“Birds of Prey” and the Fantabulous Emancipation from the DCEU
Birds of Prey has some of the best stunt work and choreography of 2020, and was the most fun I’d had in an action film since John Wick 3.

A frustrated jazz trumpeter rehearsing for an audition accidentally awakens an invisible ghost with the power to manipulate sound. The ghost promises to turn him into a virtuoso in exchange for his help unearthing an ancient treasure buried deep in the mountains. But what begins as a grat deal soon becomes a dangerous adventure leading toward a dark secret.
Birds of Prey has some of the best stunt work and choreography of 2020, and was the most fun I’d had in an action film since John Wick 3.
Battles will come and go and queer people do die for their identity and fights for rights, but that doesn’t mean the gays don’t deserve their happy endings in stories.
21 Bridges isn’t going to revolutionize action cinema. However, its action components are respectable. Every act is visibly clear, and as time moves forward, the film changes its conflictual rhythm.
If you are a discerning movie watcher and/or an African-American with a modicum of Black consciousness, this film isn’t for you. It would be better to watch the documentary ‘They Fight’ to see the impactful, emotional story of Walter Manigan and the young men of DC’s Ward 8.
This reboot of The Wonder Years is told from the lens of a Black man.
The trainwreck is hot but tame.