The Wheel and Axle

There’s a reason why Wonder Woman is queen of superheroes.

As though taking George Michael away from us on Christmas Day weren’t enough, 2016 continues its reign of terror by snatching Princess Leia away from us just a couple of days later.

Carrie Fisher had suffered a heart attack sometime last week, but reports indicated she was already in stable condition. Now, just a few days later, she’s gone.

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Or at least, that’s basically how Ezra Miller describes his Flash for next year’s Justice League in this week’s Entertainment Weekly. And they released a new movie image, to boot.

Rumor has it a new trailer will drop before the year ends. Fingers crossed!

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Rogue One, Part 1: The Gray Side

Spoilers, young padawan!

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, despite being a stand-alone film almost divorced from the main film series in terms of tone and the characters who populate each one, is essentially a direct prequel to the original 1977 film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Some have even joked that if you wanted spoilers to Rogue One, all you needed to do was watch and read the opening crawl of A New Hope.

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Spoilers, young padawan!

Star Wars – especially the main episodic film series – has been known for its fantastic lightsaber fights, its mystical subtext, its galaxy-spanning tales of heroes and tragedies and triumphs. In many ways, it is a family epic – the story of the Skywalker family, from Anakin to Luke and Leia to Kylo Ren (and, if speculations are correct, even Rey).

Despite its primary depiction of one’s struggle to remain good and to resist the temptation to turn evil, it has also largely been a story that is pretty black and white in its morality. Good vs. Evil. Light vs. Dark. The Heroic Rebels vs. The Villainous Empire. The struggle has always been about simple right and wrong, and with perhaps the exceptions of Han Solo (who, in being a mercenary, was in it for the money and not for a sense of justice, at least until he developed over the course of the series), Lando Calrissian (whose initial betrayal was due to being compromised but in the end proved to be an ally), and Finn (the stormtrooper who turns his back on the Empire in The Force Awakens) the majority of the characters have either been plainly good or bad.

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Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back. The 3D/4DX audience that I was a part of last Saturday actually even applauded heartily when the credits came up.

And I shed some tears. I’m not even going to pretend.

Watch out for my full review soon.

Happy 49th birthday to the Shield-Maiden of Rohan who showed us that it takes a woman to vanquish a Nazgul that no man could ever destroy. Miranda “Eowyn” Otto will always be the biggest badass of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy (yes, Legolas my darling dearest, you come in a very close second).

Wonder Woman Vs. Wolverine: who wins?

Absolutely legit.

Credits: bryanzap.deviantart.com

Since my choice for Hal Jordan (Chris Pine) is now Steve Trevor, and since I wanted Armie to be Batman but that’s also not happening, please make this come true instead.

Then throw in Kevin Zegers as Kyle Rayner and Boris Kodjoe as John Stewart, and I’ll be happy.

I might even start finding Hal Jordan remotely interesting.

Despite the consistent low critical reviews across the series, I’ve always been a huge fan of the Underworld films.

Admittedly, the fourth film (Awakening) was a so-so follow-up, particularly since I wasn’t fond of the time jump from the second film (the third was a prequel) and I thought the different direction it took wasn’t much to my liking. The characters from the first two films mostly disappeared (to be fair, many of them were dead), and there seemed to be too much scientific mumbo-jumbo. Now, Underworld has always tried to be a little bit more grounded than the usually-mystical vampire/werewolf films, but the the fourth film took it to “evil scientists” levels that I thought didn’t work well and made the mystique of the series falter a bit.

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