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Deadpool & Wolverine - Movie Review

 Goodbye 20th Century Fox This movie is an appropriate send off to the 20th Century Fox Marvel Universe. I am sure this will be the last Fox Marvel movie ever. I will try to keep this spoiler free but there are a lot of cameos in this movie. This movie was definitely for the fans. Review This movie starts out with action and is pretty non-stop action throughout the two hour run. The story focuses on the main characters journey. While the movie has elements from the Loki series, Deadpool's fourth wall breaking explains it enough for those who have not watched the series. This was a welcome departure from recent Disney Marvel movies like Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness where Wanda is a villain with no summary of what was missed from the WandaVision series to explain her change. While the Fox Marvel movies are heavily referenced in the movie, long time comic fans will notice many references as well. As a comic fan from the 80s and 90s, I appreciate all the references in t...

The End of Physical Media?

General With my self published book, I understand the cost benefits of digital over physical copies. I kept my price low for the book so that it was affordable. I get about 67 cents for each physical copy. Even with the price a dollar less, I get over twice that amount for digital. Is it a wonder why companies are starting to scale back their physical media for profit. So this scaling back keeps the physical costs high. I recently learned this lesson when I started looking for a music soundtrack. Turns out the company never made a physical copy. In fact, they have only released the music to streaming services (I will talk about that later). So I was unable to get the soundtrack. But this made me start to do some research. I was in Best Buy recently with my daughter and her husband. This was a good size store unlike the one in my town. I was surprised to find no movie section and at the time, I didn't notice an audio CD section either. Records are apparently the new craze so everyon...