Featuring tremendous hand-to-hand combat sequences but light on character development despite its three-hour runtime, The Batman achieves the feel of a great Batman movie without capturing the soul of one.
Category: Features & Commentary
‘Horizon Zero Dawn: Liberation’ Graphic Novel: The Conskipper Review
Since Liberation takes places during the original game’s story, and not Forbidden West, writer Anne Toole and artist Elmer Damaso have a little more creative license to fill in the blanks, while steering clear of any aspects of Forbidden West.
‘Radio Spaceman: Mission to Numa 4’ #1: The Conskipper Review
Radio Spaceman (which started as a random sketch by Mignola) captures all of the fantastic elements of 1950s sci-fi and monster movies, filtered through a modern Lovercraftian lens.
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’: The Conskipper Review
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare alley is an excellent film— easily the best movie of 2021— and one of the hauntingly greatest examples of storytelling in this director’s impressive career.
‘Scream’ (2022): The Conskipper Review
While it doesn’t misunderstand the franchise and its killer and miss the mark as greatly as the 2018 Halloween “requel” did, Scream (2022) doesn’t know what to do with the elements of the franchise which made it so great, and it largely retreads ground which was covered with more depth in Scream 4.
‘Hawkeye’ Episodes One and Two: The Conskipper Review
Similar to what WandaVision accomplished with the MCU’s underserved Avengers couple, Disney+ hopes that lightning strikes twice with the time and space to expound upon the traits that make Hawkeye one of comicdom’s favorites.