Echo Review- A Good Stopgap Measure Of A Series That Will Help Wet The Appatite's Of Fans Wanting More Street Level Heroes
Deaf superhero Maya Lopez/Echo (Alaqua Cox) first appeared in the Hawkeye limited series on Disney +. She was mentored by Wilson Fisk, aka The Kingpin (Vincent D’onofrio) before finding out the truth about who killed her father. She got revenge on the Kingpin, shooting him in the eye and leaving him in a coma before fleeing back to her home in Oklahoma. This kind of act couldn’t go unpunished and…
Well crap. I was making a whole plan to make a painting and have Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio sign it at fanexpo in Cleveland. But turns out Vincent isn't doing autographs just photos. Looks like I'm replanning the painting. Oh well.
It's a fun and inspirational working-class dramatization (imagine a more straigtforward The Big Short) of the 2021 GameStop meme stock short squeeze saga based on the book The Antisocial Network by author Ben Mezrich with a superb cast. Paul Dano stars as Keith "Roaring Kitty" Gill, a financial analyst and retail investor turned stock market YouTuber, who turns the table on big hedge funds betting against the electronics retailer. It's a stylish recreation of the real-life David vs. Goliath battle that cost rich investors billions of dollars in capital.
Premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Platform program.