Image Courtesy of DC Comics Eight years ago this site described The Incredibles as being like some sort of family friendly form of Watchmen, which is the kind of line you throw away in a paragraph and then never test. It is worth testing, because the overlaps are more specific than people assume. Two clarifications […]
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For a long time, kids’ and family movies meant fairy tales, princes and princesses, colorful visuals, and happy endings. However, cinema eventually started exploring a different kind of path with stranger stories, dark characters, darker color palettes, and an overall melancholic vibe. In other words, Hollywood started leaning more into gothic storytelling, as seen in […]
Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2007 masterpiece No Country for Old Men is often considered to be one of the best films of the 2000s, and is remembered for its tension, violence, and drama. It is arguably the best adaptation of one of Cormac McCarthy’s works, and it is easily one of the best modern Westerns. […]
1994 was a whopping 32 years ago and when you look back on it, that was an incredible time for movies. Some of the greatest films of the decade all came out during 1994, to the point where there are people who still talk about it being the single greatest year in the history of […]
IMAGE COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT The Prime Directive is the closest thing Starfleet has to a commandment. Do not interfere with the natural development of alien civilizations, particularly ones that have not figured out warp drive yet. As Picard put it in “Symbiosis,” it “is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy, and […]
Marvel Studios is going back to the spy genre for an upcoming series. Its codename hints at a new take on the espionage corner of the MCU. Spycraft and Marvel have gone hand in hand for over 60 years. Capitalizing on the spy boom of the 1960s, World War II’s Sgt. Fury became Nick Fury, […]
While It Follows might not have made a huge splash immediately upon its release, its consistent following in the years since has cemented it as a cult classic. David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 horror movie stars Maika Monroe as Jay, a young woman who learns that she is being stalked by a supernatural entity whose attention […]
Stephen Amell rose to prominence among comic book fans with his starring role in Arrow, where he played the titular Emerald Archer, Green Arrow. Not only did Amell’s performance bring the playboy vigilante to life in a whole new way on the small screen, but it surprisingly cemented him as one of DC’s most viable […]
Forty years ago, television audiences met one of the most unique sitcom characters ever to invade primetime. On September 22, 1986, ALF premiered on NBC, introducing viewers to a wisecracking alien who crash-landed into the Tanner family’s garage and promptly made himself at home. He was furry, sarcastic, obsessed with food, and had an unfortunate […]
The 1990s were a great decade for movies, with many memorable titles released in the final years of the 20th century. The media of the era is often described as being unnecessarily edgy, with too much focus on trying to establish how cool any given movie or TV show should be considered. This is particularly […]