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Review - "DUNE: PART TWO" (2024)

The blockbuster sci-fi action franchise for audiences who think they’re too good for blockbuster sci-fi action franchises worms its way back into theaters with a faster-paced, tighter-focused sequel as Paul Atreides' maybe-reluctant/maybe-false prophet makes guerilla war against his enemies while Space Nun Mom schemes with a psychic fetus in her B-story (which is both MORE compelling but less "interesting" than it sounds) to help him pull it off. Because let's face it: If you're casting a h...

Review: "HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS" (2024)

A luckless applejack must survive by his wits (or lack thereof) in the harsh North American wilderness; battling starvation, the elements, beasts of the forest and the obstacles to True Love... all while contending with the mysterious machinations undertaken by an army of - yes - HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS with plans bigger than he can possibly comprehend. Director Mike Cheslik fuses silent-movie slapstick, video-game logic, Looney Tunes mayhem, surreal epic fantasy into an endlessly-inventive, one ...

Review - ARGYLLE (2024)

Matthew Vaughn gets back into the just-for-fun spy game with Bryce Dallas Howard as an espionage novelist hunted by rival real-life spy agencies who believe her books have inadvertently (or not?) predicted the movements of their real-life operatives and want to exploit the insights she may or may not actually have in a convoluted action/comedy romp that's a lot of fun... once it gets to the point that takes a bit too long to arrive.

New Big Picture - "NO, BRO: A STAR WARS THEORY"

SPECIAL DOUBLE-LENGTH EPISODE! 😁👍 Last year, just before our channel's annual October festivities kicked off; I put some "STAR WARS"-related content already recorded (and partly-edited) concerning "AHSOKA" and a lightsaber nontroversy on strategic hold on a hunch that there'd be more to talk about from that particular property later... well, I was right 🤷‍♂️ Over the course of a few months, the gnarliest corners of sci-fi's most contentious fandoms exploded with controversies o...

SCHLOCKTOBER: "INGAGI" - New Episode-Only Version

Episode-only cut of the "INGAGI" video from earlier this month, sans the "announcement video" bookends and getting right to the point.

Review - "REBEL MOON - PART I: A CHILD OF FIRE" (2023)

Zack Snyder's retools his would've-been "STAR WARS" movie into... basically a Mountain Dew-flavored, early-2000s XBox-tinged riff on "STAR WARS" for Netflix to throw against the wall and see if it sticks. Not a bad idea on paper, but in practice the end result is a shockingly dull and portentous affair - all setup with very little in the way of punchline as Snyder chops his "SEVEN SAMURAI" homage in two; saving the main action apparently for the sequel and leaving this one as little more than...

New Big Picture - SCHLOCKCEMBER: "INGAGI" (1930)

After a LONG set of technical and financial setbacks, here is the delayed last upload from this season of "SCHLOCKTOBER" - but just as importantly: The reveal of what the season was originally meant to be building to and a big announcement (good news!) about the future of the channel and fun new things ahead.

"INGAGI" - Is it a "lost movie?" The origin of "found footage horror?" The 'true' inspiration for "KING KONG?" Was it 'disappeared' for decades because it was shockingly racist - a...

Review: GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023)

Japan's top director of historical melodrama and high-end CG animation puts his gifts to work on The King of The Monsters for the first full-blown remake of Toho's "GODZILLA" in original post-WWII horrors-of-postwar trauma mode; resulting in an all-timer shocker disaster/survival epic that's not simply among the best films in its franchise or genre but the best films of 2023. A stunning achievement that arrives as the blockbuster you never expected to leave you in awe.

Review - "FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S" (2023)

Blumhouse turns the indie-game phenomenon into a haunted-arcade thriller that's heavy on style, low on coherency but probably better than it had any right being under the circumstances - which isn't the same thing as being "good" but bound to be memorable as what's aiming to be a generation's first 'real' scary movie.

Review - "THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES" (2023)

The franchise that opened and closed the YA Dystopian fad of a decade ago takes a swing at a re-start with a prequel that reveals doomed romance and political chicanery in the backstory of the original series' main antagonist. A sci-fi prequel about how the villain started out as a moody handsome sadboy twisted by outside forces and heartbreak? Hope he doesn't have strong opinions about sand...

Review: "THE MARVELS" (2023)

No, you DON'T in fact need to have watched a bunch of Disney streaming content (or even really the previous 'CAPTAIN MARVEL' movie) to watch Marvel's breezy gals-being-spacepals sci-fi adventure; but  do you need to watch 'THE MARVELS' itself? Bob says "Sure!," providing Marvel's time-tested "Good time get-to-know-the-new-mascots quippy hang-out banter first, second, third and stakes/antagonists distant fourth" formula hasn't worn out on you just yet and a quick 100 minutes of breezy, di...

New Big Picture - SCHLOCKTOBER 2023: "THE CAT" (1992)

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Alternately known as "Lao Mao," "The 1000 Years Cat," "The Old Cat" or "Wisely's Old Cat;" this 1992 Hong Kong horror/scifi/mystery/action hybrid from the director of "THE STORY OF RICKY" based on the novel by Ni Kuang mashes up everything from "The Cat From Outer Space" to "The Thing," "Body Snatchers" and a bit of "Terminator" into a bizarre alien invasion saga that's (eventually...) about thwarting an attack by parasitic space-fungus but M...

SCHLOCKTOBER 2023 - "CANNIBAL WOMEN IN THE AVOCADO JUNGLE OF DEATH"

Before Bill Maher was an angry old man having a 'Senior Moment' over too much feminism in the "BARBIE" movie; he was appearing in a late-80s horror/adventure spoof with a shocking amount of that same Kenergy. Maybe you've heard of this one - a 'cult classic' actually starring Shannon Tweed and featuring Adrienne Barbeau - but did you know what was actually "up" with "CANNIBAL WOMEN IN THE AVOCADO JUNGLE OF DEATH?"

Review - "LOKI: SEASON 2"

Spoiler-Free (i.e. no significant story points, "twists," or details that have not been noted by the trailers, advertisements or general reporting) thoughts on the first four episodes of SEASON 2 of Marvel Studios "LOKI;" streaming starting October 6th via Disney Plus

SCHLOCKTOBER 2023 - "MURDER BY PHONE

Schlocktober 2023 BEGINS!  Richard Chamberlain scours the seedy corporate underworld of 1980s Toronto on the hunt for a serial killer who has invented a way to blow people up via telephone - a crime almost as absurd as how easy it turns out to be to solve it. Come for the still-safer-than-a-Tesla exploding dial-up, stay for the wildly overqualified level of talent in front of and behind the camera gobbling up Canadian Tax write-off dollars to turn it into a movie you won't believe you've...

New Big Picture - YOU FLIRTY RAT

TMNT: MUTANT MAYHEM delivered one of Summer 2023's best surprises... and also one of it's stupidest controversies. What fake thing did The Internet get mad about this time?

Review - A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023)

Kenneth Branagh returns for a third outing as Agatha Christie's master detective Hercule Poirot in a timed-for-Halloween haunted house themed thriller that cleverly pits the famous rationalist against a threat that at least wants to APPEAR supernatural in origin: Summoned to a supposedly haunted Venetian Palazzo to debunk a supposedly psychic medium (Michelle Yeoh); Poirot instead finds himself with a series of fresh murders to solve and possibly also that of the "ghost" that was meant to be ...

Review - BLUE BEETLE

Is it the last DCEU movie? The first DCU movie? What really matters is that audiences should be giving "BLUE BEETLE" the chance that its studio isn't.

New Big Picture: "BARBENHEIMER" - Or 'How I Learned to Stop Being Wrong About What Is Or Isn't A Bomb'

No, YOU'RE nearly a month late to commenting on the biggest blockbuster movie meme of the Summer! 😛 

In which an episode where the topic at hand... sort of got away from us as the news turned into a moving target EVENTUALLY finds its center (I hope?) in box-office liquidity, bad-faith criticism stupidity and me learning that there are worse things than being annoyed at harmless memes.  

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Retro-Review: "THE COMPLETE TWILIGHT SAGA"

Retro-Review compilation featuring Bob Chipman's original "MovieBob" video reviews of "TWILIGHT," "NEW MOON," "ECLIPSE" and "BREAKING DAWN: PART 1" - plus recovered-audio and new for the original review of "BREAKING DAWN: PART 2" and present-day reflection/commentary for the entire saga spanning 2008-2012

New Big Picture: "DID I PREDICT THE MCU FANTASTIC 4 ...7 YEARS AGO!?"

New(?) rumors say that the Marvel Cinematic Universe "FANTASTIC FOUR" movie - whenever it finally comes out - will put a time-bending twist on the franchise totally new for the characters and that the MCU itself hasn't seen since "CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER" ...and some sharp-eyed fans of the channel think they remember hearing ME predict this same big twist all the way back in 2017! Did I? And if I did, what else did I have to say - and would ANY of it hold up after so much else has ...

Review - "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM

TMNT returns in a gorgeously-animated reboot that owes more than a little to "ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE's" genre-rewiring aesthetics and hip-hop edge but brings a wild vibe all its own to the proceedings; marrying blacklight-neon sci-fi grit with the gloppy-goop gross-out playfulness of the nostalgic 90s action figures and main characters who act and feel more like authentic teenagers (which is to say a little of them goes a long way - so smart move loading up the supporting cast with additional...

New Big Picture - FLASHBACKWARD: PART II

Fairly or not, "THE FLASH" is at last the movie that gets to bomb for the sins of the decade-long disaster that was the rest of the DC Extended Universe - a run of bad decisions and worse movies that you'd think even I would have run out of ways to look at. But while it's not even close to the worst crime Warner Bros has managed to commit against their own intellectual property, "THE FLASH actually managed to be bad in a wholly unexpected way: Taking the most tired trend of the moment (flexin...

Review - "BARBIE" (2023)

"Barbie" directed by Greta Gerwig (2023)

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New Big Picture: "FLASHBACKWARD - PART I"

Fairly or not, "THE FLASH" is at last the movie that gets to bomb for the sins of the decade-long disaster that was the rest of the DC Extended Universe - a run of bad decisions and worse movies that you'd think even I would have run out of ways to look at. But while it's not even close to the worst crime Warner Bros has managed to commit against their own intellectual property, "THE FLASH actually managed to be bad in a wholly unexpected way: Taking the most tired trend of the moment (flexin...

Review - THE FLASH (2023)

After a decade-plus of development hell, dozens of directors, writers, scripts, retoolings, a global Pandemic and a lead-actor's INTERNATIONAL CRIME SPREE; the most interesting thing that can maybe be said about "THE FLASH" is that - after all that - it somehow manages to wriggle out from under its hefty but compelling extra baggage to stand up on its own as… actually just a completely average, unremarkable superhero movie.

MARTHABOX - Part IV: KING DUMB COME

And now it is complete - watch the complete playlist HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQeoXYCsLPY&list=PL1WoYVvJ35Xr3iuCADRH6X1CyqihXPOiJ&index=2

Review - "SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE" (2023)

Miles Morales - aka Spider-Man - once again encounters a multiversal threat that brings him into contact with an even wider array of fellow Spider-Person incarnations from across infinite realities... but this time there's a bigger mystery at hand and not everyone may be on his side as the sequel to the game-changing "INTO THE SPIDERVERSE" blasts its whole concept wide open for a much bigger, much more challenging story that sets up even more  new adventures to come. Thrilling stuff that...

MARTHABOX - The Pointless Life & Meaningless Death of The DC Extended Universe

PART 1 of 4 - "MEN OF STALL"

With the DC Extended Universe (aka "The DCEU," aka "The SnyderVerse") about to be put out of its misery by the continuum-reboot shennanigans of "THE FLASH;" I begin my look back through (almost!) every review, video essay, etc I published on the subject in chronological order from the release of "MAN OF STEEL" in 2013 to the total collapse of Warner Bros as a studio in the ongoing present. It's The story of Hollywood and the art of mainstream moviemaking at ...

NEW BIG PICTURE - "WOKE, BROKE OR JOKE: The Internet Is Stupid About The Mario Movie"

In which I struggle - almost certainly in vain - against The Internet (and YouTube in particular) as the loudest and the stupidest among us attempt to ruin "THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE" for me. Do I succeed? You'll have to watch and find out 👍