Category: reviews
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DeaconsDen Reaction – Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Honesty. If I were to give a one word summary of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, it would be honesty. The film that was released in theaters in 2017 is a compromised work that is quite patronizing and begging the audience to love what it’s doing after the reactions to Snyder’s Man of Steel and Batman […]
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DeaconsDen Reaction – Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods
Da 5 Bloods will certainly be considered as a timely release, however there’s always a time for this type of story to be told. While there are films on the Vietnam war, very few speak on the black perspective. Spike Lee has crafted a compelling human drama and mixing it with a second half that […]
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DeaconsDen Reaction – Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
I did not expect the shared universe of DC Animated films to come to a conclusion this year. I spent some time revisiting every film in this continuity. Now we’ve reached the end. Apokolips War follows the surviving superheroes in the wake of a failed assault led by on the tyrant Darksied. We get the […]
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The Invisible Man – DeaconsDen Reaction
A contemporary adaptation of the classic story by H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man is brought into 2020 with a modern sensibility that makes this an early contender for best horror film of 2020. Horror veteran Leigh Whannell writes and directs a film that from the very first frame, oozes suspense. Elizabeth Moss stars as Cecilia […]
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) – DeaconsDen Reaction
2016’s Suicide Squad, (also reviewed here on DeaconsDen) introduced movie watchers to the cinematic Harley Quinn. No matter your feelings on that film, one thing that was positively mentioned was Margot Robbie’s portrayal of the former Arkham Asylum psychiatrist who is manipulated to criminal activity by The Joker. Now Harley is on her own in […]
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Bad Boys For Life – DeaconsDen Reaction
2020 kicks off here at DeaconsDen with a reunion of old friends. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as the hilarious combo of Miami PD detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett. Bad Boys For Life is the 3rd entry in the action-comedy series that began in 1995 with Bad Boys and continued in 2003 with […]
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Joker – DeaconsDen Reaction
JOKER as a film manages to capture the essence of The Joker as a character. Anchored by an amazing performance by Joaquin Phoenix, JOKER is a look into a man’s descent to darkness. Phoenix is Arthur Fleck, a man with issues who lives with and takes care of his sick mother Penny. Arthur works as […]
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Rambo: Last Blood – DeaconsDen Reaction
Sylvester Stallone returns to screen as Vietnam veteran John Rambo in the fifth installment of the Rambo series of action films that began in 1982 with the thriller FIRST BLOOD. This is the first film in the franchise since 2008’s RAMBO which was directed by Stallone. This go around, he is directed by Adrian Grunberg […]
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“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” A DeaconsDen Reaction
Director Quentin Tarantino has entertained audiences as well as polarized them since bursting onto the scene with Reservoir Dogs in 1992. His work has mixed and matched a range of genres that show the man’s love for movies and movie history. So how does he fare when he jumps in a time machine and recreate […]
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