By Dave B.

The Suicide Squad is the reboot/sequel to 2016’s “Suicide Squad”. In the franchise’s current iteration, a group of villains are forced to invade a Caribbean island on behalf of the American government. While there, they discover a conspiracy of galactic proportions and must choose between their orders and their own dubious morality. 

By Dave B.

Soldiers from 30 years in the future travel back in time and deliver a dire warning: aliens have arrived and humankind is on the verge of extinction. They need people from our time to travel to the future and help fight the nearly unstoppable scourge. Dan Forester (Chris Pratt), a former special forces operative and current disillusioned science teacher, is one of the many civilians drafted and sent to the future battlefield. While there, he learns that there is only one way to defeat the enemy: to stop them before their onslaught begins.

By Dave B.

Las Vegas has been overrun by zombies. The surviving heroes of the desperate, doomed struggle to save the city find themselves down on their luck. When they’re presented with the chance to make the score of a lifetime by robbing a casino vault, they can’t resist and head into the heart of the infested city. But they soon discover that they’ve underestimated their enemies, both living and dead.

By Dave B.

What if great power doesn’t come with great responsibility? That’s one of the questions posed by Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix) as it follows a family of superheroes searching for their place in the world. Sworn to uphold a code that stipulates they will never kill, a new generation of heroes find themselves at odds with rules and responsibilities that don’t fit their current world. Society balances on the precipice as hidden threat surfaces to shatter the foundations of the world. 

By Dave B.

If you’ve ever played any of the video games, you likely know the general plot of Mortal Kombat. Tournaments are held between Earth and Outworld and if Outworld wins 10 in a row, they invade Earth and enslave humanity. In this reboot of the franchise, Outworld has won nine consecutive tournaments. But instead of risking his nearly certain victory on the outcome of a the battles between Earth’s and Outworld’s champions, the soul-stealing sorcerer and leader of Outworld, Shang Tsung, decides to cheat and eliminate Earth’s competitors before the competition can begin. A past-his-prime cage fighter and the remainder of Earth’s heroes must fulfill destiny and defeat the sorcerer’s assassins.

By Dave B.

When Godzilla goes on a seemingly unprovoked rampage in Florida, Kong and his human allies trek to his ancestral home in an attempt to uncover a power source that will stop the King of the Monsters. But some of the people involved in this mission have another agenda and they’ll put the world at risk to accomplish their aims. 

By Dave B.

​If you’re reading a review of Zack Snyder’s Justice League you likely already know enough of the film’s history and premise, so I won’t go deeply into them. In short, it’s a superhero team-up featuring DC comics stalwarts Aquaman, Cyborg, The Flash, Superman, and Wonder Woman. They square off against the villain Steppenwolf and his master, Darkseid with the fate of the Earth in the balance. 

By Dave B.

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), the latest instalment in the Terminator series, serves as a reboot of the long-running franchise. It introduces a new savior of humanity, a new bodyguard, and some familiar faces, battling against another artificial intelligence bent on wiping out beleaguered human survivors in the future by altering the past. 

By Dave B.

​Following the events in “Avengers: Endgame”, Wanda Maximoff is bereft over the loss of her love, Vision. Eventually, she ends up in the town of Westview, somehow living the life of her dreams. Unbeknownst to her, the town has been cut off from the world, the residents mentally enslaved and living false lives, and her activities are being televised. As her idealized life begins to exhibit a dark underbelly, Wanda must face her past in order to embrace her future. 

By Dave B.

I don’t often get asked to review websites or online services, but when I do, I almost always say yes. It’s a nice change of pace from reviewing movies and television shows, plus I get to find some interesting websites that I may have not been exposed to otherwise. Case in point: Tremonster Films.