Tyler Larson

"Phantom of the Megaplex" huh, this Disney Channel film sounds more like an episode of Scooby-Doo: Where Are You. A group of "meddling" kids led by Pete Riley try to save the fictional "Grand Megaplex Theatre" a creepy kook with a mask and a dark cloak whose trying to sabotage the theatre's biggest film event. Like I said it sounds like this is an extended Scooby-Doo episode and maybe Pete should call Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc gang to catch The Megaplex Phantom.

What can I say about Thor: Love and Thunder? It's a fun Marvel movie and loved how it reminded me of a classic romantic comedy but still retaining emotional and serious moments when needed. The stand outs of this movie were hands down the performances of Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, and Christian Bale. -Hemsworth is still fun to watch as Thor and nice to see one of the original Avengers still around in the MCU. -Portman did a great job as Jane in this movie as well, she seems to have more character growth here than the first two films as her Mighty Thor story with her battling cancer is truly the film's emotional heart and soul. -Finally, I can't believe Marvel and Disney brought Batman himself, Christian Bale, as Gorr the God Butcher he stole the show as the film's villain in terms of both of tragic story and motivation. Just wished he killed a few more gods on screen. -Tessa Thompson and Waititi both stood out Valkyrie and Korg too. Still love them! The crew of this film did a great job working on this film, I love Taika Waititi when he directs a Thor film being that I loved his work on Thor: Ragnarok. Michael Giacchino is awesome as ever when it comes to conducting a music score for a comic book movie and cleverly backed up newcomer, Nami Malumed. All in all, I loved watching this movie it was loads of fun. Another classic Thor adventure, Hurrah!

Despite some weird backlash this film went through before it was released, this film was actually pretty good especially since I wasn't big fan of the original animated movie because of it's outdated animation and themes. The new Snow White film decides to add some nice things like the addition of Snow's new love interest, Jonathan and his band of rebels, and plus scenes featuring Snow White and Queen Grimhilde interacting were cool. The performance and songs were great, Rachel Zegler and Andrew Burnap both had chemistry as Snow White and Jonathan, which made their character's relationship more believeable and their song "A Hand Meets A Hand" was cute. Gal Gadot was frickin awesome as Evil Queen Grimhilde, she was both menacing and just downright EVIL and I loved it! It was also cool Disney gave her a Villain Song in "All Is Fair". The Seven Dwarfs were also pretty funny and love that Dopey got some charcter development too. And yes people, Disney didn't forget any of the original songs as new versions "Whistle While You Work", "Heigh-Ho", and "The Silly Song" are featured. The only big critiques that I have were the mostly with the CGI especially The Dwarfs themselves, I still debate weather Disney should've used real Drawf actors or not. I also believe that Jonathan should've been added to the film's promotion posters because he is the third main character.

Suprised by the mixed critical reception this movie recieved but I still really liked despite it's issues. It's understandable why Marvel went a more serious route with the third Ant-Man film because now were in Phase 5 and it's to set up Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. The positives I have with the film: -The Acting: Paul Rudd delivered a great lead performance as Scott Lang in this and loved his chemistry with the cast. Michelle Pfeiffer had more to do this time as the Janet aka OG Wasp and loved how the film explains her time in the Quantum Realm. Kathryn Newton was a welcome addition to the film as the new Cassie Lang and she did good in the role. Finally, Jonathan Majors perfectly nailed Kang the Conqueror as the film's villain in terms of presence and power of his portrayal. -World Building: The Quantum Realm and Kang's city of, Chronopolis, looked visually amazing. -Music Score: Christophe Beck really outdid himself this time in terms of the score. -Post Credit Scene: The introduction of the Council of Kangs was so unexpected and was crazy that Jonathan Majors played every variant of Kang in that scene. Critiques: -Hope van Dyne didn't really get much development in the film other than she and Scott have gotten engaged. -Some of the secondary characters liked the members of the Quantum Realm rebels weren't as memorable and Bill Murray's character didn't get much to do. -The biggest issue I have with the movie is that Scotty's best pal, Luis, is not in this movie. Luis was so important in the two prievous films because he's so funny and you gotta his pals Kurt and Dave there too, Come on Marvel, where's the three wombats? At least Marvel could've had still found a way for Michael Pena to make a cameo appearance. Still I liked the film and think this movie is much better than what the critics say. My Final Score is a 7/10.

This game is actually pretty fun. While it's not a masterpiece like Marvel's Spider-Man in 2018, Marvel's Avengers still is a solid enough game in it's own right as it serves as the second game to the Marvel Gaming Universe. The criticisms I have are the lackluster music score (I kinda wished Alan Silvestri's Avengers Theme played throughout the game), some of the side missions can be a bit repititive, and adding in two variants of Hawkeye and Thor into the game (I like Kate Bishop and Jane Foster but we should've gotten Captain Marvel and Wasp). But still I think the positives outweigh the negatives since because it's got good gameplay, nice graphics, memorable story campaign including it's DLC characters like Spider-Man and Black Panther, and a splendid voice cast.

Fox has once again tarnished the great comic book storyline written by Chris Claremont. The only thing that was good about the film was Hans Zimmer’s score and Tye Sheridan as Cyclops but everything else about the film was pretty bad.

Seriously these so-called Star Wars “Fans” online are just stupid toxic people that are just jealous at Disney cause they made a better Star Wars movie then what Lucas did for the Prequels. Star Wars has pretty much gotten one of the most toxic fan bases ever and it’s been around since The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. Hopefully in the near future this film will become a cult classic and they'll understand what a great film it truly is. I’d give this movie a 9/10 because Rian Johnson had the balls to go above and beyond with the sequel The Force Awakens and accomplished it with amazing results. Considering Johnson has directed the acclaimed 2012 film, Looper, he was an interesting choice to direct the eighth installment of the Skywalker Saga and what’s great about The Last Jedi is that Johnson managed to tell a story in a unique way. First great thing to know about the movie is that The Last Jedi took inspiration from George Lucas’ old drafts for the Sequel Trilogy back in the 90’s which was long before the release the Prequels. The characters of Rey and Kylo Ren (albeit with different names) were apart of Lucas’ original scripts as he wanted a female protagonist to be taught by an older Luke Skywalker who had become a hermit after his nephew destroyed his Jedi academy. Johnson used some of those ideas but did a little tweaking to get that into the story he’s telling while respecting the legacy George Lucas created. Secondly, Johnson gave a lot of development for the new characters like for example Kylo Ren accomplished something that his grandfather, Darth Vader, never thought doing; killing and overthrowing his master. That’s the way of the Sith and granted Kylo is a Dark Jedi but still he killed Snoke and instead of seeing the error of his ways he embraced the dark side of the Force much further. Rey is also giving a lot of development to as she is trying to understand the ways of the Force after Luke tells her about the failures of the Jedi. Poe Dameron’s character is also giving an interesting arc where he learns that his reckless heroics can have major consequences and tries to become a better leader. The film teaches us the true meaning of failure which means to look past at our mistakes and learn to become our better selves. And Finally, the last great thing about this film is the amazing visual effects which I say is prove the best we have ever seen in a Star Wars movie. Rian Johnson had his long time cinematographer, Steve Yedlin, film many scenes of Ahch-To Island at Skelling Michael in Ireland which you can actually go to see where they filmed the scenes with Rey, Luke, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 is just amazing. Editor, Bob Ducsay, also visualized the other worlds and locations such as the city of Canto Bight and the salt plains of Crait. Going back to Ahch-To, it’s probably one of my new favorite Star Wars planets because it’s the place where the first Jedi Temple once stood and probably were Yoda trained as a Jedi since we see his Force ghost. All in all, I have to say Star Wars: Ep. 8- The Last Jedi has got to be the best Star Wars film since the The Empire Strikes Back and no one will ever take that away from me.

This probably should’ve been more of a Nightwing show rather than a series about the Teen Titans. Brenton Thwaites and Curran Walters are probably the only good performers of the show that are at least trying to portray actual characters but the writing of theirs just feels too bland. There a lot of poor writing and undeveloped characters that make this show not really interesting to me and it pales in comparison to other acclaimed shows that DC has done.