Man of Steel (2013)—An Austere Depiction of Post-9/11 America
With Disney and Marvel Studios’ success with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, many other major movie studios decided that they wanted...
Michael Li
I am a film critic based in the United States of America and have been reviewing movies for 4 years. Within that time, I’ve covered over 300 films, from Hollywood blockbuster to indie films, and even foreign films based in East, Southeast Asia and parts of Europe.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)—Dark, Gothic and Disney
Loosely based on the 1831 novel of the same name, Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame is often glossed over...
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)—Marvel Meets Star Wars
The Ant-Man films have never really impressed me. Although the first film was a solid heist film with effective humor...
Doomsday Stories (2023): Confused, Disjointed and Contrived
Who doesn’t love a good apocalypse film? A scenario where the world gets infected by a deadly virus and goes...
The Shadow (1994)—A Comic Book Film Far Ahead of Its Time
In 1931, The Shadow was a very popular book series that was later adapted to serialized radio, comic books and...
Knock at the Cabin (2023)—Violent Jehovah’s Witnesses and The Apocalypse
Back in the beginning of his career, director M. Night Shyamalan was almost untouchable with his first feature film The...
The Crow (1994) Review and Retrospective
DC Comics films dominating the box office. However, back in the 1980s, 1990s and even early 2000s, comic book films...
M3GAN (2023)—Grief, Emotional Attachment and Moving On
Who’s reading this and has a fear of creepy dolls? What if I told you that this movie not only...
Freaky (2020)—Fun, Campy and Bloody
Within the horror film genre, exists the slasher film subgenre. Films like 1974’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre and John Carpenter’s 1978...
