Marvel Announces Tom Holland as MCU Spider-Man!

Preface/Premise

Some of my friends have asked me, “John, why haven’t you done a post on the Spider-Man casting!?”
- Well because if I did, I would have been wrong like three times… (I still think Ansel Elgort would have been awesome…)
After months upon months of speculation, and rumors and “confirmations” and even more rumors and “confirmations,” Marvel and Sony have finally cast their new Spider-Man and he is: Tom Holland!
And they have Jon Watts directing.
So, let’s talk about it because I love Spider-Man and I’m a fan of this.

True Detective Season 2 Premiere Review

Preface

I try not to do episodic reviews of shows because I don’t watch a ton of shows that air week-to-week, I prefer the binge-style format, and when I do, I’m usually proven wrong.
- Full Season 5 of Walking Dead Review will be up soon…
But True Detective is the show, okay.
If you guys don’t know how much I love True Detective, check out my Review of Season 1 here first of all. And when it comes to single seasons of television, the two I currently hail as the greatest single seasons of all time, the ones I reference in prayer to the TV gods are Breaking Bad Season 5 and True Detective Season 1.
I loved the first season of True Detective so much that I literally lent my DVD of it to my English teacher! (Who also loved it.)
Therefore, going in, I wasn’t expecting Season 2 to be nearly as good but this first episode was very decent overall.

Premise

So True Detective is a show on HBO that began airing last year in Season 1 with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
But it’s an anthology style show, so Season 2 has a brand new cast and a brand new case to be solved.
Among that new cast is Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, and Vince Vaughn.
And this first episode is mainly setting up these characters for the rest of the season, not dealing too much with the case.
And even though I won’t be including too many spoilers, I’m gonna issue an official SPOILER WARNING.
So if you haven’t seen this episode, feel free to check it out, I do recommend it, then come back and read the rest!

Preface

Clueless is a movie that I saw a few years back and ultimately I didn’t like too much for some reasons I’ll discuss in this review.
But then I re-watched it upon special request and have a different opinion which I’m more happy to talk about!

Premise

So Clueless is about teen life in L.A. in the 90s, and particularly about the shenanigans of one girl named Cher and her friends.
The movie doesn’t have one, set, particular storyline to it from beginning to end but these escapades ultimately tie together in a really neat way.

Preface

Alright ladies and gentlemen, every now and again a movie is about to come out and that movie is in a very specific genre.
- Such as Avengers: Age of Ultron in the Superhero Genre.
And when such a release is nigh, I’ll do a Top 10 List of my favorite movies from that genre.
Now Pixar, of course, isn’t a genre but is a production company.
And no this isn’t a Top 10, but I still haven’t seen two or three of the less-hyped Pixar movies (Monsters University, Cars 2, Bug’s Life) so I couldn’t round it out to an even 10.
But nevertheless, in preparation for Inside Out, a movie I’ll see probably Thursday, here are my Top 5 favorite Pixar Movies!

Preface

They spelled “Genesis” with a Y. Why do you think I’m nervous!?
No but in all seriousness, I typically won’t do a disclaimer for these kinds of posts but here we go!
So, what I’m about to say isn’t why I think this movie is going to BAD, it’s just why what has come out so far worries me about Terminator Genisws.
This doesn’t mean I want the movie to be bad, nor do I want to give it a bad review, I want to love every movie I see.
But there are a few signs so far as to why I have my concerns for Terminator: Genises…
So the movie could be great (which I want it to be!), and I will acknowledge I was totally wrong. Or it could be terrible and I shouldn’t have ever doubted myself.
Either way, here’s why I’m worried about Terminator: Genisys.