The Cinematic Review-verse

Hello, people. So, word around the superhero movie biz is that Marvel and DC are going through superhero fatigue. And while I do respect the cast and crew for working so hard, I believe the end result is said fatigue. For probably the last two years, I’ve been catching up with some comics of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, X-Men, even Flashpoint to see whether the films stuck to the original material, were just Hollywood big-budget rewrites, or both. For example, Doctor Strange’s amulet, the Eye of Agamotto, is not an Infinity Gem in the comics as it was portrayed in his first film starring Benedict Cumberbatch. While it did capture his tale of damage to his hands and arising from arrogance to open-mindedness about sorcery, the rest of it was probably Hollywood trying to link it with the Avengers’ Infinity Saga. And Flashpoint , spoiler alert, in the comics, Thomas Wayne was alive, Bruce wasn’t, but Thomas became Batman, and the world and Justice League were falling apart. The Flash barely...

Guy Ritchie 's latest direction escapade, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , was a good feat with jazzy scoring, scene stealing by Eiza González , and good-hearted rebellious heroism courtesy of Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson, whom you may/may not have forgotten was Raphael in the 2014-16 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies. Set in the early 1940s, the film tells a fictionalized tale of Operation Postmaster. Similar to Magnificent Seven, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sets up the operation as a black ops group where several unconventional warriors were to thwart Nazi warships receiving supplies and help the United Kingdom effort in World War II .  While it was funny in the beginning with Cavill and Ritchson as Gus March-Phillipps and Anders Lassen outsmarting the Nazis with commando initiative and humor, the real appeal in the film came to me with Eiza González as Special Ops Executive agent Marjorie Stewart . I haven't heard a lot about females...