Category: General Thoughts

  • The AMC Preshow Adventure

    The AMC Preshow Adventure

    As noted by so, so many people, the AMC preshow has gotten stupid long. While it’s true, and highly recommended, you don’t have to sit through any of it. Just show up 15 to 20 minutes after the posted start time and you should be fine. However, you choose to sit through it all, there…

  • We need to talk about Elio

    This past weekend, Elio finally was released by Disney and Pixar. You are forgiven if you didn’t realize it was coming out. To say that Disney and or Pixar did so little to promote this film is an understatement. Originally, this was supposed to come out last June. In 2023, there were trailers for it.…

  • The Year by Year Exercise

    The Year by Year Exercise

    Out of boredom one day, I started to put together what my favorite films were each year since I was born in 1987. Some years were harder than others, and some years have films that I feel in my bones (Jurassic Park obviously). So, below you will find the now 38 films year by year.…

  • Avengers: Doomsday Cast is Here!

    Production for next May’s installment of the Avengers series began officially today (March 26th). To announce the cast of that film, Marvel did a live-stream that slowly revealed chairs one at a time of the names of those in the cast. A lot of the names were obvious, but some confirmed what many needs like…

  • 97th Oscars Thought Bubble

    97th Oscars Thought Bubble

    Something I did last year when I was just figuring out what things I would like to do here on the blog was doing a post with my thoughts of the Oscar ceremony as it was happening. I had so much fun doing it last year, I decided to do it again. So, what follows…

  • 2025 Look Ahead

    2025 Look Ahead

    New year, and 2025 looks different than 2024. This year, we don’t have films delayed from the strike filling up part of the schedule. There are also at least two I was really looking forward to that got bumped to 2026. Looking at you, Batman. Still, the year is filled with options. Let’s take a…

  • The Inaugural Aluminum Mitten Awards

    The Inaugural Aluminum Mitten Awards

    If it hasn’t been clear yet, I am an award person. I like to see if I can guess what the “experts” select as winners. However, the thing is, those people voting are just like you and me. They just are in different circles in society. So, after a suggestion by a couple friends, I…

  • The Christmas Movie Conundrum

    Watching Red One last week, I was reminding of something that has bugged me for awhile. This is something most people will think is nit picky, but we all have our soapboxes to yell at our fellow commoners about a wrong that must be righted (in our view at least). That soapbox for me right…

  • Comic-Con MCU Thought Bubble

    Comic-Con MCU Thought Bubble

    San Diego Comic-Con was this past week, and after skipping it that last year, Feige was back to make the nerds hopefully hyped for the future. Last time he appeared in Hall H for the MCU panel in 2022, he spoke about/announced the following: She-Hulk series new trailer, Secret Invasion, Quantumania, Guardians 3, Black Panther:…

  • The Case for Theaters

    The Case for Theaters

    I have definitely felt a change when I have gone to movies over the last year or so. I am certainly not the only one to feel that too. It is a very real problem that is causing some to proclaim that the theaters are on the deathbed. Now, I don’t think it is that…