Even though we know these days that a low Rotten Tomatoes score from critics shouldn’t be taken too seriously, the truth is that it can still have some influence on whether people decide to watch a movie. However, most of the time (if not always), that score doesn’t tell the whole story. In the fantasy […]
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IMAGE COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. It’s fair to say that Deathstroke and Bane haven’t exactly gotten a fair shake on the big screen yet. In Bane’s case, it’s not for want of trying; in Deathstroke’s, it’s always a case of bad timing. Bane has been seen in live-action twice: in Batman and Robin, he was […]
20th Century Studios Today marks the 77th birthday of one of the greatest actresses of all time. If there were a sci-fi actor Mt. Rushmore, her face would be carved into South Dakota’s Black Hills. Before becoming a sci-fi icon, she was a Stanford English major who lived in a tree house and attended class […]
These days, seemingly everything wants to be a show on a streaming service, so it isn’t all that odd to learn that a popular movie franchise transitions to that world. Over the past decade or two, we have seen What We Do in the Shadows, Cobra Kai, Bates Motel, Fargo, Teen Wolf, Friday Night Lights, […]
No matter what their thoughts are on the specific projects in the MCU, most Marvel fans can agree on one thing: the casting is almost always right on target. Looking back on the major players throughout the films, the MCU has offered a solid balance of familiar faces and rising stars. More often than not, […]
It’s no secret that superhero movies have become one of the most dominant forces in modern cinema. The combination of classic good versus evil stories with various genre tropes makes for compelling movies, but the adaptation of characters who are already iconic in their own right only serves to enhance the experience for many. This […]
Image Courtesy of Marvel Since Sam Raimi took on the task of bringing Spider-Man to the big screen in a big-budget blockbuster, there have been three actors who have played the Wall-Crawler in live-action movies. Raimi directed three Spider-Man movies, in which he cast Tobey Maguire in the role of Peter Parker and Spider-Man. When […]
In the mid-1940s, Universal Studios animator Bob Clampett pitched a new cartoon to studio heads— a family-sitcom-style show about a group of monsters. The pitch sat in corporate purgatory for almost two decades until veteran Hanna Barbera writers Allan Burns and Chris Hayward, inspired by the single-panel comics of cartoonist Charles Adams and intrigued by […]
IMAGE COURTESY OF BBC The venerable BBC franchise Doctor Who has been having some tough times lately. Following a deal with Disney that initially infused Doctor Who with extra cash to create bigger-budget adventures in space and time, international ratings just didn’t match. Actor Ncuti Gatwa opted out sooner than most and showrunner Russell T. […]
There are certain things you expect to find when you revisit an old Saturday morning cartoon. Colorful villains, ridiculous inventions, superheroes arguing over who gets to save the day, and maybe a lesson that wraps everything up before the credits roll. That’s part of the fun of going back to these shows decades later. They’re […]