While it’s a no-brainer that HBO’s hottest (and right now best) show is returning, the question is, after a note perfect season three finale, should it? Many faithful viewers of HBO’s blockbuster series Succession are still reeling the day after Season Three’s epic finale where we see embattled patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) reduce his children to figurative ashes during… Read more →
2019 was a year filled with eclectic offerings in theaters; Shimbo provides a list of his top films with more than a couple surprises 2019 was an interesting year for film. While far from one of the best years, many of the best offerings were overshadowed by the culmination of Marvel Studios’ “Infinity Saga” and the closing of the Star… Read more →
Joaquin Phoenix gives a masterful performance in a film that often struggles to live up to it while still managing to create a world worthy of a Batman. While I have no real desire to discuss Joker, director Todd Phillips’ take on the DC Comics supervillain, as an exercise into how virtue signaling can sometimes be a square peg forced… Read more →
No need to candy coat it: Justice League is an awful movie that only saw light of day because bills need to be paid, and a sucker is born every minute. Before we get into why Justice League, a hastily collaborative effort from directors Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon (credited to Snyder, who left the production following the death of… Read more →
Spider-Man: Homecoming succeeds in giving fans a fresh and charming take on the iconic webslinger, now fully at home in the Marvel Cinematic Universe When the first trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming dropped back in December, my biggest complaint was that so much of what I saw felt like it was lifted from the still-new Spider-Man of the comics, a/k/a Miles… Read more →
