Ant-Man

The Ant-Man and his trusty steed, the flying ant.

Somehow Marvel keeps taking chances on weird titles like Guardians of the Galaxy and now Ant-Man and turning them into weird hits. I’m not sure how they’re managing this, exactly, but if anyone ever figures it out then all major Hollywood studios need to be informed immediately so that the secret will hopefully not be lost.

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Self/less

Damian and his "wife" share a really awkward hug.

Money can’t buy happiness, etc., but if it could buy you a new, healthy body whenever you wanted one, like it does here, then I think a lot of people would call that close enough. Of course this happiness has its dark side or it would be a very different sort of movie, but you can’t have everything. You see, while Science has perfected the art of transferring the entire contents of the human brain from one body to another, it has sadly neglected the art of creating fresh bodies in the lab, so it has to make do with whatever it can find lying around.

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Terminator: Genisys

Arnold "smiling".  It still needs work, as you might imagine.

Those darn time-traveling robots are up to their old tricks, covering their tracks again. Certainly they’ve found a new, scary way to blend in better, though thankfully not the same sort of way they had in the last Terminator flick, which is probably better forgotten. It’s a good time to forget anything about the previous Terminator movies that you might not have liked, of course, since everything’s been rebooted and all you really need to know is the basic plot of the first movie.
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