The title of the second part of Todd Phillips’ Joker is Joker: Folie à Deux. Folie à Deux means a scenario where two people share the same mental illness. So, from the title itself, it is sort of evident that they are trying to pitch the second installment as a love story. While the first… Continue reading Joker: Folie à Deux Review | A Character Study With Too Much Melancholy and Too Little Folie
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Review | DCEU Signs off With a Bland Dead-On-Arrival Film
Looking at some of the dramatic elements in certain set pieces of the final DCEU movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, one could see that they were perhaps very enthusiastic about creating this movie when they wrote the initial drafts. But the making of the film feels like they had no interest in presenting it… Continue reading Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Review | DCEU Signs off With a Bland Dead-On-Arrival Film
Blue Beetle Review | An Unremarkable and Generic Mashup of Superhero Traits
Blue Beetle, the new DCEU film starring Xolo Maridueña as the title character, feels like a pretty generic mashup of all the superhero traits. In fact, you can practically see many scenes or scripting tropes that are similar to many movies from DCEU and MCU. With nothing genuinely creating excitement about the concept, Jaime’s Nana… Continue reading Blue Beetle Review | An Unremarkable and Generic Mashup of Superhero Traits
The Flash Review | Multiverse Fatigue Covered Up With Abundance of Nostalgia
The day before yesterday, my Facebook feed popped up with a memory of my post about the excitement I had for watching Man of Steel. 10 years after the release of Man of Steel (June 14th, 2013), we are pretty much witnessing the end of DCEU with their latest film, The Flash, which is trying… Continue reading The Flash Review | Multiverse Fatigue Covered Up With Abundance of Nostalgia