Reviews

Whenever I watch a new show and am not sure what to expect, it's usually within those first 10 minutes of a show that can decide if the shows right for me or not. When I came across Euphoria, I really wasn't sure what to expect, I had a read a synopsis and it sounded intriguing so I gave it go. Wouldn't you know it within the first 10 minutes I was hooked.

The shows can sometimes feel too real, whether you're a teenager or an adult. It revolves around a few characters such as Zendaya ( Spider-Man: Homecoming) who has had trouble with drugs, and a near death experience with her family and her quest to get clean, which feels like an up and down battle, as she lies to everyone around her about her experience and taking drugs. When a new girl comes to town named Jules, she realizes she's in love with her as she has hew own secret that she is a trans woman.

Other characters include Nate, who is the football star who is trying to define his sexuality, Kat who has had sex and now starts doing cam shows for money and much more.

Every episode is edited perfectly, I rarely say that but every episode with its dark matter and subject, always seems to have either a bright light with dark background, or happy music through a troubled time. There are moments where an episode can feel frantic or crazy, and every editing can make the viewer feel how they are feeling in that moment.

Without giving to much away the show deals with many aspects of addiction, being true to yourself, coming to terms with your identity, coming of age. Many themes revolve and all the actors do a fantastic job of bringing these characters to life and making the show feel as real as it does.

While I was never sure what to expect, Euphoria takes shows such as Degrassi and 13 Reasons Why and then takes a lot of the subject matter that we've seen in that show to feel more dark yet also more hit home type of show. It may not be everyone's cup of tea but after 5 Episodes, I am still thinking about it, still anticipating newer episodes, and where they can go. It's a show that sticks with you after every episode and isn't afraid to go into the territory other shows have gone.

Euphoria, is a show that should be watched not just for the content and story but just overall how much the whole team on this show gives in every aspect. A worthwhile watch.

Well here we are! First MCU Movie of the year including one of the most powerful heroes in comics Captain Marvel! She will be playing a huge part in the new Avengers Endgame movie due later in May this year. But does it hold up and is the hype worth it surrounding this movie? Meh. At least that was my thinking after the film.

Captain Marvel played by Brie Larson brings a new type of hero into the MCU universe. As we get a backstory of Carol Danvers/ Veers exploring how they came to be who they are. The setting takes place party in space and partly on earth around 1995-1996. The movie does a great but minimal job at expanding the 90's setting with music, memorabilia, clothing and such. It mainly the story that sort of falls flat.

Brie Larson does a good job but I felt her wit and character brought a good amount to the role even though I felt her acting felt somewhat dry and uninspired. In short the movie reviles around finding out how Captain Marvel came to be from her fighting alongside the Kree to take out a species called the Skrull. Now if you have watched any other MCU movie mainly Guardians, you'll know the twist right away revolving around the Kree's.

In terms of other actors Samuel L Jackson does a great job as Fury and of course the "cat" steal the show. I won't spoil too much but the humor as per every MCU movie is on point and well done.

Visually the movie looks fantastic as per every MCU movie but the story and development really just feel out place it just doesn't seem to come together cohesively, and this was a movie I wanted to love and walk out being floored and wanting to see again. Sadly I just felt the movie falls short in terms of story and character development. It just feels like a regular movie and nothing really differentiating it, in an honest word it feels forgettable.

While i implore everyone to definitely check it out, and for sure the Marvel crowd will be sticking around for any hints and clues towards Endgame coming out, the movie after it was done didn't really hold my mind to thinking further on it. It didn't make me want to talk a lot about it with friends or family the movie just felt shallow with a nice a coat of paint to mask the drab by the numbers plot.

In all was not bad just a big meh, but here is hoping the next route for our Hero will be epic and see some great villains in it as well.

Suicide Squad was probably one of my most anticipated titles of 2016 for the summer ever since the announcement and my love for both Marvel and DC and especially after the amazing animated title Assault on Arkham which if you haven;t seen you definitely should a great animated title with the suicide squad and batman and joker all together. It's hard to say what exactly the issue was here but mostly it feels like the start of the movie it's going to be fun but falls flat afterwards. Much like Guardians of the Galaxy which was a surprising hit for me and others this movie seems to lose it's fun afterwards.

First off lets talk characters. Will Smith was obviously the star as was Margot Robbie who stole the show as Harley Quinn and nailed the character perfectly, Will Smith played..... Will Smith he didn't encompass the Deadshot I know and love from the comics which I can accept but he just didn't play anything other Captain Hillard, Agent J with a new set of weapons and skills,IE it's nothing new to the role and he doesn't bring much here. Viola Davis does a bang up job as Amanda Waller she's psychotic horrible person, who's either your best friend or worst enemy, not good not bad but she'll do anything to get what she wants. The rest of the cast does a great job also and their chemistry is bang on and then there's Jared Leto's Joker..... I remember when people bashed Heath Ledger for the role of it and ended up being amazing in TDK, Jared Leto when he got the part I have to admit was excited to see how he'd bring life to the role, and even after the backlash of how his character looked, I still wanted to give him a chance, as I would with any character. Sadly The Joker is not only underused but the character is just off and seems to be there as a selling point for people to go see the movie as The Joker is one of the most popular villains of all time, yet here he's given not much time, and not much to do with the role. The rest of the squad are OK El Diablo is fun and Captain Boomerang is a very guy, all in all their chemistry together is fantastic, the quips, jokes and fun they have, shines on the screen.

The Story is easy, a bunch of criminals are set up after the death of superman to be controlled by government to do missions no one else will do and if they die, so be it they're criminals anyways, and if they survive they get benefits and time knocked off their sentence. Of course one of the squad decides to disobey and cause a ruckus ( Enchantress) and then decides to let her brother out and start building a weapon and destroy everyone so it's up to the suicide squad to take her down and save humanity. Sad part the villain is very boring... both of them are, and this would've been good to have maybe used the joker as a means to be the villain much like Assault on Arkham, but we get a very bland villain with silly motivations and while the first half of the film has a unique style and flare, the second part drags and stops using that fun throughout. Guardians seemed to use the formula correctly whereas SS seems to have tried to make it fun dark and fun. It could've been good but in the end much of the film suffers from just pacing issues, being bland and story dragging out. It's not to say the movie is bad the cast works great the characters are fun but the movie as a whole just felt in one word very meh... Not bad not memorable not great just OK.

Decide on yourself if the movie is good or not you may hate or love it, but in all just felt there could've been more done, here's hoping much like the BVS extended cut the Suicide Squad is given extended look when it comes to home video.

First lets get one thing out of the way. When I first heard they were rebooting Ghostbusters I was disappointed, One we weren't getting a third Ghostbusters movie though many can say the video game that came out in 2009 was the actual sequel, and with the passing of Harold Ramis shortly after all hopes for a third sequel were gone. Then of course there was news swirling round that there was reboot incoming there were so many rumours like Jack Black being named as one of the people who'd star and more. Finally we got confirmation that it would be an all Girl cast of Ghotstbusters, the internet freaked out.

Now fast forward we've seen trailers and clips and much more and yet people still seem mad, and looking through the IMDb section as of release of this movie people seem to be calling it sexist, awful, horrible, giving it 1/10 with no validity at least in my opinion. Lets get one thing straight this is not the Ghostbusters we knew and grew up with as much as we'd love it to be, and yes it all an all female cast.... which makes me ask those who claimed as being sexist, exactly how so? We live in an age now that women should be respected and looked at as equal not inferior, and in an age where we fight for equality I ask those who have called this movie sexist exactly how?

The movie itself has some very funny moments, for one the 3D is top notch and I am usually not one to enjoy 3D movies, the cast is also funny Kristen Wiig is hilarious as always and Melissa McCarthy stands out as usual either you really love or dislike her. The plot is very straight forward and borrows elements from both the original movie while paying homage to them in certain ways and yes the cast of the original movie do show up to do some cameos but it feels a little empty.... In my opinion one of the ways they should've integrated the movie was continuing the work of the original Ghostbusters, but how they've done this one is pretty much summed up it's a complete reboot the 1984 version and 1991 version do not exist in this universe but hey anything can happen in the future right?

Above all we've given fair chances to many other reboots that were worse, going by the movie you either went in hating it before it started or you were willing to give it a chance. The trailers and clips didn't wow me, or make me laugh but the movie itself was done well enough to make me entertained and enjoy some fun and nostalgia, is it the classic movie we all remember and hold dear and grew up with? No. But is it fun and entertaining? I certainly enjoyed myself and hope we see more and maybe just maybe get a crossover with the original team. Here's hoping. Ghostbusters is fun and well worth a check.

Batman v Superman is not perfect. But then again what movie really is giving a 10 to a movie is quite hard because while I can say one movie was a 10 to me could be a 6 to someone else. I love comics and love all comic book movies even Marvel ones. I've had issues in the past with Avengers: AOU, and even with Thor the first movie. But critics seemed to have panned this movie a lot, and I can see sort of why, but also why not. In the end be your own critic and make up your mind of what you think, and thats the beauty of being your own critic, you may like it and not every review may ring true.

First off the movie introduces Batman played spectacularly by Ben Affleck. We get to see the Dark Knight on screen in probably the best costume inception ever and even fighting style wise we get to see him plow down bad guys greatly, being fast and also brutal while taking down criminals. Batman is much older has been around for a while and takes a lot of cues from Frank Millers Dark Knight Returns sans Kelly as Robin. His interactions with Alfred are some of the best being deep and meaningful. I can only Ben does a solo flick as well as he's done other movies he's directed. Superman is portrayed well here as well, the whole tone of the movie is dark and asks the question of what would we do if we had a godlike figure who could save people and help people, but who is also flawed too, would we accept him or would we dismiss him? Henry Cavill does a decent job of showing this throughout the film, and while the fight scene between them is short and the trailers have ruined most of it, it's still worth a watch. And finally Wonder Woman was amazing, we only see her on screen for a bit and get a bit of history of her, but her theme song, her fight with Doomsday is just so bad ass you cannot help but just watch and smile. The movie takes a dark overall brooding tone and that was fine by me, it can feel a bit depressing at times, but it's a contrast from Marvel movies being fun and fast. If DC went the fun route I feel people would've picked on DC for copying Marvel and so and on so forth.

Some of the bad comes with motivations and plot. One they should have left out the whole Batman V Superman title they fight all of once, in the movie and thats it. We all knew it was a precursor to Justice League but they could've called it Batman & Superman and dropped the V it was totally worthless to have it. Jesse Eisenberg was probably the biggest let down there were times I enjoyed his performance but he came off as psychotic joker/riddler hybrid. His constant giggling and psychotic breaks were so unnerving and ridiculous. It was over the top even at the end when after we first saw promo pics of him bald, even though through 3/4 of the movie he has hair, we see him yelling and going loony. It was just not a good fit. Plot wise the motivations for fighting were a bit silly. But we didn't get enough depth into it and it was a missed mark for Snyder.

So why should you see the movie? Make up your own mind critics are not always right and fans are not always right about movies. I left my brain at home and enjoyed the movie for what it was, I had fun and I have to say it was a good movie not perfect, not amazing but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Go check it out and make up your own mind for what you feel is best. But it is worth a watch!

Lets get one thing our the way before we start the review, the comparison to Archer thats being made. I can see where the similarities come from but this is still different enough from Archer to be original, almost such as Family Guy is similar to The Simpsons or Mad TV was/is to SNL. While they may be similar they're also very different and the show itself stands as an homage to 80's comedy and action films. Chances are if you have watched an 80's cop movie such as RoboCop or Lethal Weapon or TV shows such as Miami Vice you'll understand the style and take for the series. But the show is not an Archer clone and unfair to describe it as such. Moonbeam City is a fantastic new addition to the adult cartoon humour that has been getting bigger in the past few years.

The Good: The show is hilarious. And the cast does a great job at keeping up with the jokes and playing their respective characters. Rob Lowe plays Dazzle a dimwitted cop who is narcissistic, stylish and probably our first Pan-Sexual character on a TV show, without any spoilers basically Dazzles character hits on women, men and even animals...You'll have to watch to get the reference. Next is Will Forte who plays Rad Cunningham Dazzles rival to be the #1 cop and replace Dazzle as much as possible, he is also another dimwitted character who only cares about pretty much overtaking Dazzle but is just as selfish and maybe a bit more dumb than him. Pizzaz Miller played by Elizabeth Banks who their chief, she basically yells and screams at them for always screwing up and seems to break a lot of windows, her purpose is to basically be a huge bitch and chew out Dazzle and Rad for their incompetence and you have to wonder why she Dazzle and Rad around with all their blunders. And then finally there's Chrysalis the only person with brains on the team and who seems to know what to do, and when. But of course with all the morons around she's used and abused by just trying to do her job. The style of the cartoon is very nice, a very 1980's neon type of glamour look. The city looks fantastic even though it's rampant with crime and just overall the overall tone gives you a feeling of 80's culture and references. And while at this point there hasn't been many episodes the jokes are great. With some funny reoccurring jokes that happen in every episode. And then the music which is a synth type of club music, from opening credits to chase scenes all the way to end credits, the music rolls and gives it that extra nostalgia feeling.

The Bad: Some of the jokes fall flat and are just not there or are hard to get, other times it tries to be funny but really t's more awkward.but frankly they're few and far between as of now there aren't that many episodes so it's hard to say if the show will get renewed, though here's hoping it will. There's not much else to really say bad as the series relies much on humour that you either may or may not like, but all in all the show is still a great gem.

Final: Moonbeam City is funny not everyone may think so, but not everyone has the same tastes. The shows animation and voice acting is top-notch and the humour either makes you laugh out loud or may fall flat, either way if you're looking for a new show thats both funny and stylish try out Moonbeam City you won't regret it.

We all remember the days of Sesame street, watching and growing up with it. Learning new stuff stuff everyday from the show, teaching kids how to count, spell. It wasn't long before i saw wonder showzen. I caught it one night at a friends house, kinda pondered as to what that kind of "show" was doing on that late, until i started seeing the jokes and realizing that this wasn't just any kind of show. I had done some research on the show and i began to just fall in love it with it. This was the kind of show that wasn't afraid to do anything, and when i say anything, i mean ANYTHING!! come on where else would you see a kid dressed as Hitler walking around asking people questions, as to who's more offensive. Or the Jewish J and Arab 8 who fall in love, and showing them pornographically in sexual positions. It's everything like Souht Park but 10x more, this show crosses every line there is, and it does it remarkably. Each week the show has it's regular "puppets" like Chauncy, and the news caster who has almost like a thousand eyes, and of course Clarence, the puppet who annoys the hell out of anyone, and isn't afraid to do it, it gets so bad people actually attack him on the street.

The Show has many memorable segments including Beat Kids, Clarence on the Street, D.O.G. O.B.G.Y.N., a regular cartoon and many many poor. The kids on this show are foul offensive and you sometimes wonder how the hell they got there in the first place! But this show never takes it self seriously, in fact if you take things way to seriously or a joke sometimes offend you steer clear of this show. Mainly this show pokes fun at religion, the government, people, Just about anything. I'd recommend Wonder Showzen to just about anyone looking for a fun comedy with some great laughs and all around Rotten Humour. This Show is definitely not for Children no matter how cute the box may look, keep your kids away from this. This is one show I love and will recommend a lot.

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