Shawn S. Lealos 
The Masters of the Universe remake didn’t have many high expectations, but in today’s society, that doesn’t seem to matter. When fans have attached themselves to something, or even worse, fans hold a distaste for big franchise properties, they often go into a movie ready to tear it down without ever giving it a chance. … Read more
The Mandalorian & Grogu was the first Star Wars movie to hit theaters since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and it is the first movie to be based on a streaming series. The good news is that the movie is miles better than The Rise of Skywalker, and no one has to have seen … Read more
What are the Stephen King Dollar Baby films? My name is Shawn S. Lealos, and in 2015, I released my book, Dollar Deal: The Story of the Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers (BUY MY BOOK HERE), and went on to host a pair of Dollar Baby Film Festivals (one in Houston and one in Seattle). During the … Read more
With Captain America: Brave New World, the MCU teased the possibility of a future Avengers team with Sam Wilson’s Captain America in charge. But it looks like another team beat him to it, when some of the misfit antiheroes and former villains of the MCU joined forces to form the Thunderbolts (written onscreen as Thunderbolts*). … Read more
It is kind of strange how you can be just moving through life and then something happens that just completely throws everything out of whack, changes everything in one instant, and makes you reevaluate everything – and I mean everything – in your life. That happened in my life on May 15, 2016. On May … Read more
Thor: Ragnarok might be the strangest Marvel movie in their entire MCU. It feels like Guardians of the Galaxy, except it is even stranger and really does a lot to elevate the character of Thor – someone who, before this, was one of the least interesting characters in the entire MCU. If there was one complaint about … Read more