The Snarky Cats of Ulthar

Logan (2017) received overwhelmingly positive reviews and many list it as one of the best, if not THE best, of the Fox X-Men movies (which is pretty ironic considering that one of the main criticisms of the original trilogy was that it was too Wolverine-centric). As someone who’s sick and tired of the character, I never bothered to watch it until recently. I’m happy (or in this case, unhappy) to report that it was exactly what I expected. Wolverine’s final adventure is the kind of “serious” comic book movie that people who look down on comic book movies can say they liked. These are the same people who went crazy with Joker (2019), or whose answer to the question “What’s Your Favourite Comic Book Movie?” is “Road to Perdition”. Yes, Road to Perdition (2002) was based on a graphic novel, but those pedantic jerks know that’s not what the question was about. There’s really nothing too comic book-y about Logan . It’s your typical story of a jaded former hero (Wolverine) who’s forced into

The Monk (2011) is the film adaptation of the eponymous 18th Gothic novel by Mathew Lewis. I watched it a couple of years after reading the book, but some differences were still glaringly obvious. Worse, these changes were NOT for the best. Needless to say, there will be SPOILERS for both movie and novel. First things first: adapting The Monk was never going to be easy. While the different storylines are interconnected, the novel contains material for two (maybe even more) stories. The main two are the one following the Capuchin monk Ambrosio’s fall into temptation and disgrace, and the one involving the Bleeding Nun, Agnes and Raymond. The movie adaptation chose Ambrosio, though it kept Agnes’s first appearance as a pregnant nun planning to flee with her lover whose plans are exposed by the monk. She dies in the convent’s dungeons, and her ghost later accuses him of killing her child and being a hypocrite because he also broke his vows of celibacy. The problem with the movie isn’t