Batman vs Superman has come to theaters and was back on DVD in the middle of the year. What did I make of Batman vs Superman as an idea, before seeing the movie? I saw a man wearing a tee-shirt with ‘Batman’ scrawled over it. It seemed to me that he identified with Batman rather…

The Matrix (1999, USA) offered alternative universe/futuristic science fiction, but bring it down to earth. Movies naturally point to something about our world, even in the most obscure movies. In The Matrix, the ideas about our world may be, as I understand The Matrix, is to free yourself from the authoritarian controls of the world.…

The Huntsman Winter’s War (2016, USA) is a medieval fantasy, that continues the narrative of Snow White and the Huntsman (2012, USA). Challenging first act The prominent character, Queen Freya, isn’t sympathetic, at first. Freya cannot have love in this life so turns into the Ice Queen. She rises up an army and overtakes her sister’s…

Another view of X-Men Apocalypse… Oscar Isaac played the original mutant/god En Sabah Nur in X-Men Apocalypse (2016, USA). In 2015, Isaac played a couple of characters with less than god-like powers, though coming close to that. He played a top-level pilot for the resistance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Poe Dameron is flawed…

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