The Sane Lunatic

The pageantry known as the American Presidential election has just concluded its latest iteration and the winner is Donald J. Trump, who defeated Kamala Harris the incumbent Vice President. This outcome has caused quite a stir despite its predictability, and the reactions range from humourous to deranged. Image Source As someone who resides outside of the United States of America, my life will be indirectly affected by the chaos caused by the next President of that country. However, I do have some thoughts on what happened, and why, starting with this: Kamala Harris was the worst possible candidate to compete against Donald Trump Image Source The Democrats have been in deep shit for some years now with a poor roster of Presidential candidates. If anything, they are as dumb and blinded by agenda as they accuse those who support Trump. I get that they want to make history by trying to get a woman elected into the Oval Office, but they keep backing the wrong candidate at the wrong time. I...

All good things end, and this movie marks the final curtain of Tom Hardy playing Venom, the iconic anti-hero character from the Spider-Man comic universe. The final instalment of this trilogy is titled "Venom: The Last Dance", and that's pretty much what it is — one last song to end a fun night. Despite the ongoing struggles with interconnecting storylines between different intellectual properties across Sony and Marvel (aka Disney), the Venom saga finds itself infected with the same virus of lazy storywriting with another lame attempt at recreating the kind of synergy achieved in the core Avengers films. As the finale to a rather well-received trilogy that debuted in 2018, this one needed a strong story but all the elements feel discordant. There is little to tie it all together and the only saving grace for the movie is the performance of Tom Hardy as both Eddie Brock and Venom (yes, he delivers the voice of the bombastic symbiote himself which gets punched up for that ...

The Merc with the Mouth is finally back! And he's got his best friend (from the comics) with him, one he's mentioned with thinly veiled envy since the first one premiered in cinemas in 2016. Just like that first one was released on Valentine's Day as a love story,  "Deadpool & Wolverine" arrived just in time for Friendship Day as perhaps a buddy movie of the ages. Ever since the first news dropped about Hugh Jackman reprising the role of Wolverine in a team-up for the next Deadpool movie, the anticipation from fans across bases was tense, and the build-up was worth it as this movie delivers everything needed for the full climax. The third instalment of Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool movies comes on the back of Disney acquiring Fox Studios and thus allowing previously IP-locked characters from the MARVEL comics to finally appear side-by-side, and Ryan aka Wade makes sure the viewers know about that too. There's one keyword that explains the plot - the Marvel c...