This is proving quite the welcome back for Marvel on the part of many long-time detractors, it's impossible to gauge the quality of a Marvel or even Disney film more widely from looking at the critics response, it's usually inflated to a point of disbelief, I have long suspected this is because Disney is now the biggest player in the game, and traditional media want to stay on their side as much as possible for fear of being blackballed on…

Just under a decade ago The ant released to modest critical praise and a decent commercial performance at the box office, not that I contributed to that box office run, I would end up seeing the film about a year later on Blu-ray and thought well of it, even as I have to be honest and say it didn't leave a lasting impression on me at that time. Cut to a few years down the road and I've ed Letterboxd,…

Swinging back round to this one again, as ever I seem to on repeat viewings for having seen a clip in my Instagram scrollings, honestly sometimes I think it's a blessing and a curse to have subscribed to so many film centric pages, I just come away from every doom scroll session with a need to see this film, that film etc and my watchlist remains, unloved and staring at me from the corner of my room.

I Warrior…

Upping to a full fat 5/5 because it's the right thing to do. Why I didn't do it originally is beyond me at this moment in time, but life is about righting one's wrongs isn't it?

Won't waste much time on needless words for this one today, I saw it available via Prime and just dived straight in, I mean it's been a loaded evening for me between Raging Bull and this as a double feature, but a cinematically rewarding…

I've been curious about returning to this film most of all in this full rerun of the series ahead of Final Reckoning this week, because I haven't seen it since the cinema and it's very easy to get swept up in a film when taking it in via the theatrical experience, that huge screen and bombastic sound system really help any film, but action films in particular really benefit from such treatment.

Looking back at the late spring/early summer of…

There's been so much discussion and dissection of the issues confronted by Marvel Studios in the post Endgame world, and more latterly Disney in general as they've struggled to return to top form in the wake of the Pandemic, overall it feels like the spark that kept them at the top and moving in the right direction has begun to stutter but it hasn't quite sputtered out yet and the occasional film keeps things ticking over, but they really needed…