DC Studios – HBO HBO’s Lanterns has become HBO Max’s biggest DCU TV show yet. The Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre-starring show drew 9.3 million views in its first three days and has averaged 19 million viewers globally per episode. The show opens with Chandler’s Green Lantern Hal Jordan going to Nebraska to investigate a […]
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Image Courtesy of Marvel Comics The X-Men came out in the ’60s, when the United States was changing. While creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby didn’t make the book to be a civil rights allegory – they were just trying to make a cool new superhero team at first – it ended up becoming one […]
NBC has sent people through time almost as long as it has been broadcasting sci-fi. Star Trek would regularly send the crew of the Enterprise back into the past, both as a plot device and to save money. The classic Harlan Ellison-penned episode “City on the Edge of Forever” serves as a classic example. Quantum […]
When it comes to movie adaptations, video games going from the console to the big screen might be some of most popular and most eagerly wanted. Just this year alone, we’ve gotten The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Return to Silent Hill, Exit 8, and most recently, Resident Evil. And there are more on the way […]
Image Courtesy of Pierrot Even after several decades, there’s something undeniably special and nostalgic about the 1990s anime and manga series that newer series just can’t match. This is especially true for Shonen series that have dominated the anime and manga industry for several decades. Even so, the 1990s and 2000s are considered the revolutionary era for […]
After the release of X-Men: Apocalypse, Fox was ready to reexamine how they approached their X-Franchise. The bloated follow-up to Days of Future Past was deemed too much by critics and fans alike. The next wave of mutant projects in 2017 would change the conversation. Logan would take Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and put him in […]
Hollywood has a complicated relationship with the word “remake.” Sometimes it means a studio has run out of ideas. Sometimes it means somebody looked at a perfectly good movie and thought, “You know what this needs? A remake.” And, sometimes, an already solid movie can be remade with a modern update that reflects the generation […]
Image Courtesy of DC Comics Comic books are, at the end of the day, a hard hobby to keep up with. There’s new content hitting store shelves every Wednesday, and as comforting and reliable as that schedule is, it means that every week there are dozens of comics from dozens of different companies that all […]
Image Courtesy of CBS When it comes to television, we live in a pretty great time. You can turn to nearly any channel or network and find something to watch across multiple genres. If you like comedy and drama, you can find those. Fantasy? You’ve got that, too. If sci-fi is your thing then you […]
Two decades before Steven Spielberg would amaze audiences with an adaptation of the author’s Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton created another park, with equally disastrous results. Crichton had found success with plausibly plotted books that introduced big science ideas in ways that audiences could imagine happening here and now. The Andromeda Strain was adapted into a […]