Sara Roncero-Menendez

Original Post Date: June 17, 2016 Read the original on Moar Powah! Netflix had a lot of success with its first Marvel show, Daredevil, which fans watched with baited breath in the hopes that it would surpass the notoriously bad film version with Ben Affleck. When that panic had settled, ...

Original Publish Date: March 8, 2013 Read the original on Moar Powah! Once upon a time, I was filled with hope about the latest Silent Hill film to hit theaters. I was hoping that even though it wouldn’t be a perfect adaptation of the games, it’d still entertain me.  When it came ...

Original Publish Date: November 5, 2017 Read the original on the Outerhaven In the days after the release of Stranger Things 2 I’ve been noticing a wave of comments, statuses and threads all touting how much better people liked Steve Harrington’s development, that he went from being a jerk to ...

Original Publish Date: September 28, 2012 Read the original on Moar Powah! Once upon a time, the 1990s happened. And man, was there a lot of shit floating around in the water then. Yes, amongst all the crappy offerings the cinema doled out between all the classics of the era was a comic-book ...

Original Post Date: September 1, 2012 Read the original on Moar Powah! Finally, right? Yes, it’s my long-time coming Silent Hill: Downpour review! Yes, the latest installment in the famous and infamous horror game franchise. After multiple staff changes and developers over the years, the ...

Original Publish Date: April 27, 2012 Read the original on Moar Powah! This movie. THIS MOVIE RIGHT HERE. Take my advice, go see it. Don’t like scary movies? Go see it. Hated Cloverfield? GO SEE IT.  Have final exams? SCREW YOUR FINALS, GO SEE THIS MOVIE. This whole review is going to be ...

Original Publish Date: August 5, 2016 Read the original on Moar Powah! Sometimes, like a Christmas miracle, something comes into your life at just the right time to lift your spirits and your hope in humanity. As the giant horror fan, this show was the show I needed but didn’t know I wanted. Put. ...

Original Post Date: October 21, 2016 Read the original at Moar Powah! Seasonal rom-coms have been all but killed by those massive ensemble cast movies that started with Love Actually. But in 1998, before all of that forced pandering, we got a Halloween themed rom-com that piggy-backed of the witch ...

Original Publish Date: May 15, 2015 Read the original at Moar Powah! DC Comics presents us with one of the most fascinating superheroes of all time: Batman. Arguably his super power is his immense wealth and equally immense intelligence, but he does not, in fact, have any super-human powers in his ...

Original Publish Date: May 20, 2016 Read the original on Moar Powah! Like good horror films, good horror literature is hard to find. So when I found Grady Hendrix’s book Horrorstörin a St. Louis bookstore, I decided to give it a try. Its design parodying an IKEA catalogue, the snarky characters, ...

Original Publish Date: October 23, 2012 Read the original on Moar Powah! When it rains blasphemy, it pours. Cause yes, I am actually writing this article. Here’s the thing – the last thing was all about Kyuubey and some of the stuff I mentioned was about basically not knowing some stuff, plot, ...

Original Publish Date: October 10, 2012 Read the original on Moar Powah! By now, everyone on the Internet knows more or less who or what Kyuubey is – the adorable looking alien from the mega-hit anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica that will grant your wishes in return for your service as a ...

Original Post Date: February 8, 2013 Read the original on Moar Powah! Darren Aronofsky, one of the budding greats in the film industry today, bought the American rights to Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue. Why? So he could copy a scene in, which I like to call “Crouching Idol, Tiny Bathtub,” for ...

Original Post Date: July 5, 2013 Read the original on Moar Powah! Back about a month ago, I reviewed the new Star Trek film, Star Trek: Into Darkness in which I said I liked everything but the ending, and tried to just pass my own biased opinion. I promised then I was going to write an article ...

Original Publish Date: June 20, 2014 Read the original on Moar Powah! There’s a big trend going around about women in film — whether they are written too weak, too strong, too much like men, too much like stereotypical women. I personally think this is a great conversation to have, as the state of ...

Original Publish Date: May 25, 2012 Read the original at Moar Powah! Two weeks ago, I did a guilty pleasures list about movies I was ashamed to like. This week, I’m giving you a mediocre, middle of the way movie which I am horrifyingly ashamed to love like I have never loved a bland horror... ...

Original Publish Date: March 16, 2012 Read the original on Moar Powah! Now, it’s been a while since they’ve produced a Stephen King mini series, so when I saw the shit-ton of advertising they did for this one, you can bet I was surprised. Then again, how could I not? I thought these had died... ...

Original Publish Date: May 12, 2012 Read the original at Moar Powah! There are just some teams that work together so well, it seems like they were born to be together: Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Abbott and Costello, the 1980s and big hair. And then there are team ups that you wish would just ...

Original Publish Date: August 3, 2012 Read the original at Moar Powah! When the Lord of the Rings were released in theaters, they were a phenomenon unmatched – even by the Harry Potter movies. Everyone loved the exciting, action packed adventures of four little hobbits, a wizard, two princes, a ...

Original Publish Date: October 28, 2011 Read the original on Moar Powah! As Halloween approaches, obviously one of my personal favorite holidays, it’s only appropriate that to match last week’s paranormal thriller from an acclaimed director with a psychological/paranormal thriller from an ...

Original Publish Date: November 11, 2011 Read the original at Moar Powah! So what do you get when you take a dwarf, a magical baby, and Val Kilmer? If you think the answer is a drunken night in Vegas, you have some issues that are better resolved elsewhere. Once upon a time, just after Howard... ...

Original Publish Date: October 14, 2011 Read the original on Moar Powah! Once upon a time, someone must have looked at people suffering and thought, “This must be captured on film!” That’s how documentaries were born. Then someone else said, “Reality is stupid. I can make this better!” That’s how ...

Original Publish Date: September 23, 2011 Read the original at Moar Powah! I was dreading rewatching this movie, more so than The Ring. I thought maybe, just maybe, I could just sort of shuffle it away for another time, maybe a year or two down the road. But guys, I think its time to admit it... ...

Original Publish Date: September 16, 2011 Read the original at Moar Powah! Stephen King film adaptations can be famous or infamous based on their quality. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shiningis what many consider not only the best adaptation, but also one of the best horror films of all time. While ...

Original Publish Date: April 13, 2012 Read the original on Moar Powah! Well, sadly, I didn’t get to see Mirror Mirror  yet because life likes to intercede and mess with my carefully laid out plans. So, you’ll get review of it next week, but today, you’re going to get something even! ...

Original Publish Date: April 20, 2012 Read the original on Moar Powah! Fairy tales; we’ve been watching them, listening to them, and even repeating them over and over again ever since we were little. And then Hollywood goes ahead and makes all new versions of them just so we can shell out more ...

Original Publish Date: April 23, 2012 Read the original on Mediacritters! “Fantasize about that wedding, four-year-olds! Doesn’t matter how young you are, you get those priorities in line early!But really now, I think there’s just something insidious about getting little girls to fixate on romance ...

Original Publish Date: April 15, 2012 Read the original on Mediacritters! When Snow White tries to save the prince in a turn about-way from the norm, he tells her that she shouldn’t, since the original went to a focus group and tested well. This is strange, meta, oddly-reflective humor Mirror ...

Original Publish Date: April 9, 2012 Read the original at Media Critters! Stereotypes – we know them, we fight against them, we scoff at them. But like it or not, they have stuck firmly to the portrayal of people in the media, especially for women and minorities. And while we know they are wrong, ...

Original Publish Date: May 11, 2012 Read the original on Moar Powah! Everyone knows the story of Snow White:  a young princess is forced to flee from a wicked, vain queen and finds herself in the company of a group of tiny dwarf miners, until her prince comes along and saves her from her poison ...

Original Publish Date: September 2, 2011 Read the original at Moar Powah! When I was thirteen years old, I saw this movie while I was flipping through the channels and thought, “Hey, I love this kind of stuff, I’ll watch!” That night I tied the doors of the cabinet that held my TV shut,... ...

Original Publish Date: August 26, 2011 Read the original at Moar Powah! Welcome to my new blog-series, Manic Movie Magic (3xM for short) here on Moar Powah!, where I’m going to be looking at classic and current films, primarily of the horror, science-fiction, and fantasy genres. So, which film is ...

Original publish date: October 14, 2016 Read the original at Moar Powah! Hocus Pocus is one of those childhood movies people associate with the fall season, no matter at what age. The Disney story of three witches coming back to life on Halloween night to suck the lives of the town’s children has ...