Clayface is an incredibly entertaining movie! The origin story for Matt Hagen is compelling and seeing his slow descent into villainy is a fun watch. The body horror is excellent and visceral while the revenge plotline is relatively satisfying. The movie does have a very weak romance, love triangle plotline that is a bit of a drag. The film does also feel a bit too long for the story being told with many moments of slow pacing. It could really have been cut down by 10-15 minutes. Still, this is a bold movie from DC Studios and a surprisingly solid entry in the oversaturated ‘Superhero’ genre. I’m excited for what DC studios does next!
Cyberpunk Edgerunners Season 2 is a captivating series with a fun cast of characters, great music, stylistic animation and an engaging plot. There is definitely a common theme for the story and it is clearly obsession. Whether it is obsession with revenge, cyberware, purpose, science, power or simply movies. We see what this does to the characters in Night City and it leads to an highly entertaining series. However, it never ever reaches the high of season 1. There are multiple reasons for this: It juggles multiple protagonist and subplots instead of being focused on mostly one protagonist like the previous season. Every character has their own different story that is very isolated from everyone elses. All the stories are still compelling but it is overwhelming and very unfocused. This leads to the second issue where none of the protagonists ever interact with each other apart from the kid Roman. Season 1 had an enjoyable group dynamic with David, Lucy, Maine and Rebecca who all ...