The Olive Opinion

It took me a month to finally be able to watch Thor Love and Thunder. After weeks of anticipating and avoiding spoilers, the Marvel redux has finally ended on my side. With that aside, Taika Waititi returns to helm the follow-up to his work Ragnarok and gives Thor a chance to widen his world beyond three movies, a luxury most standalone characters do not have within the franchise.  Marvel continues on with themes they have been exploring since the introduction of Phase 4 and it is once again, explicitly shown in this sequel. Adapting two of Jason Aaron's well-known run of comics, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has to save the pantheon of Gods from the God Butcher who vows to kill them all with the help of Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi), and his ex-girlfriend, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) who currently wields Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor.  Despite its short runtime, Love and Thunder provide a more mythology-based storyline that no other Thor film has ever had the guts t...

Has anyone not given up on the Predator franchise at this point? As someone who grew up with the Alien vs Predator movies, I only ever rooted for the ever-populating Xenomorphs as opposed to the Yautja. I was only introduced to their respective franchises in high school and they could not be more different but that's a story for another article hopefully. However, the Predator franchise has only gone downhill with audiences who still find the Arnold Schwarzenegger-led original film superior. Unfortunately, I didn't feel the same way after only recently watching it. (Yes, boomers. Come at me). With Prey, I think it's time we reconsidered the ranking.  Originally called Skull and was never given the impression that this was a part of the franchise, Prey is a very different Predator movie. It is a prequel to the previous 4 films... and yes, ALL of those films are still canon. Like its predecessors, the Predator is the villain and a human must face it, once again letting us pon...

Based on the Image comic book series, Paper Girls has been conceived as as Amazon's answer to Netflix's hit series Stranger Things but the show is anything but. To be fair, Stranger Things, in any season, involves an ensemble of characters, a maniacal doctor's attempt at superhumans, and/or another dimension with monsters. Paper Girls, on the other hand, deals with sci-fi and time travel. Or is it? So put your comparisons to rest. Audiences who had not heard of this show before today should know that the show revolves around 4 12-year-old girls in 1988 from a small town called Stony Stream who accidentally stumble upon the future, more accurately, 2019. To find their way back, the girls go through an eye-opening journey that leads them to several different timelines, meeting their future selves in the process while The Old Watch, a time organization keeping the timelines intact, are hunting them down to set the timeline back to its original form.  Yes, the premises sounds f...