Despite leaning heavily on its forerunner, this lushly-filmed blockbuster delights and entertains, and surprises with some exciting innovations. — Premise A power vacuum exists after T’Challa’s death which incites a stampede to exploit Wakanda’s natural resources, leading to conflict between Suri (Letitia Wright) and Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) with the underwater kingdom of Talokan led by the vengeful Namar (Tenoch Huerta).

Despite its numerous continuity flaws, this film nevertheless fulfills its promise of dark comedy and drama on a confining Irish island in the 1920s. — Continuity Errors A country vet friend of mine (who admittedly hated this movie) reeled off a long list of its continuity errors. Why was Padraic (Colin Farrell) delivering pails of milk to the dairy when all he had was a herd of beef cattle? Why did Padraic have a beloved miniature donkey…

As long as you appreciate this film for the piece of fluff that it is, you won’t be disappointed. Indeed, you might be uplifted… — Premise At daggers drawn, two bickering divorcees (George Clooney & Julia Roberts) join forces to undermine the marriage of their beloved daughter to a Balinese seaweed farmer: the wedding of her dreams, and of their nightmares. Opinion Ticket to Paradise has been in the theatres since late September and has performed moderately…

Medium is a beautiful way to blog. But it has its revengeful side. — Taking a two-month sabbatical In September I decided to take a two-month sabbatical from writing on Medium. There were some personal reasons why I decided to do that, and anyway I was completing a content marketing course which was taking a lot of my time. Beyond that, I wanted to conduct an experiment: just…

I followed the Couch to 5K program thoroughly. But once I graduated it was a different matter… — That wonderful feeling The last week of the Couch to 5K program is a hard slog. You have to check in with three 30-minute runs, and even though the previous week you did three 28-minute runs, somehow that extra two minutes seems like a cavernous abyss. Nevertheless, I slogged through it. I will…

Suffering from a lukewarm critics’ reception, the latest DC franchise of Black Adam deserves a second look… — Premise Teth-Adam (Dwayne Johnson) was born in Kahndaq, an ancient Middle Eastern country, where he was chosen to acquire the powers of the gods and sought vengeance instead of compassionate justice when his son was killed by the malevolent authorities of a tyrant king. Teth-Adam suddenly disappeared when he was entombed…