Flashback Review: The Benchwarmers

2006 had some good comedies including “Idiocracy,” Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” and one of my all-time favorites, “Borat.” Although many movie goers laughed their butts of praising them, they had to endure unfunny stinkers like “The Shaggy Dog,” “Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties” and the […]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

After “Avengers: Endgame” closes Tony Stark & Steve Rogers’ story arcs in “The Infinity Saga,” Ryan Coogler (Creed) began development of a follow-up to “Black Panther” with Chadwick Boseman reprising his role as T’Challa. Sadly, Chadwick died from colon cancer. His untimely death became a gut-wrenching experience for Ryan and his crew. Chadwick’s friends, colleagues […]

South Park: Imaginationland

South Park’s three-part episode, “Imaginationland.” aired in 2007 (same year The Sopranos ended) on Comedy Central. It earned positive reviews from critics, fans and viewers alike. Imaginationland won an Emmy for “Outstanding Animated Program for One Hour or More.” I consider Imaginationland as a standalone sequel to “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.” All three […]

Godzilla and Kong: The New Empire

Following the financial and streaming success of “Godzilla vs. Kong,” Warner Bros. (WB for short) and Legendary Pictures green-lit a sequel with the two titular characters teaming up to fight an evil version of King Kong. Meanwhile, human characters played by Rebecca Hall & Brian Tyree Henry reprise their roles as Monarch scientists monitoring Kaiju […]

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

Before they created “South Park,” college students, Trey Parker & Matt Stone became friends bonding over Monty Python and their sense of dark humor. While studying, they made a very animated short film developed in 1992 titled, “The Spirit of Christmas.” It’s about a group of kids who build a snowman and he’s brought to […]

La La Land

Fresh from earning praise for “Whiplash,” film director, Damien Chazelle (First Man, Babylon) worked on his next project he’s been working on since college. An ambitious project based on his fondness for musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Set in modern times, “La La Land” is about a pair of starving artists named, Mia […]