The Olive Opinion

  Everybody has a lot of opinions about the current state of Marvel Studios' projects, in terms of their content volume and the quality of the writing. I have probably mentioned superhero fatigue on this blog before and how, over the years, I haven't felt it personally as much as most people do, but I have always been an advocate for something different. Wonder Man fulfills that need within the superhero genre by blending into subgenres, much like WandaVision did.  Marvel is learning its lesson not to always go big with Wonder Man , specifically by following a grounded story of Simon Williams, an aspiring actor who happens to run into MCU fan favorite Trevor Slattery to audition for a superhero role. Do remember that this is still an MCU show, so expect meta references about superheroes and the often felt fatigue around that topic, presented in a way that applies to a world where enhanced beings exist and how that affects the entertainment world.  However, the ...

  The number of movies I was catching up on this month is crazy, but luckily I got the chance to see an advance screening of a pretty anticipated horror title by the great Sam Raimi. Send Help centers around an underestimated accountant who is marooned on an island with her new, young, frat-boy of a boss.  With a horror twist, it reads more like a story about a woman coming into her own, trying to prove her worth to her boss, especially after being promised the executive job. But this only lasts for the first 10 minutes. And then it gets pretty gnarly when the plane crashes. Despite being an R-rated movie, we were leaning into Raimi's horror, which we are very much used to. There wasn't really much he was dealing with that was anything new or interesting, compared to his previous work in horror.  There were tones that strayed from the film's main genre, which confused me. Especially after they are marooned, both Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien's characters are ins...