Bad Apples: Finally A Good Dark Comedy

Summary: Dark comedies are notoriously hard to do, either the film is too dark and becomes a drama or it takes things into a silly direction. This film manages to have both darker moments, the kidnapping of a child, but also make it not as depressing as that premise sounds.

The film is sometimes overtly funny and asks you to laugh at some quite messed up things, but Saoirse Ronan does a good job in being both funny but also clearly warped by what she is doing. She doesn’t turn it into just a silly goof and that’s important.

The main issue with the film is that it does not know when to end and has a habit of staying past its welcome.

Overall, a funny dark comedy film.

4/5

Ronan

It’s funny

It gets the tone right

There are some great WTF moments

Cons.

It overstays it’s welcome

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Colony: 28 Days Too Late

Summary: a bioweapon is unleashed in a shopping centre turning people into hive mind zombies.

So this film was quite the disappointment, Train to Buscan is a good film and even it’s sequel had some merits but this film just feels flat. It feels like a tried rehash of so many other zombie films.

The pacing is also quite brutal, on at over 2 hours a lot of this is needless talking and plots about backstabbing. There are times when you just wish the film would hurry up, but it doesn’t.

Overall, a slog that shows that maybe zombies are played out.

2/5

Pros.

It’s got some good action

The hive mind aspect is interesting

Cons.

It’s badly paced

It feels done before

The ending

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Kiki’s Delivery Service: The Heart Of Ghibli

Summary: a young witch begins delivering parcels.

On the site we have covered a number of Ghibli films and whilst other writers have said what their favourites are, for this writer this is a timeless classic.

This is something so warming and wholesome about this film, there is no grand stakes or major villains, but there is a story about self belief and leaning to believe in yourself.

There is a slightly off note quality to the film which is in a lot of Ghibli films and the idea that there is something darker going on beyond the surface of the film, this harms the film. However the broader wholesome elements really help to balance it out.

The animation is of course beautiful and the European influence helps to give this film a distinct sense of identity.

Overall, a wonderful film and possibly one of Ghibli’s best.

4.5/5

Pros.

The charm and wholesomeness

The beautiful animation

The pacing

The music

The European influence

Cons.

The darker undercurrent

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Cinema Issues: DC’S Hatred Of White Men

Way back in May of 2026 Milly Alcock the face of Supergirl felt the need to attack men for controlling women’s bodies on the press tour, she later went after Christian fathers as well for some reason. Herein we see how within James Gunn’s progressive DCU there is a racial and gender based hierarchy. As a young liberal woman Alcock of course was allowed to go off against an entire gender of people with little to no pushback at all.

Now here we are in September 2026 and Lanterns has taken this a step further. Firstly, the Co Host of a DC sponsored podcast accused Hal Jordan, traditional hero of Green Lantern comics of old of being a racist. No push back came from the studio. Gunn and co allow one of the most beloved figures in DC comics to be character assassinated simply because he is white. You can guarantee if something negative was said about Jon Stewart they would have stepped in. It gets much worse sadly, one of the writers of the series said that the Green Lantern ring itself was sexist, which again attempts to attack a classic element of comics lore, and once again DC says nothing as they can’t possibly go against the ad hoc opinion of a young black woman. As such it appears as though DC is quite happy to let its legacy characters be called names and spat on as long as they are white. Who can forget the trailer for Supergirl has Superman being urinated on by a dog. You could argue a pattern is starting to emerge.

Couple all of this with the blatant racism and race hate of the third episode of Lanterns that displayed Hals parents as not only being abusive, but also suffering deeply from victim complexes. Rather than show his parents as bad people the team has instead tried to deify them, which becomes increasingly problematic as his parents also seemed to be black supremacists and hate white people.

As such in one year alone you’ve had an attack on men, Christians and white people, all coming out under the oversight of James Gunn.

Remember if you’re one of these groups they hate you. Do not buy DC merch, don’t watch the films unless you do it in a way where they do make any money, and of course make you feelings known on social media so WBD is well aware.

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I Want Your Sex: Laughing At Victims Of Sexual Abuse

Summary: Harvey Whinstein but a woman.

So whilst there are a few funny moments in the film, and the anti woke commentary is pretty on point there is a massive glaring issue with the film.

Olivia Wilde’s character is a rapist, she records the guy without his consent, pushes him into sexual situations he doesn’t want to be in and does sexual things to him he doesn’t want. Yet at the end of the film rather than having her go to prison, the victim is shown to still be pining for her.

Once again abuse against men is turned into a joke and not a serious problem. Ask yourself if this was a film about a man doing this to a woman would it either a get made or b not be immediately cancelled.

The film is also needlessly graphic and at times it will make you deeply uncomfortable so be prepared for that.

Overall, a film that laughs at male sexual abuse.

1/5

Pros.

The anti woke commentary

Cons.

Laughing at male abuse

Having Wilde’s character get away with it

The graphic nature of it

The pacing

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X-Men 97 Season 2: Marvel Animation Continues To Make Problems

Summary: Disney stuffs about ten years of comics storytelling into a handful of episodes.

You’d think that with Marvel’s new X-Men film on the horizon that they may stop with this, as they are ripping through comics storylines that could be whole sagas on their own in a matter of a few episodes. It is spoiling things to come for a more casual audience as well.

Whilst there is a worry and we’ve expressed it before that Marvel’s X-Men film will try and tell a new X-Men storyline despite the decades of pedigree that exists, it is now becoming that they will adapt these storylines for Disney + with 97 instead.

It’s a lot of the same issues from the first season Morph isn’t non-binary, and doesn’t need so much screen time, they also give a hell of a lot to screen time to Rogue whilst Gambit and Storm generally get a lot less development. There certainly is a sense almost to make Rogue the main character of the show, simply as she is the feature of a popular internet meme.

Overall, much the same as the first season, and without the proper space to explore deeper X-Men themes or ideas as it rushes through storylines.

2/5

Pros.

A few good X-Men moments

Some good action

Cons.

The pacing

The ignored characters

The modern dayisms

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Cinema Issues: The Death Of Star Trek

So much like with Doctor Who and a leftist hack has driven another show into the ground in the name of representation and progressive values.

Before you go “StAr TrEk HaS aLwAyS bEeN wOkE” there is a massive difference between presenting a moral issue or hot button point and then presenting both the sides of the argument and allowing the audience to make their own mind up, or even having a kiss happen and not be focused on and what we got under Kurtzman. Under Kurtzman gone was the debate and in came the lectures this is the difference between a progressive bent done well and one that is hamfisted and forced down your throat. If Alex Kurtzman and co had gotten to redo the first interracial kiss it would have been told over multiple episodes whilst a character rants about modern racism in America and they complain about the hetero normative nature of it.

There is also a skill to adding progressive themes into a mass market show in a way that doesn’t reduce its mainstream appeal. Kurtzman Trek couldn’t manage that it decided to tell long time Trekkies to take a hike if they didn’t like all the new changes to canon, and decided that the LGBTQ+ community and fringe radical progressives where enough to keep the show on air, rather unsurprisingly they weren’t. As we have said at length the LGBTQ community is less than 15% of the world’s population, the amount that also watches Star Trek is even smaller than that. When you alienate a mass audience by making it about fringe issues and forcing almost every character to be LGBTQ+then you see just how unsustainable that business model is.

Star Trek much like Star Wars is also a fading brand in terms of cultural relevance and the kids just don’t care about it. The most likely way to turn it around is to go back to the movies, and do classic stories from the original series films as modern movies and remake them. TV series likely aren’t the way to go.

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Tony: One of the Most Unlikable People Possibly Ever

Summary: Anthony Bourdain estate never should have signed off on this.

So Anthony lies to almost everyone he knows constantly, he up and abandons his family to worry for a whole summer, he lies repeatedly to sleep with a girl and he causes a fire that destroys his mentors business and in the end he considers, but doesn’t, robbing said mentor. If this was true to life then there is not much you can do about it, however if this is an artistic flourish then the estate should have never let this film be made.

That is the fundamental issue with this film, why would you care about anything that happens when the character is so darn unlikable, you don’t. That is the crux of an issue the film simply cannot recover from.

Overall, a film that falls apart as you hate the lead character.

2/5

Banderas

There is some fun to be had

Cons.

Anthony is just awful

You don’t go along for the journey as the character is so unlikeable

The ending feels too convenient

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Insidious Out of The Further: A Failure To Commit

Summary: a woman has the power to bring the demons and ghosts out of the further and is then targeted by said demons and ghosts.

This film had promise, were the old people scary no, was the new cult leader figure scary no, but the idea of setting up a return of all the previous baddies happening at the same time and essentially having the further spill out into our world and then having another few films battling it was good.

The appeal of having the film end with the heroes failing but escaping and then having Elise say from off screen I think you’re going to need some help, back in the human world, would have been great. Bringing back all the past protagonists to face down all the demons and ghosts now in the human world would have set up something epic.

Yet it just ends and ties everything up and all the ghosts and demons get trapped back in the further the end. How utterly disappointing.

This film squanders any promise it had.

Overall, a disappointment.

2.5/5

Pros.

It’s watchable

It has some good ideas

It introduces an interesting new character

Cons.

The villains aren’t scary particularly when they show them to you

The ending is awful

It lacks vision

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Cinema Issues: The MCU Has An Anti Semitism Problem

As many of you may know if you keep up with entertainment news Mark Ruffalo who plays the Hulk has outed himself as an anti Semite. Any one who follows him would have known how much he hates the state of Israel and increasingly any Jewish person that is not self hating. He attacked Paramount recently and accused them of working for the Israeli military, without cast iron proof.

Sadly however the issue goes far deeper. Remember Brave New World and the character of Ruth Bat-Seraph and how Marvel were terrified of saying the world Israel and how they basic removed most of the stuff her character was supposed to even do.

They are hiding from the pro Palestine mob and enabling Jew hate along the way.

If you need more proof of our point here is a list of the actors who have signed a pledge to refuse to work with any Israeli actors, creatives, crew due to the war in Gaza.

– Benedict Cumberbatch

– Olivia Colman

-Don Cheadle

-Cate Blanchette

-Tilda Swinton

-Tatiana Maslany

-Zawe Ashton

-May Calamawy

-Daniel Bruhl

-Emma Corin

-Angela Jolie

-Wilson Bethel

Some of these people have also signed petitions wanting the release of captured terrorists leadership.

This presents an optics problem for Marvel as they have major stars not only screaming about how much they hate Israel but also often targeting mass Jewish audiences with their comments. Taken with how they have handled Jewish characters in the MCU and it looks like it’s a problem.

Right now they seem to be resting on the fact that most of the names listed on the list of shame are not coming back. Maslany, Corin, Ashton, Calamawy, Jolie, Colman are all gone with only 6 names left.

However Ruffalo still remains a thorn in their side and with Secret Wars coming up it would be the best time to replace him. You don’t even have to kill the character off simply have him transform into the Hulk and be Hulk for the next phase no more Bruce Banner for a while.

Bring back Eric Bana as well.

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