People seem gleeful that superhero movies aren’t doing as well, as if it’s fun to ruin someone’s party. These are the same people who make fun of girls for liking Taylor Swift, post mean things on holidays and during the Super Bowl, and generally are the ones I hide or eventually unfriend online.

Look, life is short. Like what you like.

It’s OK to like superheroes. I mean, isn’t Hercules and every peplum character a superhero? Aren’t comic books modern myth? Thinking that there’s only one kind of comic book movie is like thinking there’s only one kind of animated movie.

And you know, you don’t have to like everything. Every movie is not for you.

But don’t you have to see too much to get this movie?

I never watched WandaVision, Ms. Marvel or the Captain Marvel movie and somehow, I really had fun with this movie. To be fair, I can also discuss ultra nerdified Marvel mutant history like how Cable is older than Cyclops despite being his son, you know? But you don’t need to know how Jean Grey wasn’t the Phoenix but an aspect of her or even care about comics to enjoy this.

Carol Danvers is Captain Marvel (Bree Larson). She’s been getting used to being back on Earth after thirty years gone thanks to being transformed into a Kree, one of the major alien races of the Marvel Universe. After her initial movie, she went back and destroyed the Supreme Intelligence that was the ruler of that alien empire which ended up causing a war that blackened out the sun, took away the oceans and ruined the air of Hala, the Kree homeworld.

Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) is an astronaut for S.A.B.E.R. whose mother was Carol’s best friend. Carol had left her behind after promising to come back, missing Monica’s mother’s death, which Monica also missed due to her being erased by Thanos.

Kamala Khan is Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellini), a Pakistani-American who has been given a bangle that unlocks the power to create hard light objects. She’s as young as the kids watching this movie and in awe of the other superheroes. She’s a real girl in a very comic book world, complete with a family — father Yusuf (Zenobia Shroff ), mother Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff) and brother Aamir (Saagar Shaikh).

As the story opens, Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton)* has been opening portals that weaken time and space — definitely a theme in the last year of these movies — and has the same bangle as Ms. Marvel. She refers to Captain Marvel as the Annihilator and begins destroying the worlds that Carol loves most — Skrull refugee planet Tarnax**, Aladna*** and Earth — to take the air, water and sunlight.

The Marvels also have to solve Carol’s feelings of being a failure, Monica’s loss of her aunt and Kamala’s hero worship to become a team. They also have to figure out why they keep switching places like Rick Jones and Mar-Vell.

I loved the Aladna scenes, a planet where everyone sings. It was like that in the comic and it’s silly, sure, but works within the movie. Prince Yan in the comics came from a planet where only women could choose their mates. He eventually married a Skrull named Tic and abolished the rules that only women could pick their husbands. That said, you don’t need to know any of that. You just need to know that this scene is a blast filled with big action and even some funny comedy where Monica asked Kamala if this is all fueling her fan fiction.

Of course the good guys win, but the end of the movie seemingly sets up…something you should definitely see in the theater.

Directed by Nia DaCosta, who wrote the movie along with Megan McDonnell and Elissa Karasik, this movie just sails along. Does the villain not get enough motivation, as some say? I mean, Carol ruined her entire world. I saw one review that said, “hacked to pieces in post” and “We could’ve had Dune Part Two this week but we got this instead.”

I don’t know how you can dislike a movie where hundreds of alien cats eat people set to “Memory” from Cats. Or one where a singing space prince gives a teenage girl a magical fighting scarf. I get the feeling that bad reviews for this are either going with the flow or would be bad regardless because people are on the wrong end of liking comic book movies.

And that’s fine. You shouldn’t need anyone to love your culture to keep on loving it. I can’t even imagine if we got a movie like this during the 70s made for TV movies where Spider-Man had a grappling hook or during all the cash-ins of the 80s that ignored the source material or even movies where the heroes didn’t get their costumes or stories right.

If you love comics, we’re lucky to see what we love communally on the big screen.

And if you don’t, there are a million other movies for you.

Find what you love and love it.

PS: This is far enough to spoil one thing: Lucky the Pizza Dog showing up in a scene that echoes how Nick Fury — I didn’t even mention how fun Samuel Jackson is in this movie because he’s so effortlessly good — found the Avengers was great. And the next spoiler was so good I clapped like a demented Charles Foster Kane.

*If you’re wondering who she is, she appeared in about two Marvel stories. In the comics, Dar-Benn is the pink-skinned Kree who killed Clumsy Foulup — yes, really, that’s his name — and General Dwi-Zan using a robotic Silver Surfer. He was killed during the Kree-Shi’ar War by Deathbird.

**In the comics, Tarnax was the star system that the Skrulls — who are the enemies of the Kree — came from. All of the Skrull homeworlds are also called Tarnax, like Tarnax IV, which was chowed down on by Galactus.

***Aladna is where Prince Yan comes from in the comics, too. Except there, he was engaged to Lila Cheney, a space-touring musician with her band Cats Dancing. Yes, I knew that without looking it up, I was a virgin until I was 24.

Directed by Wallace Fox and written by Betty Burbridge, this has Cisco (Duncan Renaldo) learn that Pappy Del Rio (David Leonard) is about to be hung for a crime he didn’t do. The Padre (Pedro de Cordoba) thinks he’s innocent as well, as so Cisco and Pancho (Leo Carrillo) break him out. Later, when Cisco talks to Mayor Brady (Stephen Chase), he realizes that he’s really a criminal. There’s also the son of Del Rio, Bobby (Mickey Little), who needs to be saved.

The heroes are against nearly every elite in town. More than just the mayor, it looks like bank president Ed Hodges (Charles Halton) and Marshall Scott (Edmund Cobb) are also in on the crime. Luckily, they’re up against Cisco and Pancho.

The Cisco Kid Western Movie Collection is available from VCI Entertainment. It has 13 movies and extras like two Cisco Kid TV episodes, interviews with Duncan Renaldo and Colonel Tim McCoy, and photo and poster galleries. You can get it from MVD.

John Warner (George Hilton) deserts the Confederate Army when he learns that his lover Rosa (Annabella Incontrera, Black Belly of the Tarantula) is about to deliver his child. He’s captured but has two friends who allow him to escape and he makes it home just in time to learn that she’s died. Even worse, the child’s grandfather Don Pedro Sandoval (Ernest Borgnine) rejects the child, who also dies from a fever that could have been helped with all the money that the rich Sandovals have horded.

Warner then decides that all hope is gone, so he becomes an outlaw, mostly seeking to make the life of the Sandoval family as bad as possible. This whole movie is about revenge and two men who ultimately will do anything to one another even if it destroys themselves.

Director Julio Buchs also made Murder by Music and Django Does Not Forgive. There were rumors that Lucio Fulci directed this — the opening with a man cutting rings off dead fingers and pulling out fillings seems to be something he’d craft — but no, it’s not him.

It also has a great AKA title: Those Desperate Men Who Smell of Dirt and Death.

The VCI 4K blu ray of this movie has commentary by Alex Cox, which is really all the extras it needs, because he knows his Italian Westerns. It also has a trailer. You can get it from MVD.

I’m always amazed when a Tubi movie ends up feeling like a giallo, at least in plot. Famous writer William Law (Charles Malik Whitfield) accidentally kills his wife Jennifer (Veronika Bozeman) when they’re fighting over him leaving her for Kaitlyn (LaRita Shelby). He thinks she’s dead, so he does what bad giallo husbands do. He throws her off a boat and goes on with his life, working with his friend Kenny — they’re both drunk before his bar even opens figuring this out — and become even richer by writing the story of what just happened as his latest novel.

But what if Jennifer wasn’t dead?

Chris Stokes keeps making Tubi movies and I keep watching them. This does flirt with Italian psychosexual horror, as the cops are uniformly dumb and there is some fashion. But really, it’s just a dumb man thinking he’s smarter than the woman who helped make him. I kind of loved the book publisher pretty much telling William that being married made him a bad writer and that he needed to do something about it.

I’m also amazed that this has a big enough budget to have cover songs of Billy Paul’s “Me and Mrs. Jones” and Kanye West’s “Monster.”

As with all Tubi originals, this has somewhat of an open ending, so I can only imagine that we will soon get Still Here 2: I’m Still Here, Y’all, to be followed by Yo, Still Here: Still Here 3. If Chris Stokes would like, I’ll write both of these movies for him.

The only downside I can say with this movie is that the flashbacks get really confusing to the point that it’s hard to tell where we are in the story. The time and date help, but it’s pretty hard to understand at a few points. Also: who reads his own book at the bar to pick up women? The heroine of this should have known what she was getting into.

You can watch this on Tubi.