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Review: Black Widow Falls Prey to…
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor in Chief and Occasional Spymaster Summer blockbuster season can be a mixed bag. What…Review: Black Widow Falls Prey to its Own Convoluted Spygame
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor in Chief and Occasional Spymaster Summer blockbuster season can be a mixed bag. What exactly do I mean by that? Well, for one, it’s a pay off for the many of us who’ve drooled over teasers for months, even possibly a year before the actual release date. For another,…
Review: LOKI Does Time (Literally) in New Disney+ Series
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Infrequent Traveler From Jotunheim By and large, there have been countless colorful, eccentric and oft-powerful beings in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (aka the MCU), ranging from intergalactic genocidal tyrants (re: Thanos, Ego, Hela, Dormammu) to well-intentioned sidekicks (Korg, Mantis, etc.) But sometimes, some of these characters just want…
Review: If Cruella Doesn’t Bore You, Then Nothing Else Will
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Disney Classicist Let’s face facts: with the torrential output of live action adaptations that have originated from the House of Mouse over the last decade (some much better than others), it was only a matter of time before producers and writers decided it was time to dig deeper…
Now on VOD: A Glitch in the Matrix
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Believer in Clever Examples of Solipcism It’s a fairly loaded question, ine that has bothered or at least fascinated philossophers and scientists for eons: What is the nature of the universe, and can we ever truly trust our own reality? That is a great query posed by many…
Now on Demand: WandaVision a Great Trip Down TV’s Memory Lane
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Supporter of All Life, Both Synthetic and Organic So, here we are, True Believers! After a semi-long delay caused in part by the global pandemic, not to mention an ambitious slate of Marvel Cinematic Universe (or MCU to the uninitiated) projects on the go, let’s welcome the first…
Now on VOD: Shadow in the Cloud
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Fan of Things That Fly Safely (Note: This film was originally screened during the 2020 Toronto International Film Fest’s Midnight Madness program) We’ve all seen variations of the worst case scenario when it comes to flying, be it a mid-air hijacking (seeĀ Air Force One) or something very odd…
Now Playing: Wonder Woman 1984
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Fan of All Things Amazonian Here it is, the much awaited, much delayed DC Extended Universe sequel we’d hoped to catch earlier in the year, before the Covid-19 pandemic created a rescheduling nightmare for the majority of film studios. Gal Gadot is back in the titular role, this…
Assemble! A Visit to The Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. Canada in Toronto
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor and Weekend Avenger It’s not boastful at all to claim that the last decade in popular cinema has been dominated by the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or MCU for short), what with its amazing ability to bring to life all of our childhood heroes, from scientific and technical geniuses to…
Now on Blu-Ray: The Flintstones Complete Series Celebrates an Animation Classic
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Former Bedrock ResidentĀ During this period of pandemic-related lockdown, it’s not surprising that, given the delays with new Fall TV shows having fallen behind production schedules, that most of us would decide to revisit some older TV properties, if only to keep cheerful and relatively sane. A great…
Superhero News: Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. Exhibit Coming Soon to Toronto
By Dominic Messier, Founder, Editor in Chief and S.H.I.E.L.D. Intern on Weekends Have you ever imagined yourself in one of Tony Stark’s workshops, surrounded by countless versions of his Iron Man armor, each with its own specifications, standing there at attention, larger than life? Ever thought you might be able to life Thor’s mighty…