Welcome to another fine episode of Cinemavino! This week continues our summer series, looking at overlooked blockbuster sequels. Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a great movie, let alone sequel. Guillermo Del Toro knocks it out of the park with imaginative writing, spot-on casting, and special effects that haven’t aged a day in thirteen years. …
Todd Wofford
When the topic of great sequels comes up, I'm always shocked that Hellboy II rarely gets tossed into the hat. The first installment blew a cool breeze into the superhero genre, which was only just starting to recover from Joel Schumacher's Batman poopy-scoopers . This second Hell-ride takes that promise and actually builds on it,…
For tonight's episode, we take a look at the final two episodes of Marvel's Loki, and the larger implications it has for Marvel's Phase Four. Needless to say, *spoilers are everywhere*, so proceed with caution.
Space Jam: A New Legacy is actually the same legacy, just grafted onto a different superstar and sharpened with better CGI. Beyond that, something downright weird is going on in this film: Jam Deux seems to be a cinematic manifestation of Warner Bros. massive inferiority complex. It's not enough that they remind us they're the company that…
That's right--it's a Cinemavino double-header! For this episode, we go live-to-tape again, and discuss Black Widow. SPOILERS ABOUND, so go see the movie and read my review, then go check out our podcast.
As always, we mix in a few cuss-type words. Just a smidge of listener discretion is advised.
For pairing, we went with the Cabernet from Cult. The Red Room,…
This will be our first attempt at live-to-tape. We kick off our summer series, looking at blockbuster sequels. In this installment, we discuss Batman Returns.
In Batman Returns, Tim Burton delivers the most audaciously eccentric blockbuster ever made. After the mammoth success of the first Batman, the pressure mounted for a sequel that matched its combination of arty neo-noir and lucrative pop-culture spectacle. Burton was initially reluctant to return, and the studio granted him enormous leeway to craft the film as he…
If the MCU's cultural phenomenon were a swimming pool, then Black Widow requires a doggy paddle out to the deep end. Along the way, you'll pass twenty-three movies, multiple TV shows, social media tie-ins, video games, and Youtube shorts. You don't have to master that entire juggernaut to stay afloat, but miss just enough of Marvel's sprawling…
The Tomorrow War is a film of frustrating contrasts: Its intriguing sci-fi premise gets squandered in an overlong, meandering story that feels like a frantic dash to go nowhere special. To make matters worse, the filmmakers cast Chris Pratt, a fine comedic actor possessed with his own unique, freewheeling charm, only to hamstring him with a…
For this week's Cinemavino, we take a look at The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. In a broader discussion, we cover films that claim to be based on real events, and what obligation they have to the actual truth.
Also, we draw movies to screen for our summer season, where we're diving into forgotten/overlooked sequels to…
