With ‘Enola Holmes’ Debuting on Netflix, Let’s Look at Some Quirkier Holmes Films
Peter Cook as Sherlock Holmes Sherlock is a literary phenomenon, as all Sherlockians know. There are few characters that are as compelling in…
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Conservative Review of Thor 2: As The Dark World Turns
As many visitors to BleedingFool are aware, I’ve written reviews for all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase One films. I started working…
The Politics of Iron Man 3: Bound, Not gagged
Marvel Studios did something amazing with the first phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU): they released six successful movies in a row. With the…
The Avengers (2012): When You Need a Hero and the Hero’s There
Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) ends with the epic 2012 film, the Avengers. Like the five films that preceded it (Iron…
Why are Hollywood Movies so Expensive to Make?
Following the much-publicized flop of the $40 million movie Raise The Titanic!, producer Lou Grade famously quipped that it would have been cheaper to lower…
A Conservative’s Review of Iron Man 2: Woman Power
The primary villain in Iron Man 2 is Anton Vanko (Mickey Rourke), also known as Whiplash. He is introduced in a tiny, dark, and…
The Conversion of Tony Stark: A post-‘Infinity War’ review of Iron Man
When I think of “woke” movies, Iron Man is not the first movie that comes to mind. Woke movies are socially conscious. More than…
Robert Downey Jr. Bringing Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth to Hulu
Deadline reports that Hulu has given a pilot order to Sweet Tooth, a drama based on characters created for DC Vertigo by Jeff Lemire.…
Extreme Romance Tales in the Time of COVID-19
Here are ten movies with love stories that avoid all the typical romantic cliches. Love in extremis and other situations in the movies, detailed in ten chapters: …
MCU Movies Ranked: #3 Avengers Endgame (2019)
#3 in my Ranking of The MCU Phases 1-3. This is more built like a traditional movie with a recognizable three act structure than Avengers:…