The Apple Worm

Do you remember the power of your imagination? Being a kid able to create an entire universe inside of a box? Idolizing Superman and Batman while pretending to be Spiderman? It does not matter what your answer is, because in a world filled with comic book and superhero movie entertainment as great as we have today there HAS to be a differentiating factor between another DC movie and a GREAT DC movie. Especially when you take into account horrible mishaps like Suicide Squad, or amazing, successful accomplishments like Wonder Woman. What a wonderful, funny, entertaining and heartwarming movie Shazam is! Please go watch this movie with your family, significant others, friends and anyone who needs and/or likes to have a smile on their face throughout and after watching a movie. Please think about your childhood before going in to watch it. Think about the happiness of playing yourself tired on a bike, with a toy, or just a cape with which you imagined you could actually fly a...

Jordan Peele went from one spectrum of entertainment to the other: from comedy to horror/thriller movies. He decided to surprise the world with an “instant classic” called “Get Out” that was universally loved and made the expectations for all other movies by him to have a crazy high bar of quality and thematic complexity. So, I went to watch his next movie called “Us” with that public criticism in mind and personally trying to see it from a neutral point of view. I loved this movie for a completely different reason than why I loved “Get Out”. I believe they close to equal in quality even when they are nothing alike, if I HAD to choose one over the other I would choose “Get Out” but that means nothing against “Us”. And here are the reasons why this movie was amazing and why you should watch it with an open mind: Acting from a whole other level! Lupita Nyong’o, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Winston Duke and Evan Alex act like you have not seen in a loooong time (in that order from m...