POP's Best Comics, Graphic Novels, Movies, and TV of 2022
The BEST OF 2022, from some of the POP Team: IAN M.: 2022 continued my trend of reading reprints and translations. The American comic...
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Austin Kemp
- Nov 15, 2022
- 3 min
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever MOVIE REVIEW - from grief to hope in this impactfully healing eulogy
Director: Ryan Coogler; Starring: Letitia Wright, Danai Gurira, Tenoch Huerta, Angela Bassett, Winston Duke, Lupita Nyong'o. Black...
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Mack Johnson
- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
Black Adam MOVIE REVIEW: epic yet gratuitous action, tragic story, focus on family & what heroism is
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra, Starring: Dwayne Johnson (Teth-Adam/Black Adam), Sarah Shahi (Adrianna Tomaz), Aldis Hodge (Carter...
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Mack Johnson
- Jul 20, 2022
- 3 min
REVIEW BOMBING: Why is it so hard to stop being negative and just enjoy the show?
Most advance reviews of comic book-based tv shows or movies these days are not positive, unless they are a major event, like WandaVision...
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Austin Kemp
- Jul 19, 2022
- 4 min
Thor: Love and Thunder REVIEW - stellar visuals can't make up for lack of substance
Director: Taika Waititi; Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Christian Bale. I saw Thor: Love and Thunder. A fan...
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Austin Kemp
- May 11, 2022
- 2 min
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness REVIEW: Not a revolution, but definitely a revelation
Directed by: Sam Raimi; Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Xochitl Gomez, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams; Music by: Danny...
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Aritra Paul
- Apr 6, 2022
- 6 min
The Batman: a thought-provoking, insightful MOVIE REVIEW from a different perspective.
Noir is a genre that I find hard to distinguish and pinpoint, but the moment the screen opened for The Batman, I knew it was Noir. With...
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Austin Kemp
- Mar 4, 2022
- 4 min
The Batman MOVIE REVIEW: The best live-action Batman movie yet!
Directed by: Matt Reeves, Written by: Matt Reeves, Peter Craig, (Batman created by Bill Finger with Bob Kane), Starring: Robert...
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Mack Johnson
- Jan 7, 2022
- 7 min
The Best Comic Book TV + Movies of 2021, in our POPular opinion!
Like the comic book industry, many films and tv series suffered from COVID-related delays this year, but there were still some noteworthy...
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Austin Kemp
- Dec 29, 2021
- 4 min
Spider-Man: No Way Home MOVIE REVIEW: amazing fantasy explores sacrifice, what it means to be a hero
SPOILER FREE REVIEW!!! (unless you don't already know who all the villains are in this film) “With great power, there must also come...
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Aritra Paul
- Dec 21, 2021
- 6 min
Spider-Man: No Way Home MOVIE REVIEW: a spectacular end to the Home trilogy
SPOILERS AHEAD, with BOLD WARNINGS ahead of paragraphs you should avoid. When the trailer of Spider-Man: No Way Home premiered on...
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Taheg
- Nov 15, 2021
- 5 min
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings MOVIE REVIEW: surprisingly punches WAY above its league.
Directed by: Destin Daniel Cretton. Written by: Destin Daniel Cretton, Dave Callaham, and Andrew Lanham. Starring: Simu Liu...
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Andrew Carr
- Oct 21, 2021
- 3 min
Venom: Let There Be Carnage MOVIE REVIEW: sadly, it's a mediocre, shallow, anticlimactic rush job
Directed by: Andy Serkis; Starring: Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomi Harris, Stephen Graham. Picking up where the...
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Austin Kemp
- Aug 10, 2021
- 5 min
The Suicide Squad REVIEW: Gunn is on target with a symphony of splattergore
Warning: There may be fringe spoilers ahead, but I will try my best not to reveal too much. Thursday night, I came home from work around...
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Austin Kemp
- Aug 4, 2021
- 4 min
Will the Good Guys Win?: Batman: The Long Halloween Part 2 MOVIE REVIEW
Batman: The Long Halloween Part 2 picks up the story in the latter half of a year plagued by the mystery killer named Holiday. Members of...
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Mack Johnson
- Jul 19, 2021
- 4 min
Epic, exciting "Black Widow" worth both the wait and the Big Screen
Director: Cate Shortland, Starring: Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanov/Black Widow), Florence Pugh (Yelena Belova), Rachel Weisz (Melina...
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Austin Kemp
- Jul 9, 2021
- 4 min
Batman The Long Halloween Pt. 1 REVIEW: Young hero's greatest mystery is masterclass in adaptation
Part One of Chris Palmer’s Batman: The Long Halloween begins with title cards pulled straight from the panels of its source material, in...
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Eric Gahagan
- Apr 9, 2021
- 4 min
"Zack Snyder's Justice League" may be the best DCEU movie to date
The Snyder Cut is essentially an entirely new movie that erases the faults of its predecessor and gives fans the movie they deserved.
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Mack Johnson
- Jan 19, 2021
- 3 min
The New Mutants finally have their own movie, but is a horror/thriller what we really wanted?
The New Mutants have been around since 1982, when Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod created them to capitalize and expand on the massive...
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Mack Johnson
- Jan 8, 2021
- 3 min
Wonder Woman 1984: a long, campy shadow of its original
Wonder Woman 1984 (aka WW84), director Patty Jenkins follow-up to her 2017 blockbuster, is an overly-long, campy shadow of its...
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