Into the Longbox

To think that we live in a world where two different Captain Marvel movies can exist at the same time via their respective companies. If you don't get why I made that reference, don't worry about it. Means you're more normal than me. Anyways, through Fandango, I was able to see Shazam! a full two weeks before it's actual release. When this movie was first announced, I thought it was a stretch in the same way that Ant-Man was for Marvel. This is the movie that I felt no one was asking for. Like Ant-Man, I was pleasantly surprised by a movie that was unmoored from the current continuity of the DC Movie universe. People were name dropped, but do not appear in this movie. I will make this as spoiler free as possible. First off, let me say this. This movie is fun. This is the light hearted movie that DC needed. Frankly, I'm surprised it has taken this long. I love that this movie used the more modern take of Shazam as written by Geoff Johns over the past few yea...

I don't know how I forgot to write about this, but here we are. I finished the second season of Runaways a few weeks ago and yet I didn't write my thoughts down. I'm seriously slipping. Because I can't remember all the finer details, I guess this will be a shorter review. My gift to you, my dear reader. In short, I thought the second season of Runaways, while good, didn't capture the magic for me like the first season. In fact, I thought this season was a lot more middling. I'll try to explain without giving away in big plot points. In the last season, you had this whole mystery about how bad WERE the Pride. Our heroes fought against them and eventually ran away, hence the title. It's about branding people! This season, they ran away so... now what? That's what this season feels like. They get into misadventures, they clash with their parents multiple times and it feels like everyone turns on each other at some point. Maybe the point is that fa...

Now that I have seen Captain Marvel twice, I feel like I am in a good position to talk about it. If you know me, if I see a film multiple times, that is an indicator that I really liked it. I don't go and see EVERY movie multiple times, that's for sure. I'm not made of money. This movie warranted it. Be warned, I do my best to not give away any spoilers, but there may be things I say that give away some plot points. With that rambling opening out of the way, let me say that I really liked this movie. The Marvel formula still holds. Since the Marvel machine has been rolling for years now, outside of Black Panther and Doctor Strange, we haven't had to deal with an origin movie for a while now. So it was almost refreshing to be introduced to a new character that wasn't embroiled in the bombastic Infinity War movie we just had. However, this movie does give context to why Nick Fury went to his pager at the end of that film. I'll go a step further and say that...