but that is just it. I will definitely watch it, but ultimately, the trailer does not sell me on the show as I was going to watch it anyway, but it does not hype me up even more as it simply looks like a paint-by-numbers of a few characters, lightsabre shots and ships. Give me more! Oh, and is that Orange? Is that an Orange lightsabre being held by some dude? I cannot think to whom that is but, I am just not sold on the show as yet, more than I already was. Hopefully, another trailer will help flesh out a nice synopsis and give me a better understanding of the show and maybe the look will grow on me. From watching this trailer, I simply felt that there needs to be someone above everything so there is a consistent tone to all the Star Wars shows and films because everything seems a little disjointed in look and presentation and this trailer made me feel that way.
If there is anything the teaser trailer captured the most about this Barbie movie is that this movie is going to be absolutely wild and this trailer confirms it. Have you seen the Marketing for this movie? What Greta Gerwig has put together is somewhat genius or crazy or both and I love it. I remember seeing the set photos a few years ago and the neon pink and yellow outfits looked silly, but now we are seeing this in context, it works, it really works! I remember going through the catalogue back in the day and seeing Cindy and Barbie. Barbie was killing it, she did and had everything and everything was pink, EVERYTHING! So this trailer while it seems excessive in parts, it really isn't.
This trailer does not tell us a great deal about the movie itself other than what looks like Ken fully trying to get with Barbie for reasons I am not even sure he even knows why. Ken "I thought I might stay over tonight!" Barbie "Why?" Ken "Because we are girlfriend and boyfriend" Barbie "To do what?" Ken "...................I'm actually not sure", hilarious. I am not certain if the age rating is for kids but I am assuming so, but the adults will get it. While I feel I might need to be inebriated before watching this movie, I think this movie will be charming and extremely funny. It is great seeing Simu Lu (Shang Chi from the MCU) in here and Issa Rae (from the TV show Insecure and the up and coming Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse). Also, what this movie can do for diversity is simply amazing in a funny way. Going into toy stores when I was younger, you would see a black Barbie and I often thought to myself "Barbie is not black", so having Issa as a Barbie is great. Also, just like action toys for boys, Barbie did everything, so seeing a Barbie do the splits in the trailer is nothing but childhood accuracy at it's finest. And with the likes of Will Ferrell, there is simply no reason at all as to why this movie will not be fun.
You would have to have been born in the last 3 years or have no access to the internet to not have heard, seen or experienced 'Spider-Man in the Spider-Verse'. Imagery, video clips, toys, something! Spider-man is one of if not, the most recognisable IP there is and when people initially thought a Miles Morales film would not work because it is not Peter Parker as the star and the Spider-Man we are focusing on, we were in for a major surprise. A lot of people thought the film would flop but in actuality, 'into the Spider-Verse has one of the best Spider-Man stories among all the films Sony has ever put out. So to think that movie does not need or deserve a sequel, I will say to you this, "Really???". But where do you go with such a great story, a relatively new Spider-Man protagonist and in animation? You go bigger. You go better. You go across the Spider-Verse!!!
This movie looks great! This movie looks amazing (no pun intended) and the animation looks spectacular (pun intended). They seem to have levelled up whilst still looking and delivering the same visuals as before but with a higher quality. It looks as though, whilst the characters look older and more mature depicting some time has passed, the animation also looks more detailed and defined, as if the animation itself has matured. This looks like it will be a quality movie and it also seems as though, the focus is Miles trying to juggle being a hero as well as a "normal" teen having a "normal" life. Spider-Man has always had an issue with the double identity, being conflicted with his role and responsibilities which came along with, great power. All the Spidermen thus far have had a moment that defined them to become the person they are, why they do what they do and the struggle of trying to balance both their life and being a superhero, this looks like it will be no different. And with the introduction of the Spide-Verse, it looks as though we are getting deeper into Spider-Man lore and Miles has a lot to learn going forward. Whilst it looks like Spider-Man 2099 Miguel might be the main antagonist and/or villain, I absolutely love the inclusion of Spot, a goofy villain who could be notorious but, is not that smart of a guy.
If there is anything I wanted from Marvel right now, anything! Anything I absolutely needed from the Marvel Cinematic Universe right now, anything? And that is a film that has the same tone as Captain America The Winter Soldier. A political spy thriller and this trailer looks like it is it! Now we are going to see Skrulls properly. Not just the playful and less harmful faction we saw in Captain Marvel, but the bad ones, the ones who are trying to take over Terra. The one's who likely want to infiltrate the world and universe.
This trailer gives me all the feels. This trailer is giving me the Captain America The Winter Soldier vibes as well as a little of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier TV series vibes. The TV show was good but it was plagued with issues stemming from the pandemic, re-writes and course corrections, etc. But we are here now and I am here for this. The MCU movies of late do not seem to be cutting it, especially the TV shows. They have been good, but not great and this looks like it could turn the tables back to making the MCU great again. No jokey jokey. It is not like I do not want to have a laugh or giggle in these movies and shows, but of late, the MCU has been too hardy-har had and I do not feel as though it had been working out. Give us more stakes, more seriousness, some situational humour as well as answers. Why are these skrulls beefing? Why are there no Avengers involved? Why is this one personal for Nick Fury? One last fight? Is he going to die? In the words of John Rocha "What does that all mean?". I am hoping these episodes are 1 hour long and there is at least 8 episodes because we need them, Samuel L. Jackson is also a big enough actor to carry this show on his back. Give it to us, Marvel! Let us hope this is very good at least to warrant anything shorter than 9 episodes and/or 50 minutes per episode. Oh yeah, is that a Super Skrull???
