Enlarge / John Cena shows he has some dramatic chops as well as comedic timing in Peacemaker. (credit: HBO Max) We had our doubts about Peacemaker, the HBO Max spinoff series based on John Cena’s character from 2021’s The Suicide Squad. But I’m happy to report that those doubts were entirely unfounded. Series creator James Gunn has […]
Enlarge / Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen (supposedly) star as Boba Fett and Fennec Shand, respectively, in The Book of Boba Fett . (credit: Disney+) When The Book of Boba Fett was still in production, creator Jon Favreau jokingly dubbed the spinoff series ” The Mandalorian season 2. 5. ” It turns out that wasn’t really […]
Enlarge / Dina Shihabi co-stars as Melody Pendras, a documentary filmmaker whose fire-damaged 1994 tapes end up in the hands of archivist Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie) in the Netflix series Archive 81. It’s loosely based on a podcast of the same name. (credit: Netflix) A troubled archivist finds himself drawn into the mystery of a […]
Jessie Mei Li stars as Alina Starkov, a cartographer in the First Army of Ravka. [credit: Netflix ] A lowly orphan and military cartographer in a war-torn world discovers she may be the key to her country’s survival in Shadow and Bone, a new Netflix series based on young adult author Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling “Grishaverse” novels. […]
Sam Wilson/Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) engage in a staring contest. [credit: YouTube/Marvel ] Confession: I wanted to like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier more than I ultimately did. The various trailers seemed so promising, giving off vibes of a “buddy cop” action flick, with a bit more room to […]
Superheroes abuse their abilities instead of using them for great in The Boys, that just concluded its second time. In my overview of The Boys S1 this past calendar year, I predicted the Amazon Prime collection “a wickedly funny, darkly irreverent adaptation” and”perfect late-summer treatment for anybody who has grown somewhat tired of this continuous onslaught […]