The Digital Movie Collector

  Not The Story I Remember I admit my knowledge of Black Adam comes from the animated movie "Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam". I have done my some research and found there was a mixture of comic story and creative licensing for this movie. Obviously, Dwayne Johnson would not want to be a full fledged villain but the later evolved anti-hero like Venom (I know Venom is Marvel not DC). I did find this new story interesting. Review The movie was pretty action packed through out with only a few times that it slowed down. The story was interesting and refreshing. I very much enjoyed seeing characters like Dr Fate and Hawkman. I loved Pierce Brosnan as Dr Fate. One of the best casting choices in my opinion next to Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam. There was a point in the story I had to look at my watch and realized the movie was not over yet. It could have been made into two movies with the amount of content but I am glad they made a single long movie. Although, I do sus...

  Split Reviews My children said they could not finish this movie. Others said it was one of the best Batman movies. So I of course had to watch it...free on HBOMax. Robert Patinson was definitely a reason I was skeptical. Surprisingly, he did make a decent young Batman. His Bruce Wayne was okay. Zoe Kravitz, Colin Farrell (unrecognizable as Penquin), Jeffrey Wright, and Andy Serkis made this an amazing cast. John Turturro was good but I am still getting over his character from the Transformers franchise. His character is much better in this movie. Review I felt like this was based in the early days of Christian Bale's Dark Knight, if you skip the part that Batman meets Selina Kyle in his second year as Batman and he forgets who she is by The Dark Knight Rises. So this is obviously a different version of Batman. I enjoyed the more realistic versions of Riddler and Penguin vs the ones from the 1990s. Although, I have to admit I loved Danny DeVito in the role back in the 1990s. There...

  Miles Teller I want to start off by saying I almost passed on this movie simply because Miles Teller has not played a character that I could like. I found a speck of reason to tolerate his character in The Divergent movies. In Fantastic Four, I felt his Reed Richards was one of the main reasons this movie was panned. I started to feel it was his acting and not the writing that made his characters unlikable. As Goose's son in this movie, I knew he would be a main character in this movie. For this reason alone, I really thought I would pass on this movie. To my greatest surprise, his character was one of the better parts of this movie. I would have never of guessed. Review It is very hard to review this movie spoiler free but I will do my best. Not sure what they could have done differently about the plot. The movie is definitely a continuation of the original 36 years later. Part of it did feel more like a remake than a sequel. Don't get me wrong, the original still is good ev...

  So It Begins Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has gotten mixed reviews. Let me try to shed some light on this. Those who have kept up with the Marvel series exclusive to Disney+ will understand what is going on. This expands the universe in ways that can be appreciates. For those who have not fallen into the Disney+ scam to keep customers shackled to their content that can only be found on their streaming service, the movie has some rather large plot holes that could confuse the normal MCU movie goer. This puts a large gap of those who will understand the whole story making it an extreme range of why some like and some don't like this movie. So for those who wish to enjoy the movie, I would recommend at least watching WandaVision on Disney+. If you have time, I would also recommend the What If...? animated series as well. Because Disney is not releasing their streaming content on DVD/Blu-ray anytime soon, I suspect this may start effecting viewers opinions on if future...

  Hercule Poirot I knew Death on the Nile was the sequel for The Murder on the Orient Express without reading the books. Hercule Poirot was the character that tied them together. His deductive search for the truth reminds me of Sherlock Holmes. Alas, Holmes did come first in literature by about 23 years. Holmes being English and Poirot being French. Like Holmes though, Poirot has several novels and short stories about his adventures. The new movies with Kenneth Branagh as Hercule are some of the more popular novels. I say new movies as The Murder on the Orient Express was a movie back in the 1970s. It also was followed by Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, and Appointment with Death. One wonders if they will remake all of these for the series. Review While this was a good mystery movie, I did feel the focused on the clues a little more than the first movie taking a little of the mystery out of it. The cast was great and the cinematography was amazing. I very much enjoyed this f...

  Retro Movies Everything from the 80s and 90s are coming back. Continuations like Matrix, Scream, and Halloween or reboots like Mortal Kombat have come up in recent years. Ghostbusters is no exception. I had been waiting for this movie to come out. I almost saw it in the theaters it looked so good. I have to admit that even though I had gotten a free copy of Ghostbusters 2016 through one of my rewards programs, I have still yet to watch it. Maybe I will one day. Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a continuation of the original two movies. This made the movie much more desirable to watch. I feel other movie goers had the same feelings towards it as it was not regarded as a flop like the 2016 version. Review Mckenna Grace really sells being the granddaughter or Spengler. Paul Rudd adds his humor to this movie. I can't even talk about who else shows up in the movie but if you liked the originals, you will enjoy this one. While the movie was not action from start to finish, it did have enough...

  Games to Movies With Disney/Marvel the primary source of successful comics to movies company, it is not surprising that other studios are leveraging games to movies. While not a new concept, live action movies based on games have been around since the 90s. Love it or hate it, Super Mario Bros started it all. A steady stream of movies based on games has been going on since then with only a few years with no movie released. Games are owned by several companies with notable names like Capcom, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Sega, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony to name a few. The most popular movie series in this genre being Resident Evil which release six movies with Milla Jovovich and a reboot of the series staring Kaya Scodelario as the new lead. I know more would say that Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft was much more successful but it only had two movies before an attempted reboot in 2018. Review Uncharted is a video game series produced for the PlayStation systems (a Sony company). ...

  Digital Gripe First, I want to apologize for the delay in posting a new reviews.  Had several personal things come up in January. I am hoping to do better as there have been a few movies I have seen recently that need reviewed. MGM is the production company for this movie. Like Paramount and Lionsgate, MGM does not participate in Movies Anywhere digital locker. As such, I tend to want the disc with digital purchasing. I have waited for this movie since it came out and finally the disc with digital was on sale for $15. The digital copy was on sale for $13 so I thought $2 extra for digital with disc was a good deal. Read the fine print. I have all my Bond movies in Vudu. Naturally, I assumed the digital copy would at least offer option between Vudu and iTunes. After ordering, I noticed the packaging specifically said for iTunes. Really! What happened to having a choice? I should have just returned it at that point but I was frustrated and tired of waiting. Lesson learned. Revi...