Fantastic Four: First Steps is so good that it erases the bad taste from the previous Fantastic Four movies. It’s as good as those movies were bad. And that’s VERY good. Clearly, director Matt Shakman and writers Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer actually read the comics the movie was based on. That seems like a pretty obvious thing to do, but we’ve … [Read more...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo: FLASH! He’ll Save Every One of Us!
The Flash, a long-anticipated movie bereft with problems and controversy, is an ambitious undertaking which fluctuates wildly from brilliant to pedestrian, succeeding more often than it fails. The plot, pulled right from the comics, is intriguing. Overcome by sorrow, the Flash (Ezra Miller) ignores the advice of Batman (Ben Affleck) and goes back in time to prevent the … [Read more...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse!
The animated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse may be the most significant Marvel movie since the last Avengers movie. The writing is brilliant, the animation is the best I've ever seen (though they still too often use the boring, blocky triangle body shape for men), and there are more than enough Easter eggs in this film to satisfy even the crankiest of old time comic … [Read more...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo: Love, Lightning, Laughter, and Something for the Ladies!
The new Thor film movie Thor: Love and Thunder could have just as easily been called Lightning and Laughter. Either way, it would be a hit. Chris Hemsworth reprises his role as the Norse God of Thunder, trying to figure out his place in a universe which has become increasingly complicated. He was last seen in Avengers: Endgame in 2019, where he was not quite the … [Read more...]
The Sanctum Sangiacomo: Finally!
After months of being denied fresh fantasies, the NEW comics have returned. Finally! Like many of you, I have been re-reading tons of old trade paperbacks and various collected editions of my favorite characters: Avengers, Justice League, Superman, X-Men and, of course, the Metal Men. Yes, the Metal Men, the robot creations of Doctor Will Magnus that started in the early … [Read more...]