Tag: Belissa Escobedo

Blue Beetle (2023)

Sometimes, it is hard for us to remember what it was like seeing a superhero movie where we knew very little about them going into it.

When this happens, it makes the film more intriguing, such as the original Iron Man (2008) and first Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), films that were massive successes regardless if you knew the source material or not. It also helped that (at the time of release) the characters were not entirely in the first class for their creator’s. In the case of Blue Beetle, the DC character is barely in the third class of characters, but that is not entirely a bad thing.

1 1/2 Stars

Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)

Just under a year ago, I remember a hangout with some of my best friends. We decided to watch a movie in the backyard with the big screen. The movie chosen beforehand was Hocus Pocus, a movie familiar to many 90s children like myself. I had revisited the film at least once before as an adult, and was sadly underwhelmed, for the nostalgia did not hold up. Yet I care for my friends and wanted to have a good time, so I persisted.

As I looked back at Roger Ebert’s review of the original, he said it was “like attending a party you weren’t invited to, and where you don’t know anybody, and they’re all in on a joke but won’t explain it to you.”

Tags 2022, Belissa Escobedo, Bette Milder, Disney, Disney Plus, Doug Jones, Halloween, Hocus Pocus, Hocus Pocus 2, Lilia Buckingham, PG, Rated PG, Sam Richardson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tony Hale, Whitney Peak