RageLite review - Ant-man and the Wasp

Ant-man was one of Marvel’s more modest hits when it was released back in 2015, making around $520m on around $120m budget. A sequel was ultimately inevitable and Marvel did increase the budget for it, putting it around $190m. Peyton Reed is back directing but we have an all knew writing team including Chris McKenna, who wrote the Lego Batman movie and Spider-man: Homecoming, Erik Summers, who also worked on Homecoming and the previously reviewed Jumanji sequel, Andrew Barrer, who’s last work was on the 2014 film Haunt, Gabriel Ferrari, who was producer of Haunt, and Paul Rudd himself, who had helped write the screenplay for the original Ant-man.

The film had the blessing/curse of being released between Infinity War and Endgame, anticipation was high, and turnout was OK, it made around $620m, again a modest success for Marvel. Critically it did well, an 88% Rotten Tomatoes rating but with an average of only 6.97/10, Audiences gave it a 76% rating with an average 3.76/5. How did I find it? Let’s take a look

Guilty Pleasures #33 - Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio

I know someone out there, somewhere is thinking I bash on Moffat too much and should probably review a Russel T Davies episode, there are many flawed episodes to look over from his era. But Moffat is clearly a talented writer with potential, and I hate to see this potential squandered time and time again. So, if you want someone to bash on Russel episodes, go watch Diamanda Hagan, in the meantime let’s take a look at the latest Doctor Who Christmas special.

OK, you know what you’re in for with a title like that. A fun superhero romp is how Peter Capaldi described it and I’m not against a lighter toned Christmas special, it is Christmas and if you want depressing, you can always watch the soaps. My problem is 'superhero'. Doctor Who has mixed with superheroes in the past but we now live in an era where superhero films make the big bucks, last year 6 DC or Marvel superhero movies came out and there’s no sign of the pace slowing up. There are TV shows dedicated to superheroes that are growing in popularity to the extent that they're expanding on an almost yearly basis.

What I’m saying here is that this isn’t the show trying something different, it’s the show cashing in on a popular trend, and it would have to pull out all the stops to convince me otherwise. So, does it? Let’s see

TV Month: Star Wars Rebels Episodes 8-9 review: Empire Day/Gathering forces

In the penultimate instalment of TV Month

We take a look at the motley crew of the Ghost once again, as we have the first 2-parter of the series