Enjoyable follow-up to Shazam! Picks up where the 2019 feature left off. Again the stakes are high as Shazam and his foster sibs/family are confronted with three incredibly powerful adversaries. Helen Mirren plays one of them and, of course, she is good.

Zachary Levi leans into his role and shows admirable comic ability and also delivers some pathos as the ultimate "Man-Child", the brain and soul of a teen in the body of a god. This aspect is exploited throughout…

David Weiner and team waste no time giving us an encore for In Search of Darkness. This one is a treatment of 80s science fiction films and it features all the professionalism of the first mega documentary.

This one is a mere five hours but it is a fun ride through the era. I have actually seen less Sci-Fi than Horror from the 80s so I was taking notes. Again I was wistfully disappointed when it ended. Again, fine achievement.…

I'm not really a fan of certain directors, per se. I tend to react to the film as story, without bias either way as to who directed. So, as not to be accused of jumping on a bandwagon, I will say I thought Nope was innovative, absorbing and just aces. Good job Jordan Peele!

The "creature"/menace/UFO or however you want to categorize it, was unlike any boogeyman I've ever seen....and I've seen a thousand horror films. Some haven't seen the…

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Here's one of the more impressive new releases in the horror realm. Since it is so current, I will avoid spoilers, if possible.

This is the fourth James Wan film I have seen and it has its own fingerprints, not seeming to have that much in common with his other films. There's a lot of money up there on the screen, so Wan had a big budget. He certainly utilized it to produce a handsomely staged and…