Uprising: Gay Spider-Man

Summary: the peasants rise up, this is clearly a metaphor for the modern left.

So when he’s not busy pushing for his gay Spider-Man fan fiction, Andrew Garfield decides to attack billionaires, saying this film will scare them. Remember Andrew isn’t a man of the people he’s a millionaire too.

It has to be asked what would scare them about this film, the amount of money it lost, the desperate attempt to try and tie it to Robin Hood in order to try and sell tickets, Garfield’s single handed destruction of the film?

The film itself is a fairly generic period piece that doesn’t ever hit the level of epic it wants to. The film is also brutally paced so in that respect it hits epic level but where they can justify it this film really can’t.

Overall, just terrible.

1/5.

Pros.

It is so bad it’s funny at times

Cons.

The pacing

Garfield

It feels so generic

It’s dull

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Lanterns Season Overview: Sack James Gunn Now!

Summary: a bunch of hacks who haven’t made anything mainstream audiences watched and liked since Lost, meet up with a group of race-baiters and this is their shared union.

This show hates white people, if you’re white know that the writers room hates you and thinks you’re the issue with society. You cannot seemingly have a line of dialogue without someone bringing up racism and how bad white people are and how they are the root of society’s evils.

Even when you have characters like John’s parents who are warped and evil, and seriously abuse him as a child this is not couched through the lens of they are bad, but rather how the white man has made them so. It is victim compex 101.

Nowhere is this hated more clear than in the character assassination of Hal Jordan, whom they have admitted to making display racist tendencies and who they make into the biggest scum bag in the galaxy, doesn’t matter if he’s a beloved DC hero. One minute he’s incompetent and the next he’s outright evil, but hey they right the wrong by killing him off. The shock death in the first episode is so obvious and so obviously done to get attention the events of the series don’t change this.

There is also a question about why all the female characters are old and oftentimes ugly, most likely this was a choice as well. Why would the Lanterns have a woman of Laura Linny’s age as a member surely she would be retired. It’s ridiculous.

The show is doing so well there has not been a season 2 announcement yet other than to say they have formed a writers room in advance of a renewal. That renewal will not be coming.

0/5

Pros.

None

Cons.

It’s hateful and probably should be removed from streaming services as it incites hatred against white people.

It destroys Hal as a character

The padding

The series barely spends any time in space or with the characters in costume

Its loathsome

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Clayface: DC’s Venom

Summary: Clayface is given the hero treatment

So this film isn’t bad it’s solid, but it suffers from the same problem as a lot of these villain centric superhero films, they take a villain and make them into an anti hero in order to make them the protagonist.

Yes yes, he kills his love interest’s boyfriend but before that he’s taking down gangsters so you see the point.

At times in the film the body horror is quite visceral this is good if you like that sort of thing but if you struggle with gore then maybe give the film a miss.

There is a feel throughout the film that this takes place in a different universe to Batman, it is not just that his absence is felt but almost like it is not even a DC film.

Overall a mid tier anti hero film.

3/5

Pros.

The action

The ending

The effects

Cons.

The lack of Batman

Turning a villain into an anti hero

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Forgotten Island: LGBTQ+ Themes In Kids Films

Summary: two friends cross over into a fantasy land based on the mythology of the Philippines.

So the character designs, really that is all I need to say, whilst some claims of oh Hollywood is trying to force LGBTQ+ themes and characters into kids films might be a bit dicey, here it is the real deal. The more mythical characters are clear examples of this not so much the main girls.

Of course the characters are girl bosses what else would you expect from modern studio animation, they are both fairly irritating in different ways. The issue with this film is whilst the idea seems novel the execution really isn’t.

By making the characters unlikeable you don’t care what happens to them.

There is also some oddly anti Christian stuff in the film, with her praying to Jesus at one point and that does nothing, yet the folklore of the film is all very real. It is also strange that you have characters that are called demons within a kids film.

Overall, don’t waste your kids time taking them to this.

1/5.

Pros.

It’s short

Cons.

The forced themes

The ending

The dual leads

It tries to do too many different types of animation

Sense and Sensibility: Slay Queen

Summary: Austen is updated for the age of girl dinner.

Why the makers of this film felt the need to update it is beyond us, having the little girl saying things like I’ll only date a man who’s rich, how long have long distance relationships ever lasted and other such modern day bits of “wisdom”, is jarring and out of place.

The film seems to want to have that Poor Things vibe of taking an older stuffier film and trying to add in some bite but the film just feels a bit awkward at times.

Then there’s the pacing the film has no business being on for as long as it is and could be around the hour and a half mark, the length of the film feels more suited to a TV series.

Overall, an awkward adaptation.

2/5.

Pros.

The characters are mostly likeable

It doesn’t do the whole race swap thing a lot of modern adaptions do

Cons.

The pacing

The modern day vague misandry

The awkward jokes

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The Social Reckoning: Stating The Obvious

Summary: Mark Zuckerberg has lived another decade and a half of life since The Social Network came out.

You shouldn’t need a film to tell you that tech CEOs are bad. The events that happen in this film are a rehash of a news cycle from a decade ago, the fact is this film feels incredibly dated for a few reasons.

Firstly it feels like a sequel that should have come out a long time ago, rather than this late after the original. Secondly, it is covering things we already know about, when in reality things have gotten much worse since.

Finally the lead tries his best but he doesn’t have a patch of Jessie Eisenberg not a patch.

Overall, needless

2/5.

Pros.

The writing is good for the most part

The pacing works

Cons.

It is dated

It doesn’t hold up when compared to the first film

It states the obvious

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Streetfighter: Hollywood Ruins Everything

Summary: Ken’s gay now

So let’s address it head on, Ken is spooning men, is the subject of a number of jokes implying he’s gay, and is shown to be hung up on Ryu. In the games Ken is straight, why was this needed to be done? Was it to destroy a strong male character? Vandalisation of the franchise? Or simply the broader woke that has consumed Hollywood? This is mirrored in Bison and Vega as well.

Why was this done, you already know, to subvert the audience and to shock them, playing in to the camp nature of the games. The issue is that the games whilst camp weren’t overly homoerotic as this film tries to be at times.

The director wanted to stand up action cinema of the 90s by having lots of heavily implied gay characters for shock value, because that’s what sells tickets.

Even the female characters get a taste of the LGBTQ+ treatment to.

Overall, if you enjoyed the games ever then this isn’t for you.

0.5/5

Pros.

It is unintentionally funny sometimes

Cons.

It destroys a lot of legacy characters

Its dumb and makes no sense

It’s badly paced

The ending

It’s oddly pervy

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Wildwood: A 45 Year Old In A Child’s Body

Summary: Narnia if it was written by a 40 year old leftist hipster.

So let’s get a few things out of the way, the film has woke elements, all of the stuff set in the Oregon during the early part of the film, the fact that the Bandit King, who’s black, was wrongfully kicked out of his land, the underlying themes. However for the most part you can ignore them, they aren’t as in your face as other films.

The film itself does a lot right, the animation is great and ambitious, the world building works and goes in some interesting directions, let’s lots to explore and plenty of questions to ask after the film wraps up.

The villain is quite well done in particular she is both outrightly monstrous but also has a deeply human reason for being so, however, the film does not try and say that justifies her actions, no the film still has her be the evil villain.

Overall, if you ignore the leftist sensibilities then the film is a pretty good dark fantasy film.

3/5

Pros.

The world

The villain

The animation

Cons.

The leftist messaging

Fairly bland lead characters

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Klara and The Sun: Taika Waititi Goes Full Woke

Summary: Capitalism is bad um’kay.

So not only does this film centre someone with a clear eating disorder and not address it, Jenna Ortega needs some help, but is the next in a long line of films to go capitalism is the route of all evil. Despite the fact that socialism has led to the deaths of millions of people worldwide.

The film is actively opposed to meritocracy, and maybe this was a theme in the book, but as modern times have proven giving people jobs and roles when they have no talent and aren’t qualified leads to messes like this film.

On top of that we have to get a heavy handed environmental lecture presented as a sub plot as well. As you can imagine this is handled with as much grace and subtly as a flaming brick thrown through a window.

This film feels like the death throws of woke Hollywood.

Let’s all be glad Waititi’s Star Wars film got shelved

1/5.

Pros.

Amy Adams tries her best

Cons.

Ortega

The preaching

The pacing

The ending

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The House That Dripped Blood: One Unfortunate House

Summary: a series of segments about a house with an evil past.

Of the 4 segments this film offers 3 are good and 1 is bad that is quite the achievement. The final segment involving vampires is likely the best and has the most fun, where the Cushing one struggles with tone and the one with Lee feels very done before.

The linkage to the house which is the central device doesn’t always make a lot of sense, such as with Cushing’s tale as a lot of that happens away from the house but still.

There is a low-fi fun to these tales a reminder of how effective horror can be when it’s not full of jump scares for the sake of it.

Overall, fun is forgettable

3/5

Pros.

3/4 isn’t bad

It’s well paced

There is a humour to it

Cons.

A few issues with tone

The opening segment isn’t good

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