Tag: Olivia Colman

REVIEW: Wonka (2023)

Wonka is a rebootquel of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and, to a lesser extent, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I like the Gene Wilder-led classic well enough, but I don’t think I ever watched the Tim Burton movie all the way through. When Wonka was announced, I was frankly an...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion: Season 1, Episode 6, “Home”

“Home” is the kind of finale I probably should have expected from Secret Invasion. Like seemingly all of the Marvel Disney+ shows, it started with a lot of promise and devolved into a grating screed on left-wing politics that got bogged down in a mess of plots and subplots and diminished a great...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 5, “Harvest”

“Harvest” is the point in a story where you kind of just want it to end. I enjoyed most of Secret Invasion in the beginning, but this episode makes it clear that the setup is not going to have a satisfying payoff. There are too many story strands to tie up in a week, too …

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REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 3, “Betrayed”

“Betrayed” is the episode that comes in seemingly every Disney+ Marvel show: the turn. It’s where something that was either enjoyable or looked like it might be great reveals itself for the undercooked, politically skewed, poorly plotted, character-destroying pablum it really is. And, as alway...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 2, “Promises”

With its second episode, “Promises,” Secret Invasion gets even more intriguing, wrapping itself comfortably in the espionage tropes it introduced last week and introducing shades of gray for all the main characters. There’s a subtlety to this show that other Marvel productions don’t have, es...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 1, “Resurrection”

Remember when we used to expect Marvel movies to be good? It wasn’t all that long ago, but it feels like a lifetime since we entered a theater or, almost as often these days, started a new TV show without trepidation and with the anticipation of a fun story with characters we either knew we &helli...