It’s hard out here for a Tinsel Town A-Lister. Consider Ben Affleck, once a Miramax Golden Boy, leading man, Oscar-winning writer, and a lauded director of a Best Picture winner, no less. If you believe everything you read, you’d be convinced that Ben’s been having a tough time of late, the last 5 years being particularly troublesome. The struggle is apparently so real that The Way Back is being pegged as his own personal redemption story, his resurgence, his…way back,…

A project tailor-made for mini-budget powerhouse producer Jason Blum, no doubt delighting in the fact that the most accurate depiction of the titular character is one that requires the sum total of literally no capital investment whatsoever. For a good portion of the film, Leigh Whannell leans into this fiscally prudent approach, the opposite path to the many effects-heavy predecessors that saw fit to provide early evidence of an otherwise imperceptible presence - hats, bandages, glasses, hell, even entire nervous…

If Infinity War was, as @kernetcetera so eloquently described, ‘television’, then Endgame is the TV finale, the send-off show, the goodbye episode that wraps it all up with a nice little bow and gives the fans an opportunity to pay their respects to characters that had been a part of their lives for so many seasons. On that note, it’s certainly not the type of film that was made for someone like me, and I was a fool for thinking…