I really did not know what to expect from this movie, I'd seen the trailers and like most people I was pretty fixated on why a 2nd American Civil war was happening. The western forces of California and Texas? The Florida Alliance? A third term president of the loyalist states. Some pretty interesting choices for factions of a 2nd American Civil War and if you were thinking would dive much into this you would be wrong. Civil War is fundamentally about a civil war occurring in the modern USA, journalism specifically war journalism and the people on the ground. We follow a group of journalists as they make their way to DC. Our lead is Kirsten Dunst as Lee a war photographer, followed by Wagner Moura as Joel her college, Stephen McKinley Henderson as Sammy as their old mentor and Cailee Spaeny as Jessie as an aspiring photographer who tags along. Kirsten Dunst is quite the battle hardened pro while Cailee Spaeny's Jessie is the extremely green newcomer and a good part of the movie is Jessie learning the ropes.

It's been quite a while since the YA craze and the last Hunger Games movie but here we are 2023 and a new movie, a prequel, the origin story of the main villain. The Hunger Games series were some of the better movies to come out of the YA craze, the quality was a bit un even especially at the end with Mockingjay being split into 2 part but overall solid movies.

A Haunting in Venice is Third movie is Kenneth Branagh's Poirot movie series, coming just a year after Death on the Nile though I think that movie got caught up in the Fox acquisition and the pandemic. Personally I thought Murder on the Orient Express was decent, Death on the Nile not so much, serviceable but not great for this third I did not have high hopes. Anyway turns out this movie is pretty good and is the best one out of the three.

Only five for this one, hopefully I can get to a few more shows next year.

Thor 4, who would have thought for all the MCU characters to get a fourth movie it would be Thor but after Ragnarok here we are and while it can't quite reach those highs its still pretty good despite some issues. Thor Love and Thunder picks up sometime after Endgame, Thor and Korg are hanging with the Guardians of the Galaxy, he has shed is Endgame bod and is going through a bit of mid-life crisis or as much as a midlife crisis you can have as a several hundred year old god. Back on earth Valkyrie leads Asgard as its king and Asgard is now a tourist attraction. We also see Natalie Portman's Jane Foster return diagnosed with stage 4 cancer she's is looking for a way to buy time/beat the cancer but things are not looking great. We are also introduced to our villain Gorr though for someone called the God Butcher we don’t see him kill a ton of Gods in this movie. As things move a long and we get eventually introduced to Natalie Portman's Mighty Thor, we see Gorr attack Asgard and we eventually have our main crew of Thor, Jane Foster, Valkyrie and Korg on a quest to defeat Gorr.

Everything everywhere all at once is a sci-fi action film from the Daniels and it's probably the best multiverse movie so far just as multiverse movies have started to become a thing. EEAO centers on a Chinese American woman Evelyn wang played by Michelle Yeoh who runs a laundromat with her husband. The laundromat is being audited, her father has just arrived from China, her husband is looking to get a divorce and he daughter is gay and trying to get the family to accept he girlfriend. So yeah there is a lot going on, its not the best situation and in the midst of this is visited by another version of her husband who drags her into a multiversal conflict…

Its good but there are better Batman movies out there.