It should come as a hot take to pretty much nobody that I think the MCU has lost a lot of its lustre. The onslaught of movies and streaming series that have come out since Avengers Endgame have been at best uneven in quality. And while the most…
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Doctor Who has long been my favorite show, but my actual viewing it over the years has been very on-again / off-again. Lately, it’s been all-on, as I’m actually closing in on finishing re-watching all of the classic episodes (at least the ones that are easily available for me…
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Another month is almost over and I have only now summarised what I have read, watched and done in the previous month. And as a consequence of this, once again, it’s hard for me to remember what I should be talking about here. But because I can be…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Official Final Trailer It’s about to be a “brand new day” as Marvel Studios and Sony Entertainment release the official final trailer for their upcoming film Spider-Man: Brand New Day. View trailer below. It’s a BRAND NEW DAY for Peter Parker. Fighting crime full-time…
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So this is a post I’m pretty excited about, that I’ve been working on for a long time. I started working on over five years ago, as far as I can tell. So the idea here, developed in the wake of similarly themed posts like my one about…
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A CINEMATIC MAGNUM OPUS A long-lost king reclaiming his kingdom. A son searching for the father he never truly knew. A wife longing for her husband while her home is overrun by ambitious suitors. A war veteran desperately trying to find his way home while facing mythical creatures,…
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I’ve been looking forward to Supergirl in a pretty big way. I like comic books, superheroes and the blending of the two in general, so of course Supergirl was going to be on my watch list. But I really like DC Comics, the whole world of Superman, the…
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Avengers: Doomsday Official Trailer Doom is upon us all as Marvel Studios releases the official trailer for the highly anticipated superhero blockbuster Avengers: Doomsday. View trailer below. Fourteen months after the events of Thunderbolts* (2025), groups of heroes from three different universes—the Avengers, Wakandans, and New Avengers from Earth-616; the Fantastic Four from Earth-828; and the “original” X-Men from a separate…
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Doctor Who has long been my favorite show, but my actual viewing it over the years has been very on-again / off-again. Lately, it’s been all-on, as I’m actually closing in on finishing re-watching all of the classic episodes (at least the ones that are easily available for me…
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As mentioned previously, in “Impossible Voyages” I’m watching and writing about a run of new (to me) science fiction films to be watched over last year, which has extended to this year (2026). You can read the rationale and ground rules here. In the meantime, we are advancing from…
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