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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Movie Review. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the latest offering from Marvel and Disney and is the 25th film in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). The second of four Marvel movies hitting the theaters, if they stay open, in this clusterfuck of a 2021. The film is helmed by Destin Daniel Cretton the director of Short Term 12 and Just Mercy with Cretton also co-writing the screenplay and story with Dave Callaham. Relative newcomer and actual stock photo model Simu Liu leads a mostly Asian cast as Xu Shang-Chi with Awkwafina, Meng’er Zhang, Tony Leung, Michelle Yeoh and Fala Chen supporting to various degrees. Shang-Chi and the Legend of…. I’m not going to type that out every fucking time, is an 132 minute martial arts packed action movie more at home with movies like Crouching Tiger than Captain America. As per usual I’ll try to keep spoilers to a minimum going forward. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings follows well…

The latest from DC animation Studios is Justice League: Throne of Atlantis; the second excursion into the New 52 universe via animated feature. As with all DC animated features of late it’s beautifully visually realized but sadly this one seems to fall flat in terms of Story and Plot. The following review may contain minor spoilers so readers beware.  Justice League: Throne of Atlantis picks up a few months after the events of the previous film Justice League: War.  The members of the recently formed League are still trying to work together and would much prefer to go solo and see the League as only a publicity stunt. As the different...

Did your wife or girlfriend insist that you go see Fifty Shades of Grey for Valentine’s Day? Poor sucker. The Wife and I went out and saw Kingsmen: The Secret Service because she’s a down ass chick.  It’s smooth, it’s funny, it’s violent, it’s unapologetically British and it’s definitely totally Dench. Kingsmen: The Secret Service is a non-super hero comic book adaptation spy extravaganza from director Mathew Vaughn and comic book genius Mark Millar. The following review may contain some minor spoilers so readers beware.    The Kingsmen are a Kabul of clandestine English gentlemen who so happen to be the world’s foremost purveyors of f...