Invisible Avenger
Invisible Avenger 1958
Now that I’ve caught up with the MCU movies, I decided that I wanted to watch something a little more random before catching up with either the Sony Marvel movies or the DC movies so I went back to the beginning of my giant, chronological list of superhero and comic book movies and wanted to watch the Missing Lady, but when searching on where to watch it, nothing that came up was a free streamer, so I went down to the next one which was available to watch for free on Tubi, and it was only a 60 minute movie which was a plus. Like many Marvel movies in the 70’s and 80’s, this was actually created as two pilot episodes for a Shadow TV series before editing them together to form a movie. And as far as I can tell, this was produced during a dry spell for Shadow content as the Radio drama ended in 1954, the comic strip in 1949, and the last film was back in 1946. This is notable for including his ability to become a literal shadow as taken from the radio drama which makes this the first Shadow movie to be much closer to a superhero movie. As for the actual content of the film, it feels like a typical low budget noir drama with nothing too complicated in terms of plot and fight scenes that consist of a couple weak punches, there were a couple killings though one was off camera and none of them had any blood.
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US Catman: Lethal Track 1990
Over this past weekend I tried my hand at a twelve hour superhero movie marathon. But not just any superhero movies, I chose some of the worst that I happened to still own having bought them to review right here on this site. While I didn’t quite make it twelve hours, we did manage to watch seven movies going nearly eleven hours. And as luck would have it, the first movie that we watched was this one. This is a movie that I’ve had on my big superhero movie list since nearly the beginning despite still knowing next to nothing about it over ten years later. And yet, when I was browsing some used DVDs and I saw it within the past several months, I just had to pick it up. And technically, it is a superhero movie, or at least 1/3 of it is. The movie cuts back and forth between two completely unrelated story lines. One of them is the Catman story, and I’m guessing that the other is the Lethal Track story. There is zero intersection between the two and the cuts are completely arbitrary. It’s an extremely low budget martial arts film that I’m guessing was filmed in Taiwan or Hong Kong and has a bad English dub that includes a swear word in practically every sentence. But in the context of watching it for a streaming marathon, it was a blast.
Read the rest of this entryThunderbolts*
Thunderbolts* 2025
I have finally finished my MCU catch up by watching Thunderbolts* aka the New Avengers (which is an odd choice they made with their marketing when they do this whole switch up after the movie’s been out a few days and they change the title based on what happens at the very end of the movie, but whatever)(also, it was an odd choice to use the Thunderbolts name that was initially connected to Thunderbolt Ross, AND this movie came right after Brave New World featuring Ross, yet the Thunderbolt name within the movie had zero connection to him, but again whatever). Right off the bat, I feel like this has been one of my favorites from this entire catch up, on par with Guardians volume 3. This is a film that on the surface is about a group of anti-heroes trying to not get permanently shelved, but it’s actually about finding hope through depression and hopelessness mainly through the eyes of Yelena Belova and Bob. The action and humor is also quite fun throughout especially with the overwhelming enthusiasm of the Red Guardian and the general haplessness of Bob throughout most of the movie.
Read the rest of this entryCaptain America: Brave New World
Captain America: Brave New World 2025
After a brief break and a catch up of Falcon and the Winter Soldier I’m ready to get back to my MCU catch-up with the new Captain America. I know I didn’t hear a whole lot of positivity about this movie when it first came out, mainly negative to middling reviews but I thought it was a fun movie that struggled a bit with identity issues. And yet, that in and of itself fits right into the character development of Sam’s Cap. I will also say that it was absolutely the right move for me to watch Falcon and the Winter Soldier before watching this movie. I’m not sure if I would have been a little lost, but the context of that show goes a long way towards understanding where this movie fits into the timeline which still feels a like a weird concept to a certain extent to have a movie be a sequel to a TV series. The show introduces two important characters: Joaquin and Isaiah Bradley and I’m not sure how well they were introduced in this film to someone who hadn’t watched that show. The other interesting connection is how it goes all the way back to the Incredible Hulk movie, bringing back three characters and plot points from that movie.
Read the rest of this entryPrince Valiant
Prince Valiant 1997
I took a slight detour on my MCU catch up when I was asked by my friend Todd over at the Forgotten Filmcast to guest on another episode and his suggestion for a forgotten film to cover was the 1954 Prince Valiant movie as it was based on comic strip. While I initially excluded movies based on comic strips, I later decided to include serialized comic strips that tell a continuous story and still exclude comics that are all essentially stand-alone comedic strips, but I still haven’t fully dug into what that all entails. But Prince Valiant as a comic strip is the longest running continuous story comic strips which started in 1937 and is still running in a half page format today which is over 4,600 comics! Anyway back to the movie, when I actually went to watch the movie I found and watched the 1997 version of Prince Valiant thinking it was the version that he suggested. The day after watching it, I realized my mistake, but I thought the movie was crazy enough to warrant me talking about it so he graciously shifted to allow us to discuss this movie instead of the 1954 version. This movie has an interesting cast with several well known names and character actors, it did go to some bizarre places especially in the second half and it felt like it was trying to be a comedy but lean into it, which if IMDb trivia is to be believed, that’s because the studio took charge of the editing without the director and tried to make it less comedic. I can’t sit here and say that this was a great movie, but it was a lot of fun.
Read the rest of this entryWakanda Forever
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022
I’m honestly a little bit surprised that I have continued my return to writing for this site after having written only 5 reviews in 3 years and now this is my fifth review in just over 1 month. I’m actually quite happy getting back into the rhythm and hope to continue where my aim is to not go more than 2 weeks without a review. Though that may be questionable once I catch up with all the heavy hitters from Marvel and DC. I still have 2 more MCU films to catch up with, a few Sony Marvel films, and many DC films though I imagine I’ll mix in an ultra low budget film here and there though the next 2 will definitely be Brave New World and Thunderbolts*. But getting back to the topic at hand, I’ve finally managed to catch up with Wakanda Forever from back in 2022. At the time I chose to watch and review Black Adam and the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special instead which in hindsight, was likely a mistake. I did enjoy Black Adam more than most, but Wakanda Forever is a much better film overall, with a touching tribute to Chadwick Boseman both at the beginning and the end of the film. It’s also a celebration of culture with almost zero time spent with white American characters, and besides the African culture represented through the Wakandan lens, there’s also the South American Mayan culture influenced in the Talokan underwater race along with a little bit of time spent in Haiti.
Read the rest of this entryGuardians of the Galaxy vol 3
Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3 2023
I’m honestly pretty happy with the way this blog is going again this year. Less than a month into the year and I’m already 4 movies back in the game with 2 more MCU films to go to finish catching up, plus plenty of DC and other movies that have been released along the way. But since I’ve been sticking to my MCU catch up, I figured I’d go with the one that didn’t require any further homework as I’ve seen all the preceding movies that the Guardians have been in, but have not watched Falcon and the Winter Soldier which feels like it should be required viewing to help fill out the gaps for both Brave New World and Thunderbolts*. Whether or not I actually do the homework is yet to be decided. But anyway, I was excited to finally get around to finishing this Guardians trilogy, and with James Gunn having left to head DC, it’s likely the final end for the Guardians as a whole though at least some of the characters may still return. I feel like I saw nothing but warnings about this film if you happen to be an animal lover so I assumed it involved the fate of Rocket’s friends in his flashback scenes, it was still a sad moment but it helped that I was prepared. It did a lot of work to give a sense of finality to these characters and it worked well to flesh out Rocket’s overall journey.
Read the rest of this entryFantastic Four: First Steps
Fantastic Four: First Steps 2025
I will say that it’s been rather nice to get back into watching superhero movies after such a long break. I’ve long railed against the term “Superhero fatigue” and while I do still think that it’s not an actual thing – it’s more an excuse for lesser quality superhero movies to explain their lower than usual box office returns – I do think it did hit me personally after running this site for ten years. But I’ve been enjoying this catch up of the MCU that I’m about halfway through already, at least if I skip the TV series that I’ve missed, and I’m excited to catch up on DC movies as well as go back through and hit some of the lower budget fare that’s come and gone and those that I still hadn’t gotten around to. This latest movie is the most recent MCU film to have been released so I am skipping over a few titles, but I knew that this one was basically a stand alone movie that’s set in a different universe so I figured it wasn’t a big deal to skip ahead. It’s also nice that it wasn’t an origin story, and I dug the retro futuristic 60’s aesthetic. I’m honestly not sure entirely how well this movie was received, but as with the last two MCU catch up movies I rather enjoyed it and it was nice to revisit a Fantastic Four movie. I’m not completely sure that they completely hit the nail on the head of getting the Fantastic Four right on their fourth try (and fifth movie), it was a pretty decent attempt.
Read the rest of this entryEternals
Eternals 2021
I’m not entirely sure if this is going to stick, but my New Year’s resolution for 2026 is to try and watch some more superhero movies and write reviews on this site. I’m currently trying to catch up through the various MCU movies that I have missed over the past few years, as the most recent MCU content that I’ve watched are right here on this site, Quantumania and Deadpool and Wolverine. On the TV side of things I watched just a couple episodes of Secret Invasion and Agatha All Along, nothing specifically against either of those shows, just never got around to watching any more. But anyway, I decided to go back to the earliest MCU movie that I’ve missed which was Eternals. Similar to the Marvels, I hadn’t heard a lot of good things about this movie with many people at the time saying that it was MCU’s first big misstep. Personally, I enjoyed this movie quite a bit and thought it was a different perspective on superheroes. I also didn’t care that it generally stayed out of the way from the rest of the connected universe and just told its own story.
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Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights 