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by Daniel Andrade Courtesy of Paramount Pictures When I was growing up, I didn’t have my own video game console. I used to have to go over to friends’ or cousins’ houses and play games with them. I’ll never forget the first time I played on a Sega Genesis. There were two games that I was obsessed with: Echo the Dolphin and Sonic the Hedgehog. To this day I still haven’t beaten the original Sonic game (those water levels and that terrifying alarm sound of Sonic losing air and eventually drowning still haunt me to this day), but regardless, Sonic has remained one of my all-time favorite video games and video game characters. So when I heard that they were going to make a Sonic movie and that one of my favorite actors was going to star in it as the notorious Dr. Robotnik ( Jim Carrey ), I was absolutely thrilled and couldn’t wait to see how they would capture the charming attitude of Sonic and his blazing speed on the big screen. And then the first teaser poster came out… Thoug...

by Daniel Andrade Courtesy of Blumhouse Productions Fantasy Island was a show that originally debuted in the late ‘70s and ran for 7 seasons (and was briefly revived for one season in 1998), and it was one of the pivotal examples of the saying “Be careful what you wish for.” In all iterations of the show, guests to the mystical island were granted one of their fantasies, but it often came at a price, and always had to be seen through to its conclusion. This basic premise remains intact for the latest version of this story, a feature-length film from the horror/thriller juggernauts at Blumhouse. I am a huge fan of horror films in general and have a great respect for Blumhouse, which has given us some of my favorite contemporary horror films such as Happy Death Day , Get Out , Insidious , Unfriended , and Paranormal Activity . So suffice to say, I walked into the theater with decent expectations. Overall, the film didn’t quite live up to them, but it also definitely wasn’t as ho...

by Daniel Andrade Courtesy of DC Films Four years ago, DC wanted to try something different for their Extended Universe and show viewers a funnier, more light-hearted side of their vast catalog, the villain-centric Suicide Squad . The trailers showed a colorful, bombastic, insane look into the lives of some of Gotham’s notably odd nemeses. While the movie didn’t perform as well as anticipated, one of the better things to come out of it was Margot Robbie’s ( Bombshell , The Wolf of Wall Street ) interpretation of fan-favorite character Harley Quinn. Halloween parties and Comic-Cons around the nation became flooded by Harley impersonators, breathing new life into the iconic character and pretty much guaranteeing that we would see Robbie take on the role again in the near future. So when a Harley Quinn-led Birds of Prey was announced as a spiritual sequel to Suicide Squad , many were excited to see if the popular character could carry the film on her own. After my viewing of the ...