Review: "SilverScreen Blog" Calls "WHALEFALL" An Enthralling, Poignant Adventure

"SilverScreen Blog" is a WordPress blog where you, dear readers, will frequently find reviews of the latest movie reviews. Here is a recent review:

WHALEFALL (2026)

"Austin Abrams is having a whale of a time. Between the smash hit that was Resident Evil and his latest film Whalefall, he’s proving himself to be quite the actor. Both projects involve him being the only character onscreen for the majority of the runtime so he skillfully does the heavy lifting in each.

After the death of his dad Mitt (played by Josh Brolin), Jay (Abrams) comes home from college. The two had a complex relationship. Mitt was stern, tattooed, macho; someone who was in his element when out on the water. Jay is a scrawny young fellow, keen to be everything his dad isn’t. He has “soft lungs” according to Mitt, who chides his son’s lack of real world readiness":

Continue reading at SilverScreen Blog.

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Negromancer News Bits and Bites from October 11th to 17th, 2026 - UPDATE #11

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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NEWS:

SCANDAL - From Deadline: Almost a year ago, television director and Emmy-winning actor, Timothy Busfield, was charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor and child abuse.  The charges stemmed from alleged incidents involving two minor boys on the New Mexico set of the Fox/Warner Bros TV series, "The Cleaning Lady," for which Busfield directed six episodes.  Now, the case against him has dismissed by the presiding judge who ruled that "the prosecuting attorney failed to act in a fair and impartial manner." The Bernalillo County District Attorney's office in New Mexico still has the option to “institute new criminal proceedings” against Busfield.

MOVIES - From Variety:  Universal's has officially titled "The Mummy 4" as "The Mummy: The Book of the Dead."  The film is due Oct. 15, 2027.  Oscar-winners, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, are reprising their roles as Rick and Evie O’Connell.  The cast also includes John Hannah, Michael Johnston, Numan Acar, Kevin J. O’Connor and Oded Fehr. 

DC STUDIOS - From Deadline:  Oscar-winning director, Steven Soderbergh, will step in to finish principal photography for the final weeks of filming of "The Batman II."  The film's director, Matt Reeves, has had to leave the production because of a family issue.

HULU - From TheGrio:  Ryan Coogler’s “The X-Files” reboot has received a series order from Hulu, bringing the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s reimagining of the iconic science-fiction franchise closer to the screen. The series will star Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel as two FBI agents assigned to a division investigating unexplained phenomena.  The duo will play original character, and they will NOT be playing new versions of Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny).

MOVIES - From THR:  Emmy-winning actress Zendaya is set to star in acclaimed director Alex Garland's next sci-fi film for studio, A24.  The film is untitled and is expected to begin shooting in 2027.

NETFLIX - From Variety:  Netflix is laying off six percent of its workforce, which amounts to about 1000 employees. That is Netflix's largest layoff to date.

From Deadline:  Netflix has secured exclusive rights for all 104 FIFA World Cup 2030 matches in Spain and Andorra, a small nation bordered by Spain to the South and France to the North. Spain - the 2026 FIFA World Cup champions - is serving as one of the competition’s three host nations — alongside Morocco and Portugal.  As part of the deal, Netflix will make one match a day available for free in Spain. A package of matches, including every match in Spain, both semi-finals and the final, will be made available for broadcast on a national free-to-air broadcaster. Details are yet to be confirmed.

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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 10/9 to 10/11/2026 weekend box office is Universal Pictures' "Other Mommy" with an estimated take of 27.5 million dollars.

STREAMING - From Variety:  Eddie Murphy is set to star in the "Peacock" drama, "The Chairman," from Matthew Weiner, the creator of AMC's "Mad Men."

OBITS:

From Deadline:  American actor and film producer, RJ Mitte, has died at the 34, Monday, October 12, 2026.  Mitte was best known for the role of "Walter White, Jr." on AMC's former crime drama, "Breaking Bad." Diagnosed with "cerebral palsy" at the age of three, Mitte advocated for cerebral palsy and other disabilities.

From Deadline:  American film and television actress, Eva Marie Saint, has died at the age of 102, Tuesday, October 6, 2026.  Saint was one of the last living actors of Hollywood's "Golden Age," with her career taking off during the middle of the 20th century.  Saint won the "Best Supporting Actress" Academy Award for her role in "On the Waterfront" (1954).  She received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special" for the 1990 NBC TV movie, "People Like Us."  Saint is also known for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film classic, "North by Northwest."

From Deadline:  The retired American film studio executive, Frank G. Mancuso, Sr., has died at the age of 93, Wednesday, October1, 2026.  He was best known as the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures from 1984 to 1991 and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1993 to 1999.  Under Mancuso, Paramount released such hit films as "Top Gun" (1986), "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986), and "Fatal Attraction" (1987), to name a few.  One of Mancuso's two children is film producer, Frank Mancuso, Jr., who is best known for producing and overseeing the sequels to "Friday the 13th" (1980).

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Review: 1985 "RED SONJA" is Charming and Fun

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 11 of 2026 (No. 2059) by Leroy Douresseaux

Red Sonja (1985)

Running time:  89 minutes (1 hour, 29 minutes)

Rating:  MPAA – PG-13

DIRECTOR:  Richard Fleischer

WRITERS:  Clive Exton and George MacDonald Fraser (based on the character created by Robert E. Howard)

PRODUCER:  Christian Ferry

CINEMATOGRAPHER:  Giuseppe Rotunno

EDITOR:  Frank J. Urioste

COMPOSER:  Ennio Morricone

FANTASY/ACTION

Starring:  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielson, Sandahl Bergman, Paul Smith, Ernie Reyes, Jr., Ronald Lacey, Janet Argen, and Tad Horino

Red Sonja is a 1985 American action-fantasy, sword-and-sorcery film from director Richard Fleischer.  The movie focuses on a fearless warrior who sets out to avenge the murder of her family and to rid the kingdom of the evil queen who had them killed.

Red Sonja is female high fantasy and sword and sorcery comic book character that first appeared in Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian #23 (cover dated: February 1973) and was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith.  They loosely based Red Sonja on “Red Sonya of Rogatino,” a character who appeared in a short story written by Robert E. Howard (1906-36), the creator of pulp character, Conan the Barbarian.

Red Sonja the movie introduces a young, red-haired woman named Sonja (Brigitte Nielson)  She watches as the soldiers serving Queen Gedren (Sandahl Berman) murder her parents and her brother.  Seeking revenge, Sonja trains under the warriors of the sword-master called “The Grand Master” (Tad Horino), although she has come to distrust nearly all men.  Sonja sets off to avenge herself against Gedren and to end the Queen's tyrannical rule over the kingdom.

Assisting Sonja – whether she likes it or not – are the swordsman, Kalidor (Arnold Schwarzenegger); the boy prince of Hablock, Tarn (Ernie Reyes, Jr.); and his servant-bodyguard, Falkon (Paul Smith).  Together the four must enter Berkuban, the “Land of Perpetual Night,” and stop Gedren from using the mysterious relic, “the Talisman,” to destroy the world.

I've been putting off seeing Red Sonja for decades, but because I want to see director M. J. Basseet's Red Sonja (2025), I thought it was time to finally see the 1985 film.  Red Sonja was directed by Richard Fleischer (1916-2006), who also directed the second of the Conan the Destroyer (1984), the sequel to Conan the Barbarian (1982).

Red Sonja is a charming, even quaint sword-and-sorcery and film.  Brigette Nielson is not a strong or particularly talented actress, and her performance gets no favors from this film's stilted dialogue.  Still, Nielson is quite a trooper here and gives her all in her performance.  I was definitely sold on the notion not only that she was Red Sonja, but also that Red Sonja was a real person.

Back when this film was initially released to theaters, a few of my friends saw it and hoped that Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in this film, Kalidor, would be revealed to be Conan.  Apparently, contractual obligations and rights issues meant that Schwarzenegger ended up as “Kalidor,” essentially a Conan substitute-character.  I really like Kalidor because Schwarzenegger plays the character in a somewhat lighthearted manner and also because in the 1980s, we got peak physique Schwarzenegger.

I was surprised that Red Sonja has attractive production values.  The costumes by designer Danilo Donati and the work of the “Costume and Wardrobe Department” deliver costumes that were certainly worthy of some kind of contemporary awards recognition.  I love them.  Ennio Morricone's score for Red Sonja, while not among his best work, blends the sweep of forceful action with a surprising sense of romantic adventure that tells a story as much as it delivers cues.

Red Sonja is not a great film, and it did not need to be then or now.  It is a true B-movie delight.  Red Sonja is what it is, and that is a delightful cult film for those who want it to be that.

6 of 10

B

★★★ out of 4 stars

Friday, October 16, 2026

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Review: Todd Solondz's "HAPPINESS" Remains Objectionable, Thankfully (Happy B'day, Todd Solondz)

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 7 (of 2006) by Leroy Douresseaux

Happiness (1998)

Running time:  136 minutes (2 hours, 16 minutes)

Rating:  MPAA – NC-17 (rating surrendered and film released “unrated”)

WRITER/DIRECTOR:  Todd Solondz

PRODUCERS:  Ted Hope and Christine Vachon

CINEMATOGRAPHER:  Maryse Alberti

EDITOR:  Alan Oxman

COMPOSER: Robbie Kondor

DRAMA/COMEDY

Starring:  Dylan Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Cynthia Stevenson, Rufus Read, Louise Lasser, Ben Gazarra, Camryn Manheim, Molly Shannon, Jon Lovitz, Justin Elvin, Jared Harris, and Dan Moran

Happiness is a 1998 drama and black comedy film from writer-director Todd Solondz.  Happiness follows the lives a several individuals who live unique lives and who also engage in acts that society as a whole find disturbing and criminal in their desperate searches for human connection.

In Happiness, three sisters are the center point or nexus of a large group of unhappy people.  Joy Jordan (Jane Adams) is the least successful of the three Jordan sisters.  Andy Kornbluth (Jon Lovitz), a would-be suitor, kills himself after Joy dumps him, and she spends the rest of the film looking for a compatible mate.

Her sister, Trish (Cynthia Stevenson), seemingly has it all – a husband with a great job, a big home in a posh suburban neighborhood, and three children.  However, Trish won’t have sexual relations with her husband, Bill Maplewood (Dylan Baker).  Bill is a pederast who preys on prepubescent boys, and their 11-year old son, Billy (Rufus Read), is obsessed with ejaculating for the first time.

Helen Jordan (Lara Flynn Boyle) is a successful writer who is desperate to make contact with a sexual partner who can really satisfy her, as none of her numerous male companions have to this point.  Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a computer data analyst and engages in chronic masturbation.  He makes prank phone calls to women and masturbates while he gets them to talk about their underwear, and he is infatuated with Helen – often calling her and hanging up.  After 40 years of marriage, the Jordan sisters’ parents, Mona (Louise Lasser) and Lenny Jordan (Ben Gazarra) are divorcing because Lenny wants to live as a hermit in Florida.

Todd Solondz’s Happiness takes the lives of several, ordinary middle class characters and shows how warped and abnormal their lives really are.  The film is so relentlessly matter-of-fact that it almost makes those characters seem normal, but the truth is that abnormality is their norm, and that if you get to look behind the façade, you will find that it is indeed a façade.  Some of the characters struggle to be normal (Allen and Joy Jordan), while others are hopelessly stuck in aberrant or deviant behavior (Bill and Trish Maplewood).

Happiness is frank in its depiction of sexual dysfunction, dissatisfaction, deviancy, and desire.  No matter the sexual disorder, the characters are stuck with it.  They are trapped, feeding a need, and never really seriously looking for help.  One wonders if they really don’t want more healthy sex lives or if they’re feeding the beast of sick and unusual behavior because it’s old habit.

It’s hard to tell, and the film just throws sexual failure and abnormality in your face.  There are shots of ejaculate hitting a wall and later a railing, and in one case the ejaculate belongs to Billy Maplewood, a child, who is masturbating while watching a sunbather.  So what’s the point of all this?  I think Solondz is simply saying that such abnormality or dysfunction exists, whether we deny it, hide it, or overreact to it.  He provides no solutions; in a way Happiness is a hybrid family drama and quasi-documentary about the still waters of American sexuality – whether it is a boy on the verge of sexual discovery or an old man who can no longer feeling anything, physically or spiritually, when he has sex.  If the film has a major weakness, it’s that the characters are too married to their dilemmas; only the character of Billy Maplewood comes across as three-dimensional.

The ensemble cast gives great performances, but two stand out from the rest.  Dylan Baker gives a riveting performance that is both scary and rich.  He manages a balance of fantasy and verisimilitude that is a work of performance art in creating a sick man who is despicable in his attempts to have sex with young boys.  Philip Seymour Hoffman, as he does so often, personifies the outsider scratching and clawing to get in with the straight crowd.  His Allen is pitiful and pathetic, but he possesses kindness and understanding that only shines through in rare moments of beauty, no matter how ugly the situation is.

Lara Flynn Boyle gives a surprisingly marvelous turn as the pretentious, self-absorbed, and unsatisfied Helen.  These performances and Todd Solondz’s boldness in tackling this subject matter the way he does make Happiness a winner and a must-see for moviegoers with guts who will not turn away from subject matter that repulses them.

8 of 10

A

★★★★ out of 4 stars

Thursday, January 12, 2006

RE-EDITED:  Saturday, October 10, 2026

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Negromancer News Bits and Bites from October 1st to 10th, 2026 - UPDATE #10

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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NEWS:

STAR TREK - From Deadline:  "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" Season 2 will debut in March 2027.  Bill Nighy and Rosemarie DeWitt will be guest stars in the second season.

MOVIES - From Deadline:  Blumhouse has released the first trailer for the new film in "The Exorcist" franchise, "The Exorcist: Martyrs."  The film is from writer-director Mike Flanagan, the film stars Scarlett Johansson and is due March 12, 2027.

TELEVISION - From TheGrio:  Black actress Victoria Rowell has been revisiting the mistreat she says she experienced while performing on the long-running CBS daytime soap opera, "The Young and the Restless."

MOVIES - From Deadline:  Andre Holland (2016's "Moonlight") is joining stars Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler in "Miami Vice '85." His role is currently secret.

BUSINESS - From Deadline:  It's official. Paramount has merged with Warner Bros. Discovery, both under the umbrella of the beast known as Skydance.

BOX OFFICE - From Deadline:  The winner of the 10/2 to 10/4/2026 weekend box office is Amazon MGM Studios' "Verity" with an estimated take of 32.6 million dollars.

MOVIES - From Deadline:  Oscar-winner, Aaron Sorkin, says that it never occurred to him that Jessie Eisenberg, the star of his film, "The Social Network" (2010), would not want to return for the sequel, "The Social Reckoning."  Oscar-nominee and Emmy-winner Jeremy Strong is replacing Eisenberg as "Facebook" CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the new film, which due in theaters Oct. 9th, 2026.

MOVIES - From THR:  Hot off her turn in "One Battle After Another," actress Chase Infiniti will star in the horror film, "Portrait of God."  Dylan Clark will direct from a script he co-wrote with Joe Russo.  Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele are producing.

MOVIES - From THR:  Edi Gathegi (2025's "Superman") is joining stars Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler in "Miami Vice '85." He will reportedly play a "small-time crook with big-time ambitions."

AMAZON - From Deadline:  After Amazon gave its "Prime Video" series, "Reacher" an early Season 6 renewal just after the release of Season 4, it has as given the "Reacher" spinoff, "Neagley," an early Season 2 renewal.

NETFLIX - From WorldofReel:  Director Zack Snyder says "Rebel Moon Part 1" and "Rebel Moon Part 2" need to get more popular before their is a "Rebel Moon 3."

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Negromancer's Marvel Studios Link-o-Rama 2026 - UPDATE #25

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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NEWS: 

AVENGERS - From Variety:  Thanks to the release of the "Encore" edition, "Avengers: Endgame" (2019) is now the highest grossing movie in box office history with an estimated gross of 2.925 billion dollars, which surpasses "Avatar's" (2009) 2.923 billion dollars.

From THR:  "Avengers: Endgame" returns to movie theaters over seven years after its original release in an "Encore" edition, and it tops the 9/25 to 9/27/2026 weekend box office.

DAREDEVIL - From THR:  The upcoming Season 3 of "Daredevil: Born Again" will be its last. Marvel Studios also reportedly parted ways with Season 2's showrunner, Dario Scardapane."

X-MEN - From Deadline:  Actor Asa Germann ("Scream 7," Prime Video's "Gen V") is rumored to be Marvel Studios' pick for the character, "Warren Worthington III/Angel," in its "X-Men" film reboot.

AVENGERS - From Deadline:  Actor Noah Jupe ("Hamnet") has been cast in a secret role in Disney/Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Secret Wars" (2027).

SPIDER-MAN - From USAToday:  "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" has become the eighth film to cross the 2 billion dollar mark in global box office (unadjusted for inflation).

AVENGERS - From THR:  At Disney's "D23 2026," Marvel unveiled new "Avengers: Doomsday" footage that emphasized Robert Downey Jr.'s "Doctor Doom."

X-MEN - From THR:  Marvel Studios has finally revealed the cast of its "X-Men" reboot (or at least some of it) at Disney's "D23 2026."  The movie will star Sadie Sink ("Jean Grey"), Kit Connor ("Cyclops"), Christopher Abbott ("Prof. X"), Samara Weaving ("Emma Frost"), Inde Navarrette ("Rogue"), and Maya Boyd ("Storm").  Adam Driver is also among the cast as the villain, "Mr. Sinister," with the film landing a release date of May 5, 2028.

From Deadline:  "Insiders" have told "Deadline's" Justin Kroll that Marvel Studios has found the Cyclops of its planned X-Men reboot.  He is Kit Connor.

SPIDER-MAN - From Deadline:  The final estimates for the 7/31 to 8/2/2026 weekend box office have rolled in, and "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" has grossed 360 million dollars.  This is now the all-time highest debut weekend in domestic box office history.  This surpasses the 357.1 million dollar debut of "Avengers: Endgame" (2019).

From Variety:  "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" has a 355 million-dollar debut weekend at the domestic box office. That is the second largest of all-time behind the 357 million dollar debut of "Avengers: Endgame" back in 2019.  When the final numbers come out on Monday (Aug. 3rd), "Brand New Day" could hold the record.

From Variety:  So actress Sadie Sink is playing iconic X-Men character "Jean Grey" in the smash-hit, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day."

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BLADE - From THR:  Two-time Oscar-winner, Mahershala Ali, confirms that he is not doing Marvel Studios-planned "Blade" movie.  He says that if Marvel really wanted to do the movie, it would have been done by now.

BLACK PANTHER - From ComicBookMovie:  By now, dear readers, you know that David Jonsson ("Alien: Romulus") is the new "Black Panther."  There is a rumor that Jonsson will make his debut as Black Panther in 2027's "Avengers: Secret Wars" before he begins his reign in December 2028's "Black Panther III."

DOOMSDAY - From Deadline:  Disney has dropped the first official trailer for its upcoming blockbuster, "Avengers: Doomsday," which is due in theaters December 18, 2026.

AVENGERS - From CBR:  In a CBR interview, Oscar-winner Robert Downey, Jr. talks about the pressure of returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and delivering on playing "Doctor Doom."

SPIDER-MAN - From ComicBookMovie:  See the new "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" trailer that hit YouTube today (Wed., June 17th).

From CBR:  The Russo Brothers (Joe and Anthony) officially confirms why Spider-Man's MCU origin is different from Spider-Man's traditional origin.

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X-MEN - From ComicBookMovie:  Rumors suggest that "Beef" Season Two (Netflix) star, Charles Melton, is being considered to play the "X-Men" character, "Hank McCoy/The Beast."

From MensHeath:  Lee Sung Jin, the creator Netflix's "Beef," gave "Men's Health" an interview about the series.  Lee is also working on Marvel Studio's planned "X-Men" movie and he talks about that film's focus on characters.

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ENDGAME  - From Variety:  The 2019 Marvel Studios blockbuster, "Avengers: Endgame" will get a September 25th, 2026 re-release that will include brand new footage that ties it into the upcoming "Avengers: Doomsday," which is due December 2026.

WONDER MAN - From THR:  The Disney+ Marvel Studios streaming series, "Wonder Man," will return for a second season.  Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will return as "Simon Williams/Wonder Man" and Sir Ben Kingsley will return as "Trevor Slattery."

SPIDER-MAN - From ComicBookMovie:  A trailer of some sorts for the upcoming Sony/Marvel Studios film, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," may debut as soon as next week.

AVENGERS DOOMSDAY - From YouTube:  The latest "Avengers: Doomsday" (#4) teaser trailer is now on YouTube.  This one features Shuri, M'Baku, Namor and others from the world of the "Black Panther" and also Ben Grimm of the "Fantastic Four."  "Avengers: Doomsday" arrives December 18, 2026.

From YouTube:  The latest "Avengers: Doomsday" (#3) teaser trailer is now on YouTube.  This one features Professor X, Magneto, and Cyclops.  "Avengers: Doomsday" arrives December 18, 2026.

From YouTube:  The latest "Avengers: Doomsday" (#2) teaser trailer is now on YouTube. It focuses on the Avenger, "Thor."  The film arrives in theaters December 18, 2026.

From YouTube:  The first of four "Avengers: Doomsday" teaser trailers is now officially on YouTube. This one focuses on Steve Rogers/Captain America.

BLADE - From DarkHorizons:  Rumors abound that Marvel is no longer developing a solo feature film starring its vampire hunter, "Blade," who was supposed to be played by Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali. Rumors also say "Blade" will make his debut in a "Midnight Sons" feature film.

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AVENGERS - From CinemaBlend:  Rumors abound that Disney/Marvel will release four teaser trailers for "Avengers: Doomsday."  Each one will appear at the head of "Avatar: Fire and Ash" on a rotation of one week each.

From ComicBookMovies:  After joining "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," actress Sadie Sink will reportedly joining "Avengers: Secret Wars," according to various reports and rumors.

SPIDER-MAN - From Deadline:  Sources tell "Deadline" that actor Marvin Jones III has been tapped for the role of "Tombstone" in Sony/Marvel's 2026 film, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day."  He also performed the voice of Tombstone in "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" (2018) and will reprise the role in "Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse" (2027).  Jones is also known as the rapper, "Krondon," a member of the rap trio, "Strong Arm Steady."

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MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE (MCU):

Review: Iron Man (2008)

Review: The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Review: Iron Man 2 (2010)

Review: Thor (2011)

Review:  Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Review:  Marvel's The Avengers (2012)

Review: Iron Man 3 (2013)

Review: Thor: The Dark World (2013)

Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Review: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Review:  Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Review: Ant-Man (2015)

Review: Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Review: Doctor Strange (2016)

Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Review:  Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Review: Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Review:  Black Panther (2018)

Review:  Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

Review:  Captain Marvel (2019)

Review: Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Review:  Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Review: Black Widow (2021)

Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

Review: Eternals (2021)

Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Review: Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

Review: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (2023)

Review: The Marvels (2023)

Review: Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Review: Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

Review: Thunderbolts* (2025)

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