The Super Bowl of comic book movies for the DC Comics universe has finally arrived and it's a major bust. Years of laying down the narrative groundwork, establishing the classic comic book characters in their film forms and finding a way to wrap them all together in one big cinematic tamale has led to an event that isn't so special, after all. At the start of Justice League, … [Read more...] about JUSTICE LEAGUE New Movie Review
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Special Bonus Wonder Woman Review
[Editor's note: Because of the importance the new movie Wonder Woman holds for women, we decided to publish a second review of the movie, this time written from the female perspective (you can read MauiTime movie critic Barry Wurst II's original review here).] During the Oscars earlier this year, GE ran an ad that imagined what the world would be like if we treated great … [Read more...] about Special Bonus Wonder Woman Review
How Maui Embraces Its Inner Nerd
The term “nerd” used to be a cruel, judgmental way of dismissing someone who, in spite of their intelligence, had poor social skills. The word was a means of condemning smart kids with unique, blossoming tastes and deeming them fatally un-cool. Now, with Mark Zuckerberg at the helm of Facebook, Steve Jobs’ inventions in seemingly every American home and guys like J.J. Abrams … [Read more...] about How Maui Embraces Its Inner Nerd
BATMAN V SUPERMAN–DAWN OF JUSTICE New Movie Review
The absurd amounts of destruction in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel didn't just anger comic fans but it seems Bruce Wayne is plenty mad as well. In the beginning of Batman v Superman–Dawn of Justice, we're introduced to Ben Affleck as Wayne, older but agile, and filled with rage over Superman's previous exploits. Also wanting Superman dead is the devious Lex Luthor (Jesse … [Read more...] about BATMAN V SUPERMAN–DAWN OF JUSTICE New Movie Review
Busy Superheroes and Deaf Jam and Boring Surgery
‘FAIRLY’ IDIOT-PROOF? Which is more characteristically American–that a Texas company could invent an ordinary rifle that mimics a machine gun or that America’s incomparable legal minds could find a loophole in existing anti-machine-gun laws to permit it to be manufactured and sold? The Slide Fire company’s weapon can spray bullets “like a fire hose” from a legal, semi-automatic … [Read more...] about Busy Superheroes and Deaf Jam and Boring Surgery